July, 2009 archive
Light Bloggery 0
Travel day.
Flip That House 0
The Sarasota, Florida, Herald-Tribune flips over the rocks and finds night creatures running for cover.
The fee hand of the market at work.
One more time, the flaw in the thinking of the idolaters of wealth is the belief that wealth means virtue and that the wealthy are therefore ipso facto virtuous.
Via Atrios.
California Reamin’ 0
Howard Jarvis finishes off California:
It also calls for the state to divert more than $2 billion of tax receipts meant for local governments, redevelopment agencies and transportation districts. That money would be repaid with interest. Local governments could sell bonds backed by the promise of repayments. The agreement also shifts $1.5 billion between accounts to save money and moves the last payday for state workers in the current fiscal year into the next.
The “Shoot Me” State 0
Electronic Medical Records 0
Over at Hacker Public Radio, JaneDoc, a practicing pediatrician, talks about electronic medical records.
It’s a fascinating listen, not so much because of the “electronic” part, but because of the “medical records” part. In the course of discussing the topic, she describes why doctors ask some of the questions they ask, what they record of their “patient encounters,” and why they record it.
You can follow this link or listen here (mp3–approximately 20 minutes long).
Freedom of Speech Rules Out Freedom from Stupid 0
It is to be ashamed.
Congressman Castle inadvertently gives Birthers a platform.
The crowd applauded and cheered as she yelled, “I don’t want this flag to change! I want my country back!”
Castle, attempting to correct her, said, “If you’re referring to the president there, he is a citizen of the United States.”
If you want to see the video, follow the link to the news story. I decided not to embed it after inspecting the YouTude poster’s other offerings. We’re talking serious wingnut here.
If Mr. Obama were pink like me, this birther fantasy would be unimaginable–and unimagined.
You know it and I know it.
Let’s Not and Say We Did 0
(A month later) Whoops.
So much for abstinence only (emphasis added–note that the persons referred to in the bold type are those least likely to have independent resources for learning or indepedent financial resources for medical care):
Abstinence may be effective in preventing unwanted births, but abstinence-only sex “education” is a fraud and a sham. It doesn’t educate, and it doesn’t prevent anything.
Anyone who believes that “education” based on leaving stuff out and ignoring reality actually educates anyone in anything lives in a fantasy world. Or in the Creation Museum. Same difference.
Pot. Kettle. Black. 1
I suspect that, thanks to the Previous Federal Administration, this claim carries little weight.
We Need Single Payer 0
Walter Brasch at ASZ has summed up the case for action on health care quite eloquently. A nugget:
At a public meeting, one of Grassley’s constituents asked him, “Why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance and so much better than my insurance?” He then asked, “How come I can’t have the same thing you have?” Grassley’s response was a flip, “You can. Just go work for the federal government.” Grassley, who opposes universal health care, is happy with health care programs paid for with tax dollars and available for every member of Congress, all Congressional staffers, everyone in the executive and judicial branches, and the military and their families. He doesn’t even oppose Social Security and Medicare. He just doesn’t want the masses to have the same quality of medical care that Senators have.
That’s just the intro. It gets better. Follow the link. Read the whole thing.
Stray Thought 0
Why do the persons who say we can’f afford a few billions for health care say that we must afford umpty-ump quadrillion to go to Mars?
(No, I’m not linking the Charles Krauthammer. I already have enough bad karma.)
RetroNews 0
Oliver Willis boards the time machine.
I Bet You Still Have To Change in Atlanta 0
Die and go to hell on Delta, you still have to change in Atlanta.
