<img attachment="lina_khan.jpg" align="left" caption="Lina Khan">I've heard the argument that Lina Khan at the FTC is really good and making good guidelines. Fair enough. She's not an elected official. She could work for any administration. The argument is, of course, that <i>Trump</i> wouldn't hire her, so we therefore need to get Biden or Harris back in there, so that she can continue her good work. This is ridiculous. We have to put up with Biden or Harris so we can have a working FTC? That's the argument? That's getting toward the bottom of the barrel of the "lesser evil" argument: in order to get fewer hospital mergers, you have to elect a drooling (possibly dim, possibly senile) warmonger who generally <i>does</i> kowtow to big business, but seems to have hired Lina Khan <i>by mistake</i>, so you also not only have to hope that he or she doesn't forget who Lina is and fire her, or change his or her mind because of a spectacular donation (and fire her), or engulf the world in conflagration because his or her foreign policy is maniacal, immoral, and full-on empire. Keep telling me we're in good shape and that things are looking up. At the very least, you'll start to believe it.