This Modern World: Healthcare Through The Ages - Bleeding With Leeches...

[Hissyspit]

Once upon a time, physicians figured out they could charge more to bleed their patients with leeches ...

Tom Tomorrow reruns a 'toon from July 2001 he says 'due to renewed timelines.'

[Faygo Kid]

1. Excellent. As usual.

"This Modern World" nails it every time.

[Glorfindel]

2. Brilliant, and exactly right!

Thanks for posting.

[msongs]

3. lol our government deliberately sets up a system where we are screwed out of health care --->

because politicians are prostitutes on the take from their corporate masters.

Msongs

[indepat]

11. Tantamount to saying the Congress is venal, corrupt, and self-serving

:P

[onehandle]

4. He says in the margin that this 'toon originally ran in 2001.

Renewed timeline indeed.

[Hissyspit]

6. I like how he has broken free from the four-panel restriction. He's a lot more

innovative with his compositions.

[surrealAmerican]

5. k & r

for Tom Tomorrow

[Gabi Hayes]

7. not seeing anything but a box with a little red x in it. jpg of cheney?

any links to the tomorrow cartoon?

thx

[Hissyspit]

10. Here you go, Gabi:

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/09/15/tomo/

Nice to see you, where've you been?

[gratuitous]

8. An eight year old cartoon

And the Party of No has the gall to talk about the "rush" to reform health care. Yeah, this is one of those rare "rush" jobs that takes seven or eight decades. But meddling in the Schiavo affair, shit, the Republicans can't act fast enough! They even called Commander Bunnypants home early from one of his interminable vacations just to sign the legislation.

Thankfully, the snoozing bulldogs of our Fourth Estate have no memory of anything, so they dutifully report Republican talking points about a "rush" to reform health care with absolutely no trace of irony or cynicism.

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. marvelous -- KICK AND RECOMMENDED

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. "A poultice of manure."

Have truer words ever been spoken?