The perils of socialized medicine (and just because it's Monday)

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Anonymous said…

This story is at best decade-old error-filled news. If you read the original (try Google Translate on the Dutch: http://www.bt.dk/nyheder/penis-forbraendt-af-en-prut), you'll see that it was not a permanent injury. Contrast that with some cases under non-socialized medicine in the U.S. where guys have had permanent injury to their penises.

October 10, 2012 at 9:49 AM

Steven H. Newton said…

Is it tough living out your life with no sense of humor?

You'd probably have been even more upset if I had printed the headline from Thailand, "Hippo eats dwarf."

October 10, 2012 at 10:58 AM

Anonymous said…

What was the humor of it? You find it intrinsically funny for people get hurt? Then this story of a woman who caught on fire during her C-section should make your day: http://news.msn.com/us/doctor-not-liable-for-patient-catching-fire-during-c-section/

Or was this just the Ann Coulter-type defense of "You're calling out what I said, so I'm going to say that you can't get a joke, because of course I was joking!"

"Hippo eats dwarf" has at least 3 obvious aspects of humor: the word "hippo," the word "dwarf," and the twist (a la "man bites dog") of an animal who eats a human rather than the other way around. Even if you think I have no sense of humor, I can analyze why someone would find something humorous. Please try such analysis on your post and see if it actually holds up as humor rather than as an after-the-fact defense.

October 28, 2012 at 2:01 AM

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