In Re The Heathcare Bill

(The one we'll all be paying and paying, that is). A "Progressive" columnist in the local paper, observing that the Senate and House versions are both seriously flawed, nevertheless chortles that, "entitlements, once established, are nearly impossible to reverse." Um, yeah, that's how come so many of us are set against it, pal. Naturally, he paints it as the first step in the long road to a single-payer system. It's never just the camel's nose.

Why settle for mere bread and circuses when you can have hypodermics and HDTV, too?