Come on Teddy! Take One for the Team!

I emailed John McCain the other day with a suggestion on health care. His health care initiative, and I use the word "initiative" in the loosest sense of the word, is a joke. He wants to give people $5000 to spend on their own health care, apparently to make them better consumers. How $5000 in the hands of people would suddenly result in a revamped and efficient health care system, I don't know.

I told McCain to attack the problem from the supply side instead of the demand side. Our country needs to increase the number of health care providers. Building more medical schools would be a legitimate role for the federal government. Fund more nursing programs. Establish a new level of health care professional that would deal with less critical health problems. Find a way to take advantage of army medics.

And because medical conditions get more expensive to treat the longer they are allowed to go without treatment, the feds should fund full body scans for everyone over the age of 40 or 50.

And while we're on the topic. Teddy, if your listening, it would really help promote your party's nationalized healthcare proposal if you'd get in line up in Canada or over in France to treat that brain tumor. Come on! Take one for the team!

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I read that the University of Colorado at Boulder may establish an endowed position for a conservative thinker. Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson realizes his campus is so far left that they need to do something to preserve intellectual diversity. And I use the word "preserve" here in the same way a natural history museum might preserve a virtually extinct salamander.

Listen to this comment from CU teaching assistant Curtis Bell: “Why set aside money specifically for a conservative? I’d rather see a quality academic than someone paid to have a particular perspective.”

Listen Curtis, that argument falls on deaf ears whenever conservatives use it to object to "minority" set asides, so why don't you just stick it in your ear?

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The second writer's strike of the year is about to hit. Hillary and Barack are almost out of primaries. SNL executives are going off the deep end wondering where their really funny stuff will come from. Sure they'll still be able to pump out the lame "concept" skits, but the stuff that actually makes people laugh will be much harder to come by. Check out this clip. There's no way you can make this stuff up: