{"id":559,"date":"2017-11-19T04:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maybegoosefeathers.com\/wp\/?p=559"},"modified":"2017-11-19T04:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T04:30:35","slug":"saturday-6-pack-november-18-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maybegoosefeathers.com\/wp\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY 6-PACK: November 18, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A weekly listing of articles, audio clips, and other tidbits I\u2019ve encountered that seemed interesting, insightful, or otherwise useful \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

First, this is a holdover from last week that I finally had a chance to listen to.\u00a0 Kerri Miller had one of her usual insightful conversations with a couple of experts about the role of prescribers (doctors and pharmacists) in the current opioid epidemic.\u00a0 Not only is this a call for more responsible prescribing and better counseling when the medications are dispensed, there is also genuine push-back against the use of opioid painkillers for chronic pain.\u00a0 (Actual studies indicate that these medications are not effective for long-term use.)<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2017\/11\/08\/americas-opioid-crisis-what-health-care-providers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Second, for on-going issues from past weeks and months, Luke O’Brien’s long-form piece from the new issue of The Atlantic<\/em> on “The Making of an American Nazi.”\u00a0 Warning: this piece does include foul\/offensive language.\u00a0 It also does not shy away from clear indications of serious mental illness in the subject.\u00a0 Reading it, I was strongly reminded of M. Scott Peck’s People of the Lie<\/em>.\u00a0 Yes, this is crazy-business … and yet, many people seem to be drawn to it.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2017\/12\/the-making-of-an-american-nazi\/544119\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The House passed a tax alteration plan … the Senate Finance Committee green-lighted a similar, but distinctly different, version.\u00a0 Is this a good thing?\u00a0 Here’s two reports from Marketplace to consider:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2017\/11\/17\/economy\/opposing-views-tax-reform-and-against-jeffrey-sachs-douglas-holtz-eakin<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2017\/11\/17\/economy\/weekly-wrap\/trickle-down-economics-based-tax-bill<\/a><\/p>\n

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And there’s the latest national chapter in the on-going exposure of sexual harassment and worse by men in positions of power.\u00a0 Kate Harding offers some good consideration of the larger factors to be considered and why resignation\/firing\/being disappeared from public sight are unworkable as “one size fits all” solutions.\u00a0 I wish she had pushed a bit further on a couple of lines of thought in her piece.\u00a0 First, that there are not isolated individuals; the individuals are symptoms of a pervasive systemic problem.\u00a0 (Perhaps part of the reason men are so quick to call for the expulsion of the fellow who has become a pariah is to make him a scapegoat for their own offenses?)\u00a0 But second, I wish she would have given more attention to the varying degrees between harassment (from isolated incidents to a clear pattern) to various levels of physical assault to rape.\u00a0 It’s a continuum and the responses need to vary accordingly.\u00a0 However, there are word limits to consider when submitting opinion pieces to newspapers:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/kate-harding-franken-must-stay\/458288473\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Apparently the chief tweeter can’t stop himself.\u00a0 He really should … he definitely should not be commenting on things like the Al Franken revelation , as Steve Sack makes perfectly clear:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sack-cartoon\/458283793\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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But what else is new?\u00a0 Trump has such a long record of trying to shift blame for others, exaggerate the mistakes of others to seem far worse than his big ones.\u00a0 You’d think people would be so tired of it by now … at least tired enough to stop falling for it. Leonard Pitts explains why we need to keep the focus where it belongs.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/leonard-pitts-jr\/article185269983.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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