Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Two stories in the LA Times touch on subjects that I talked about in earlier blogs. I really have nothing new to say on the subjects, but I am mad again reading about them.

The first is about hospitals having to settle with the city of LA for dumping patients onto streets of skid row after they were discharged. The city uses some obscure law about false imprisonment to extort from the hospitals. As I said before, these people were homeless BEFORE they were hospitalized. The hospitals may have acted on behalf of their bottom line and sent these patients back to the streets, but where were they supposed to sent them? They were from the streets! If the argument is that nobody should be homeless then it is the responsibility of the government to provide a place for them. The hospitals are already giving these people free or only partially compensated care and who do you think will have to absorb the added cost of finding a place for these people to go? The result of this and other mandates on hospitals will be shutting down of ERs which will lead to health crisis for the whole population. Shame on the government for extorting the hospitals.

The next subject is John Yoo, the law professor at Berkeley who wrote all kinds of legal opinions supporting the actions of the Bush administration. In an opinion in LA Times today there were arguments about whether Yoo should be fired as a law professor. As I said before, I don't agree with Yoo's opinions. But crazy liberals can teach at Berkeley, but crazy conservatives can't? He is not flunking his students for going against his opinions nor is he stiffling debate in his class. So what is the big deal? As I said before, if someone admitted to Berkeley's law school can be brainwashed by a professor, then he/she should not have been admitted in the first place.