Expert, Shmexpert
March 14, 2008
If you’ve ever owned a car and never built one, you know the sense of powerless frustration when something goes wrong with it. Unless you have the good fortune of having a best friend who is a mechanic, you never know whom you can trust to fix your car.
That sputtering and clanking, the clutch’s failure to engage, the air conditioner that keeps conking out – who knows what’s really causing it? You might as well hand your wallet over to your mechanic and hope he treats it gently. What’s more distressing is that all those tricks we resort to to keep us from feeling like total rubes – getting a second opinion, finding a mechanic who talks you through the problem – may not amount to anything.
Health Care: The Joke Is On You
March 7, 2008
It seemed to be health care night over at Comedy Central’s nighttime “news” shows last night. First, John Stewart interviewed former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle about his new book Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.
According to the Publishers Weekly summary of the book:
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