Anyone think the Republicans will choose a person to head the ticket who is a member of a racial minority?

I remember a world before Roe. I remember when it was illegal to end a pregnancy. There were girls who left school. No boys ever had to leave school because they got a girl pregnant, yet some boys did end up marrying a girl because there was a "baby."

A more Puritanic society insisted that the young people take "responsibility" and "pay for what they did." Not too many of these kids finished high school. Those who did finish high school rarely went onto to get higher education. With minimal skills and disrupted lives, the teens who married did not have many of the skills and opportunities to build healthy families.

During the bicentennial of the United States Constitution, many thoughtful programs were aired. Mortimer Alder spoke of the Constitution and I paraphrase what he said at St. John's College of Annapolis,

"If the Constitution were a document that was written and stayed in iron, only to be interpreted in the same old way," Adler would not have the respect for the document that he did. The genius of the Constitution is not what it was, but that it evolves - and that evolution makes it a document for the ages. That is what makes the American Constitution a Great document. (Notice that a great many conservatives are against any kind of evolution.)

Roberts sounds like the SNL Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer - the joke of the skit was that the unfrozen caveman lawyer simply unable to answer.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91gcaveman.phtml

But SNL years before hit it on the head -he was dumb as a fox.

What I like about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution was our leaders were at one time able to frame all these ideas without once ever referring to sports.

The death penalty. The right to life. The right to vote. The right to die. The right to free speech. The very fabric of our society. A document we take an oath to uphold and defend with our very lives.

Sports? Umpires? Is it such a "game" to these solons?

I guess it is.

America's health care system has been under some pressure for some time, now. Starting in the early 1980's, the phrase "cost containment" came into being in health care. What does that mean? It means trying to set a price on things.

On the face of it, it comes across as a plan to cut wasteful spending. The reasoning went that the United States spent more per capita on health care than any other nation and this was pitched as being out of step with the rest of the world. Personally as someone who has traveled in the "rest of the world," ever look at the health care in those countries? Apart from a very few, what I saw was not so good. Germany, BENELUX, and Scandinavia were pretty good - and I am not speak of the quality of personnel - many fine physicians and health care workers everywhere - it was their budgets and distribution.