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If we renamed the new site "Dropzone.commie" would you kick in a few bucks?

Sure, they don't matter, not a problem so long as you're OK.

And if it shines a bright light on insurance industry cockroaches , their lobbyists, and the bastard republicans in Congress who keep America saddled with shit insurance then good. Medicare for all, it works.

Well, current estimates are that a conservative estimate of true intersex (chromosomes don’t match phenotype — or what you “look like.” That’s a little under 60,000 Americans. Add in transgender and the number climbs. For some people, until they know someone, they don’t matter. But you probably do know someone whose problems you’re dismissing. They just don’t want to tell you — it’s their business, not yours. Especially if they think you or someone else might weaponize it against them. How does it hurt you if a transgender male pees in your bathroom? Again, finding ways to keep people out is much cruder than finding ways to include them. Wendy P.

The problem is all the suppression and hatred being thrown at this small group. If they are so small and unimportant why are so many laws being aimed against them?

But you'd never know this if you watched the ads for Medicare Advantage plans.

You hold on there, sonny! : "Your VA PCP recommends a special(i)st, the PCP sends it over to CinC, they coordinate with a local specialist, it gets done." That's what happens on the crappy regular insurance plans that's gets some folks all pistol pissed off at CEO's. I'm on Medicare and it's the best insurance I can recall having and I have always bought the best. You bypass your PCP and don't wait for approvals. X-rays, CT scans, MRI's, Open Heart Surgery, a new shoulder and on and on. Do your research and go to whichever surgeon in the US you prefer, getting 2 or even 3 opinions on the way. Never once has my top choice not accepted Part B and my supplement and I've never been denied or delayed. Now yes, I made a snarky comment to make a point or two but I'm thinking you don't get single payer health insurance.

The folks you are championing are such a minuscule percentage of the population. Not sure what the problem is. However if we’re talking about trans folks the question of male v female is more cut and dried until there is a complete transition and even then its mostly window dressing. But your goal seems to be to make it normal and mainstream. I don’t think it is.

There was a time not long ago when the dumbest people in the world were polacks. Do you see any dumb polacks around today? What happened? "Awareness?" Do you think we all just learned "poles are just like us?" You think it was... education? Pole empowerment? Tolerance? The question is not how did we learn to get over that prejudice, but rather what purpose did it serve in the first place, why was it the preferred expression of hate of that time?

Hold on. It helps to actually read the article past the headline and not embrace the noise. Beginning around 2016, there was a shift from the backlog of trying to keep everything in-house at the VA. That's what was caused veterans to die. Congress opened the purse and gave the VA a directive to do "Care in the Community" to alleviate some of the issues. Your VA PCP recommends a specialst, the PCP sends it over to CinC, they coordinate with a local specialist, it gets done. It went well, kind of a FEMA model of approving funds for others to take care of the problem. After losing so many VA Doctors to higher pay in the community, the question became, why does the VA have its own healthcare system - why not "just" use CinC. There's an evaluation going on of cutting the budget and just doing CinC. No reason to be duplicitous. Fact is - this would be an even better model for the consideration of Universal Healthcare.

Pete Seeger wrote Ecclesiates for the Byrds? He was older than he looked.

And should. We went overboard on pushing competition just as we did by, effectively, telling every Tandem jumper they aren't validated as a skydiver until they start AFF or whatever.

Unfortunately, winsor won’t be able to appreciate that description, as he doesn’t see color

Same here. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die."

This used to be my bailiwick. While I thoroughly agree with the inclusion of private industry in the space business, I do think there's a place for government, too. Because they have different drivers. Private industry is mainly driven by eventual profit; even if they're doing something unprofitable in the short run, they're looking at money. The government is currently more driven by risk aversion in the short run, but they're not as concerned with the most cost-effective way. Which means that their imaginations are unfettered in a different direction. To me, the competing interests drive different approaches, and with a new technology, with goals that aren't necessarily possible yet (mission to Mars?), and which may not be financially possible, different approaches is a good thing to have. Each has constraints; all have money, time, and the current limits of technology as constraints, but they have different reactions to those constraints. With Elon at the head of SpaceX (and I'm by no means against SpaceX -- they're truly impressive), I can see it being weaponized because of his whims. It's not publicly traded. While he doesn't have sole control, he does have a huge amount of control, and I do think that needs to be fettered in some ways. Right now, the other space companies can't do that -- they're way more market-driven (i.e. "what's in it for me today) than SpaceX. If there's a vibrant multi-faceted space industry, great. But just as the drug companies and the technology companies now answer to the stockholders way more than to innovation (i.e. they're aiming at specific sales points, rather than just exploring what's possible -- remember Bell Labs and the like?), so will the space companies. Wendy P.

You didn't answer. Cause when presented with something you thought was easy, but turned out not to be so easy you took the simple way out. You had the chance to learn, but you are actively choosing ignorance.

Sorry Nigel but you're dead wrong. Biden claims Hunter charges were politically motivated. Here are what the facts show LA Times story: "Earlier this year, a federal jury in Delaware convicted Biden of federal gun crimes, including lying about being drug-free when he purchased and briefly owned a gun while he was addicted to crack cocaine. Biden was on trial for three felony charges, and the jury convicted him of all three. In addition to lying on a federal background check form and giving a false statement to a federal firearms dealer, he was also convicted of possessing a gun while being an illicit drug user." He lied on the gun application forms....“It was not politically motivated. Politics played no part in this whatsoever. Again, we just went by the evidence,” the juror said. In September, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to all nine federal tax charges he faced, just as jury selection was about to begin in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. The indictment in the tax case included racy details of Biden’s life between 2016 and 2019 — the period during which now he admits he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes — including the hundreds of thousands of dollars he spent on escorts, a pornographic website, hotels, luxury car rentals and other lavish personal expenses." Instead of letting his son face a judge who could determine if he was unfairly prosecuted when a deal was on the table. Instead of putting to rest the whole idea of a "politicized justice system". Biden just confirmed that it is.

Great. So you admit you do not support free speech either, and want to censor my opinions.