Essays · Strangers

Debating Health Care for a Few Hundred Million People

Others have written much about the current U.S. health care debate, but today I wanted to spend some time discussing it as well, with the special focus that this site brings: people acting like jerks about something. In this case, about health care access. The U.S. system is definitely broken. It doesn’t work well for… Continue reading Debating Health Care for a Few Hundred Million People

Advice · Strangers

Getting Unwelcome Responses on Social Media

I’m fairly active on social media, particularly Twitter, and even some dating sites. I get a lot of messages from people that aren’t always welcome. Sometimes there are criticisms and accusations about the things I’ve said I like, but then there are also advances that get rapidly visually explicit and disturbing even when I try… Continue reading Getting Unwelcome Responses on Social Media