Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Health and Fitness

  • Harvard Faculty Crimson Over ObamaCare

    A entirely typical example of liberals who want to do good, so long as it is with other people's money.  And that reminds me of a cartoon that should resonate at this time of year.

  • Another Reason for Ideological Quarantine

    Heather Mac Donald, Infected by Politics, opening paragraph (emphasis added): The public-health establishment has unanimously opposed a travel and visa moratorium from Ebola-plagued West African countries to protect the U.S. population. To evaluate whether this opposition rests on purely scientific grounds, it helps to understand the political character of the public-health field. For the last…

  • Obama’s Dereliction of Duty Turns Deadly

    A hard-hitting  piece by Joseph Curl exposes the PeeCee Prez for what he is: a disaster whose ever-increasing incompetence is about to turn deadly. Someone should explain to Obama why we have borders and why they must be enforced.  Is he really as stupid as his actions and inactions show him to be, or is…

  • Response to an Objection to My Last ‘Hobby Lobby’ Post

    Dennis Monokroussos writes, Your post on why the left “went ballistic” over the Hobby Lobby case was well-done as usual, and I for one was grateful for your emphasis that the so-called contraceptives in question were really abortifacients, and that the latter is not a proper adjective for the former. I do have a couple…

  • Robert Paul Wolff’s Misunderstanding of the Hobby Lobby Decision

    Professor Wolff of The Philosopher's Stone writes, When we got back to our apartment, I turned on my computer to check the news, and learned of the pair of decisions handed down by the Supreme Court.  That both decisions are disastrous goes without saying, but I think they have quite different significances. The Hobby Lobby…

  • Hyponatremia: How to Kill Oneself by Drinking Water

    As a 'Zone Man,' I am well aware of the dangers of dehydration and heat stroke especially when out for an infernal hike.  Although a U.S. gallon of water weighs 8 1/3 lbs, those are pounds I don't leave home without. Some will be surprised to learn that even with water there can be too…

  • I Submit to Analysis

    Another post from the old blog, dated 3 November 2006.  A redacted version, less crude than the original. ……… The worst bores in the world are those who subject their listeners to blow-by-blow accounts of their medical procedures. Fear not. I just want to report that I underwent a screening colonoscopy this morning, and that…

  • Ow! An Ode to ObamaCare

    Allen Ginsberg's Howl begins like this: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and…

  • Obesity is not a Disease

    Liberals spout nonsense about an 'epidemic' of obesity or obesity as a public health problem.  True, we Americans are a gluttonous people as witness competitive eating contests, the numerous food shows, and the complete lack of any sense among most that there is anything morally wrong with gluttony.  The moralists of old understood something when…

  • Addiction is not a Disease

    The liberal wussification initiative needs ever more victims, ever more government dependents, and ever more sick people.  Hence the trend in this therapeutic society to broaden  the definition of 'disease' to cover what are obviously not diseases.  Need more patients?  Define 'em into existence!  Theodore Dalrymple talks sense: There are cheap lies and expensive lies,…

  • Obama, the Main Mama of the Nanny State

    Obama is this dude's main mama: It is amazing how shamelessly blunt the Obaminators are in promoting ObamaYomamaCare.  They leave no doubt that pussification and wussification are high on their agenda. There is also something incoherent  about a law that allows these pajama-clad mama's basement dwellers to remain on their parents' health care plans until…

  • The Incoherence of ObamaCare ‘Insurance’

    One cannot insure against an event the probability of which is 1. It violates the very concept of insurance. I have a homeowner's policy for which I pay about $400 a year.  It insures against various adverse events such as fire.  Suppose I didn't have the policy and my house catches fire.  Do you think…

  • ObamaCare Schadenfreude

    Foolish liberals are paying the price in coin they understand for their thoughtless support of Obama and his 'signature' contribution to the unraveling of the republic.  With Affordable Care Act, Canceled Policies for New York Professionals. The NYT piece concludes: It is not lost on many of the professionals that they are exactly the sort…

  • It’s about Liberty, not Race

    Opposition to Obama's policies is precisely that, opposition to his policies.  If you think race has anything to do with it, you are either delusional or lying.  One must realize that for a leftist, lying is not wrong if it is in the service of what they take to be a noble end.  Mendacity's affront…

  • The Essence of ObamaCare

    It is important not to lose sight of the big picture: Americans are beginning to understand that the essence of the Affordable Care Act is that millions of people are being conscripted to buy overpriced insurance they would never choose for themselves in order to afford Mr. Obama monies to spend on the poor and…