Tea Bird

Jesus as community organizer

Couldn’t have said this better than Democracy Lover in response to this by Barry:

I got out my super-secret Karl Rove decoder ring (which all wingnuts are issued) and learned that “community organizer” means “n**ger.” I’m not sure if Jesus was a “community organizer” or not.

Democracy Lover:

Jesus sure brought people together and taught them to help [...]

Community Organizer mocking as cultural trope

Ambinder nails this. The joke about community organizers like Obama for elite Republicans is “Look at this Harvard-educated dilettante. He’s so stupid that he wastes all his youth, education and opportunities on the urban poor instead of using these to benefit himself and his family. After all, we all know they would never [...]

Expensive ads sell few prescription drugs

More reason for changing our current model in which a lot of the unaffordability is due to drug marketing. Apparently, they don’t even work.
From Reuters:
Expensive advertising of
prescription drugs directly to consumers may do little to
encourage sales, U.S. and Canadian researchers reported on
Monday.
From Eureka:

Direct-to-consumer advertising may not be giving big pharma such a big bang [...]