Dr. Forbush Thinks

Crazy Health Care

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:20:40 PDT

It drives me crazy every time I hear someone utter the factually incorrect statement that the US has the greatest healthcare in the world. I heard it again today on a radio talk show and the comment wasn’t even challenged. Of course this didn’t surprise me, because this assertion is never...

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Multiculturalism

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:53:52 PDT

In order to understand multiculturalism we need to understand culture. Culture is a word that gets thrown about by the common man and has a specific definition by anthropologists. But, culture is a confusing concept to understand from a member of a culture. And, of course, everyone of us is a...

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Value, Time and Money

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:58:07 PDT

In the innocent times of childhood we once believed that money was the reward for hard work. Based on the idea that the more hours that you worked then the more money you earned. But, those were innocent and naïve times. Many have come to believe that fortunes were made by other means. Making a...

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Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:55:00 PDT

Last week I took a trip to France. When I got home I proceeded to tell people about my trip. As I was telling someone about the trip she had a very bipolar response. “How wonderful to have the opportunity to visit Paris -- not that I like the French.” France, in my opinion, is a wonderful country....

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Trial and Error

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:06:49 PST

One of the major assumptions that we have in a capitalist free market system is that people acting in their self-interest will react for the greater good of our society. This assumption is flawed in several ways. Let us look at an interesting example. During the 1970s an interesting phenomenon...

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Guilt By Association?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:05:06 PDT

One of the fundamental differences between eighteenth century European Law and American Law is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The Bush administration has fought continuously over the last seven years to erode this fundamental right. The Bush crew has used fear to gradually work...

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Tough Times

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:22:02 PDT

When times get tough, the tough get going. This truism might be just be right, or it might be another piece of dogma used to summon the unity of the people to work together. Either way, it would be nice to have one of leaders step up and tell us that we need to work together to solve this...

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Both Sides of the Greed Equation

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:17:25 PDT

I have written about greed before, and I am sure that I’ll write about it again. In capitalism the central motivation is the magic belief in self-interest. I have been told by the loyalists on the right that greed is somehow magic. Greed drives the markets and those markets will be driven by greed...

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Trust Me

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:50:32 PDT

I don’t know if there really was a time when our government actually worked for us and not for the special interests. But, I do know that there were times when national security took precedence over those lobbyists that were putting all that money in our leader’s pockets. There always seemed to be...

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Myth and Magical Thinking

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:03:55 PDT

Since the nomination of Sarah Palin as the new standard barer of the Republican Party I have been struggling with a way to collect my thoughts and express them in a coherent way. I have been struck with many emotions and thoughts as the activities have played out over the last two weeks. Each time...

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Straight Talk or Fast Talk?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:12:57 PDT

Most Americans hate hypocrisy. “Catcher in the Rye,” struck a chord with Holden Caufield’s teenage discovery of the abundance of hypocrisy in everyday life. I have often wondered if the generic conservative’s objection to the novel lies more with this discovery than with the occasional use of...

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Why Sarah Palin?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:39:59 PDT

Dan Quayle, Gerald Ford, Spiro Agnew and now Sarah Palin - Why do Republicans choose such horrid Vice Presidents? Even though Richard Nixon said “Just don’t ever put me on the couch,” in reference to his fear of what he might find out if he were psychoanalyzed I will attempt to ask and answer some...

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Expectations and Economics

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:24:41 PDT

It’s not what you have, but what you believe you can have that drives the American economy. We should all understand that Republican fiscal ideology is focused on benefits for the wealthy. It costs the wealthy too much to help out those down on their luck, so we shouldn’t do it is the Republican...

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Religion and Politics - Who Wins?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:10:02 PDT

Religion is serious stuff. Politics is also serious stuff. Faith is the belief in something without having proof. Once you believe in what you can not see or hear or even imagine everything else becomes so much easier to ignore, deny or denounce. Politics is using what you have to do what you...

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Know Your Enemy

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:51:44 PDT

After the attacks on 9/11/2001 many Americans pulled their heads out of the sand and began to ask why anyone would want to do anything so horrible to us. Bill Maher famously asked the same questions in what seemed to a too sympathetic way, by going against the common wisdom of the time. The common...

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Voraciously Vitriolic Vipers

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:46:33 PDT

After the 2006 congressional races I breathed a sigh of relief. Up until that point the Republican Party had driven the nation to the edge of an abyss. They were destroying the country bit by bit, and our only hope was to win at least one house of congress to stop the destruction. And, even with...

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Who Stole the Wheels from the Straight Talk Express?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:32:41 PDT

I used to admire John McCain. At one time I thought that we had political leader that would stand up for the American people. I know that he was a bit bitter when Karl Rove spread all those rumors about his mixed race child in South Carolina way back in 2000. I could see the anger in his eyes for...

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Life is Not Always Easy

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:10:21 PDT

It wasn’t too long ago that I heard people, mainly conservatives, complaining that the textbooks used in the schools were too biased. Many of these people were opposed to the idea that evolution should be considered as even a remote explanation for the why we have life on this planet in the current...

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When Markets Don’t Work

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:56:02 PDT

Today Paul Krugman once again points out that the Republican party has only two solutions to problems - Tax cuts and deregulation or ignoring the problem hoping that it will go away. Of course ignoring a problem and hoping that it will go away is not a solution. But if you can convince enough...

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Death and Taxes

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:30:07 PDT

“Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin. But, since taxes are so certain it would make sense that we should understand the point of taxes. The conservatives have been crying for years now that our taxes are too high and they should be cut. The limit of...

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The Health of a Nation

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:34:40 PDT

I am going to concede right here at the beginning that what I am about to say is based on nothing more than the view of a couple of pictures, conjecture and imagination. However, just like there may be no truth in it at all there also exists the possibility that there is some truth. I will make my...

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Something About Barack

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:53:22 PDT

Just after Christmas Barack Obama won Iowa in the Democrat’s primary. Iowa was the culmination of months (almost years) of campaigning. Anyone living in Iowa with a bit of gumption could basically go up to any candidate and shake their hand and ask them difficult questions. This personal campaign...

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The Devil Inside

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:35:11 PDT

One fundamental difference between social conservatives and social liberals pertains to what makes a person “bad.” Are people born bad or good? Can good people become bad people? Can bad people become good people? What does it take for people to be good or to be bad? Jesus actually spoke to this...

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The Center of the Country

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:35:54 PDT

Last week I ventured on a business trip to the middle of the country. St. Louis is a major American city based on the fact that it offers major league sports teams. However, when you compare the city of St. Louis to many other American cities it seems to be a little more “laid back.” When I...

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A Tale of Two Wars

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Forbush) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:06:55 PDT

What should America’s foreign policy be? I just finished “reading” “Charlie Wilson’s War.” I actually listened to the audio version of it on my way back and forth to work over the last week. I highly recommend it to anyone who wonders how our government works. The book details quite a few examples...

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