2016 archive
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
In the Austin Statesman, Tara Trower Doolittle exposes the con inheret in the term, “health care marketplace.”
Read the rest.
“Person of the Year” 0
Donald Kaul nominates Pharma Bro Martin Skrelli as best symbolizing 2015. A snippet:
The whole thing finally caught up with the 32-year-old in December. The feds showed up and threw him in jail, from which he’s been released on $5 million bail.
Now I’m asking you: Does that make Shkreli the person of the year or what?
Do read the test.
Words Have Meanings 0
There seems to be a little dustup involving the OED.
How Stuff Works, Bundy Bund Dept. 0
Update, after This Was Drafted*:
It appears that the Feds were using an enforcement technique known as “Give ‘Em Enough Rope . . . .”
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*You didn’t think I do all this in real time, did you?
I write a bunch of stuff, then I go off and do other stuff. Then I write stuff. It’s the Great Cycle of Drivel.
Twits on Twitter 0
Occasionally I toy with the notion of signing up for Twitter, then I think, “Heavens, no. Why invite more stupid into my life?”
The Rich Are Different from You and Me 0
They don’t have to pay their fair share.
The Pervy Party 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness seals friendships.
The victim — whose name has not been released — suffered a single gunshot wound to the leg, Murphree said. . . .
Witnesses told police the suspect was holding the gun when it fired and hit the victim, Murphree said. She noted the suspect and victim know each other.
Tales of the Bundy Bund 0
The Bundy allies are rallying in the only way they know.
The occupiers “are threatening the state, they are threatening the refuge, and they are threatening the life of someone we love in a very real way,” Klonoski said.
Flint-Hearted, Reprise 0
After listing what he considers the five most idiotic things said about the poisoning of Flint, Michigan, (follow the link for the list), Dick Polman has the unmitigated gall to wonder about priorities:
Care to guess the salary of Jim Harbaugh, the University of Michigan football coach? What he pulls down, over two years, in public money? $14 million.