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...Universal coverage is a moral imperative, but numbers and charts must follow rather than precede its implementation. It should be reassuring that imperatives of efficiency cannot raise public ire. It is a sign that means-end rationality has not completely dominated public discourse. Hopefully, it also means that soon the emergency room will no longer be the first and last resort for America’s uninsured...
...about a girl: Their emotional availability or if they’re dating somebody else. Your best pick-up line: So, how’s your boyfriend these days? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: You’d be surprised to hear the fearful moral depths to which I stooped to get that last passing grade in AP Environmental Science senior year of high school. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: “I fancy you.” Favorite childhood toy: LEGOs, Beast Wars Transformers, and throwing a baseball...
...country. Australia, by contrast, began as the continent of sin, the dump for English criminals. Australians, unlike Americans, have never felt they had a mission or a message for a fallen world. There is no doctrine of Australian exceptionalism. If this deprived us of the heights of American moral expectation, it spared us from the anguish of American disappointment. Not a bad trade...
...although Australians have their doctrinal and moral disputes, they don't swing as fiercely between extremes of private indulgence and public penance as Americans do. The idea that the whole nation and its media could be convulsed and obsessed by a Prime Minister's hole-in-the-corner affair with a pudgy little Canberra intern is, to say the least, implausible. We are realists, not idealists...
...metaphor of all wealth production is gambling, and Australians are among the most shamefully obsessed gamblers in the world. We have 20 times as many "pokies"--poker machines--per person as Americans. Our styles of wealth production enforce the belief that superiority is luck and only luck: no moral lessons apply. The Puritan impulse toward social responsibility that created the American system of educational, cultural and scientific philanthropy hardly exists in Australia...