From The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC’s) Website: Health insurance coverage improves access and quality of medical care and can contribute to the overall health of Americans. According to 2005 data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey, 14.8% (43.6 million) of Americans are uninsured. 19.8% (36.5 million) [...]
At the start of this summer, I took a break from my web talk show and went to Cozumel, Mexico, where I stayed at the house of a friend for 10 perfectly awesome days. While I was there, I made sure to check out as much of the local culture and favorite places as possible, [...]
I lost my father to cancer last year, and it sucked. Before then, I did not know what it was like to not only lose someone, but to lose someone to a disease that kills them slowly, painfully, while all you can do is watch. Not fun. Since it happened, more and more people that [...]
If you’ve tooled around this site for a page or two, you’ve probably picked up that I have a liberal viewpoint, that I’m an open-minded, countercultural kind of girl concerned with social issues. Low on the bad –isms, like ageism, sexism, and racism. That is to say, I don’t hold much prejudice against pretty much [...]
I absolutely love a good steak now and then. Now, it’s become a social responsibility issue, though, this eating of the steak. Here are some facts about how crappy the Livestock Industry is for the environment (with the US being the biggest meat-eating country on the planet, no less): Livestock now use 30 percent of [...]
We all know life is pretty short, right? And those of us that don’t, well: they’ll find out soon enough. With my short time on the planet, it seems like the most I can hope for is to make some positive difference through social commentary, alternative, news coverage, or other counterculture efforts before I check [...]
I don’t know if it’s only my good fortune or what, but a lot of people write in to my web talk show and try to convert me to people write in to my web talk show and try to convert me to their religion. Isn’t that awesome? No. It’s not. Please, everyone who does [...]
This is a really personal video, k? So be gentle with your commentary. K? So, I recently lost a loved one to a very mean and ugly disease. It rocked my world. I’d like to say that I consider myself privileged overall, though, to have made it this far in life and to only be [...]
The meaning of a person’s life is a very individual kind of thing, just like the person his or herself. So I’m not going to try to ascribe a meaning that is right for all humankind here in this personal video. That would be dumb. I try not to be dumb, though sometimes it doesn’t [...]