Resident Wife

Sprechen Sie Deutsches, Herr Katz?

Nein? You're welcome. So why point out that "parts of America have become so isolationist that even the idea of individuals receiving letters from foreigners is enough to give politicians the collywobbles?" Are you afraid of what will happen if the U.S. doesn't bail you out next time you have to pay Neville Chamberlain's tab? Can you say "Couldn't have done it without you?" Nah, I didn't think so.

So go ahead, Mr. Katz. Tease the bear. But don't be "shocked by the volume and pitch of the invective directed (your) way" when you do. And since you find scatology eye-wateringly unpleasant, may you be visited by the twin demons of tenesmus and fecal impaction.

Hat tip to Monica, who is lives in the belly of the beast.
Update: Fixed dead D-Day link.

John Edwards: Ambulance Chaser

He's also a hypocrite. (See also Medpundit). This guy scares me.

John Edwards wants us to know he is a man of heart. He has stood against "armies of lawyers," to help families through the "darkest moments of their lives." He is a "champion of quality healthcare," a trial lawyer who will hold lawyers responsible for their role in escalating healthcare costs, by "preventing and punishing frivolous lawsuits."

What he doesn't mention is that he amassed a substantial personal fortune by winning the sorts of lawsuits that most doctors would classify as "frivolous," and in doing so he has, along with many of his colleagues, done much to undermine the quality of healthcare.

This jackass and his ilk are the reason many OB-GYNs have dropped obstetrics, and other physicians are retiring early or moving to states with caps on economic damages. For those raging asswits politicians who whinge about lack of access to healthcare, a lesson in basic economics:

1. Sue the bejesus out of physicians, on shaky scientific ground.
2. Watch as health care costs rise.
3. Fail to acknowledge the connection between steps 1 and 2.
4. Bloviate about the rising costs of healthcare.
5. Fail to acknowledge your role in aforementioned clusterfuck. You, too, Teddy.
6. Eat shit and bark at the moon. Well, that's just a suggestion, not actually part of the process.

"Preventing and punishing frivoulous lawsuits?" Somehow, I don't think he's going to bite the hand that's fed him for years. And if when he loses, he's hardly likely to push for tort reform as a senator. Given his nay vote on "a bill to protect patients' access to quality and affordable health care by reducing the effects of excessive liability costs," I think he'll keep feeding his cronies at the malpractice trough.

N.B. In spite of this post and the one below, I don't actually hate lawyers. Hell, I even wanted to be one once. I just hate predatory, dissembling, opportunistic, scum-sucking pigs.