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Hamtramck was also the hometown of the dentist in the book and movie M.A.S.H., the Painless Pole. The character was supposed to have an extraordinarily long penis, the "Pride of Hamtramck". There is a scene in the movie where someone is selling thickets to soldiers to peer through a window in the shower tent to see the organ.

Also, the book M.A.S.H was written by an M,D, from Maine with the assistance of the great sportswriter W.C. Heinz. I know this has been posted before but if you have not read Heinz's column "The Death of a Racehorse" call it up right now on Google.

 

Kenosha and Waukegan. Not huge populations, but significant. The current mayor of Kenosha is Armenian.

 

Long, interesting and infuriating story

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lunchables-ended-school-lunch-trays-165000919.html

 

The Kenosha Kickers are very significant.

 

I don't remember which thread it was where Alma was talking about elites and college education where I responded that the jobs that college educated people were able to get made a big difference in their health due to access to health insurance, so I'm going to post this here. Lots of non-corporate employers don't offer, or can't afford to offer decent health plans, and it is all but impossible for individuals of limited income to afford coverage out of their pocket.

Premiums for family health insurance at work jump to nearly $24,000 this year | CNN Business

 

Still dead? OK then.

 

Germany, on the other hand, launched a national health insurance program in '83.

1883.

 

Germany's been quite the laboratory for social experimentation since the late 1800s.

 

And yet one of the biggest HMOs in America is Kaiser.

Go figure.

 

Them schemin' Germans!

 

It's widely misused, so I'm not jumping on you.

Corporate/corporation are specific legal terms describing a company's legal structure. It does not mean "big, publicly traded company." Your plumber, electrician, cleaning lady, all could be corporations.

 

You're right, of course. I was using it in the sense of "big business" corporations with economy of scale.