The Cost of American Healthcare

UPDATE: The real answer is refined sugars and high fructose corn syrup. The following is merely rhetoric. In 2016, American healthcare spending amounted to over $3.3 trillion, representing roughly 17% of our country’s gross domestic product. Per capita, Americans spend roughly double for healthcare than citizens of other developed nations, and while the reasons are... Continue Reading →

The State of American Mental Health

So there’s been a few additions to the big book of mental disorders that mental health professionals use to diagnose their patients. Among them are hypersexual disorder, cannabis withdrawal, and hoarding. Almost 50% of Americans currently ‘have’ a mental disorder, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders #5. One of the newer... Continue Reading →

On Mastermind…

(Originally posted January 18, 2014) Reading about MasterMind brought back to me a some thoughts I’d had some time ago about a Terminator scenario where machines rule the world. I’m going to keep this short and sweet, these are just my thoughts and ideas, never intended to be shared, but I see increasingly that people... Continue Reading →

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