Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 19
October 19, 2022
Pumpkin rarebit soup
Pumpkin rarebit soup from Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest is a very nice way to use up those pumpkin parts after carving your pumpkin.
October 12, 2022
The Deplorable Index
The greatest movie review of all time… and it’s a cookbook. A cookbook!
October 5, 2022
Astounding Scripts on Monterey
Monterey removes Python 2, which means that you’ll need to replace it if you’re still using any Python 2 scripts; there’s also a minor change with Layer Windows and GraphicConverter.
September 28, 2022
Granola, the ultimate breakfast
Granola tends to be the more expensive cereal in stores, but the easiest and cheapest to make at home.
September 21, 2022
Betrayal is bad advice
It makes sense that the beltway would want to depress voter turnout by working class voters. It’s a mistake for Trump supporters to do so.
September 14, 2022
Popcorn is a many-splendored thing
Ways to make popcorn besides merely butter and salt. Curried popcorn, popcorn granola, chocolate popcorn, creamy popcorn, and caramel popcorn.
September 7, 2022
Medically assisted deaths could save millions in health care spending: Report linked on Editorials
“New research suggests medically assisted dying could result in substantial savings across Canada's health-care system.
“Doctor-assisted death could reduce annual health-care spending across the country by between $34.7 million and $136.8 million, according to a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday.” Government-run health care always seems to lead to euthanasia nowadays. It starts with neglecting the most vulnerable so that they die by default, and ends with explicitly killing them. Whether it’s the NHS or the VA or now in Canada.
Milton Friedman would not be surprised. Put the government in charge of health care, and in fifty years you’ll have hospital-sponsored killings.
"Hospital-based care costs the health care system more than a comprehensive palliative care system where we could help people achieve their goal of dying at home."
Chesterton wrote that it isn’t the big words that are hard, it is the little words. Translate the above to little words, and what you have is “healing the sick costs money. Letting them die at home is cheap.”
“Doctor-assisted death could reduce annual health-care spending across the country by between $34.7 million and $136.8 million, according to a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday.” Government-run health care always seems to lead to euthanasia nowadays. It starts with neglecting the most vulnerable so that they die by default, and ends with explicitly killing them. Whether it’s the NHS or the VA or now in Canada.
Milton Friedman would not be surprised. Put the government in charge of health care, and in fifty years you’ll have hospital-sponsored killings.
"Hospital-based care costs the health care system more than a comprehensive palliative care system where we could help people achieve their goal of dying at home."
Chesterton wrote that it isn’t the big words that are hard, it is the little words. Translate the above to little words, and what you have is “healing the sick costs money. Letting them die at home is cheap.”
Simple game menu for the Color Computer 2 with CoCoSDC
This simple menu provides one screen for cartridges saved in the CoCoSDC’s flash ROM, and any number of screens for your favorite games for your friends to play.
August 31, 2022
End D.C. linked on Editorials
“With enormous technological changes in how business is conducted and how communication works, it may be that a capital city is a vestige of an earlier era. Perhaps rather than working to fix D.C., we should work to end it… today, we shop online. We work online. For two years, people went to school online. If all these essential life activities could be moved to the internet, why couldn’t government?” Adam Ellwanger adds a lot of detail to my {% crosslink "big-house" "2015 idea of dispersing the House of Representatives to their respective districts” %}. His proposal disperses everyone, the House, the Senate, and even the various bureaucracies.
Rather than send the various bureaucracies out of DC to the states, his idea is to do the same thing I suggested for the House: keep the individual employees at home so that each department is fully distributed. This vastly reduces both the potential for a monoculture to develop, and the severity of any monoculture that does develop.
“Dissolving the capital could reduce the corruption… [and] make it feel a good deal closer to the people it serves.”
It’s a great idea. Good luck getting the beltway to agree to it.
Rather than send the various bureaucracies out of DC to the states, his idea is to do the same thing I suggested for the House: keep the individual employees at home so that each department is fully distributed. This vastly reduces both the potential for a monoculture to develop, and the severity of any monoculture that does develop.
“Dissolving the capital could reduce the corruption… [and] make it feel a good deal closer to the people it serves.”
It’s a great idea. Good luck getting the beltway to agree to it.
Three from the Baker’s Dozen
Three recipes from a Baker’s Coconut pamphlet once included in McCall’s magazine: coconut squares, chocolate cheesecake, and broiled coconut topping.
