I understand why even programmers are wary of and use Git in a rote way: that damn thing is like using a chainsaw when you need a butter knife.

Never know when that thing is going to sling back and slice your face off.

Nowhere in this thought turd does Kevin Drum manage to explain why our health care is so much more expensive than the rest of the Western world for worse outcomes.

But let’s avoid Drum’s obfuscation and calumny to look at the obscene costs of our current system.

How much is good health care worth to you? $8,233 per year? That’s how much the U.S. spends per person.

Worth it?

That figure is more than two-and-a-half times more than most developed nations in the world, including relatively rich European countries like France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. On a more global scale, it means U.S. health care costs now eat up 17.6 percent of GDP.

Drum and his fellow pseudo-liberals have now firmly united against single payer, and are intent on demonstrating how it just cannot work (despite it working fine in many other countries for many years). This lack of acknowledgement of basic facts will continue apace.

According to Drum, “health care is expensive” and we should just “deal with it.”

The rest of the world — which doesn’t exist when convenient for people like Drum — doesn’t agree.

What would I do without the intellectual shoddiness and frailty of people like Kevin Drum and most of the Crooked Timber crew? I’d barely have a thing to write about.

Some dark facts about human nature: most men will sacrifice nearly every other personality quality especially over the short term for beauty in a partner, and will excuse any transgression of the pulchritudinous, no matter how heinous.

And most women really are significantly more attracted to those men (bad boys) with the “dark triad” of personality disorders: narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.

(And don’t tell me that latter is not true. I possess many of those traits and that’s the only reason I was attractive to many women! Though luckily that is not what attracted my current partner and I am a better person for it.)

Men and women are maladapted in so many ways to our current society. Choices we see are an expression of that.