Monday
The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care - NYTimes.com
The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care - NYTimes.com: "“People think if we do nothing, we will have what we have now,” said Karen Davis, the president of the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health care research group in New York. “In fact, what we will have is a substantial deterioration in what we have.”"
Saturday
You’re So Vain - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
You’re So Vain - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: "a crucial dynamic in American political debate: the extent to which public figures are punished for actually knowing what they’re talking about."
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New research: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil carbon, undermines soil health | The N2 Dilemma: Is America Fertilizing Disaster? | Grist
New research: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil carbon, undermines soil health | The N2 Dilemma: Is America Fertilizing Disaster? | Grist: "“The fact is, the message we’re delivering in our papers really is a rediscovery of a message that appeared in the ‘20s and ‘30s,”"
Tuesday
Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com
Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com: "a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed."
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine: "the only company whose name is synonymous with the verb search"
Group tries to lift veil on mystery in D.C. | Columbus Dispatch Politics
Group tries to lift veil on mystery in D.C. | Columbus Dispatch Politics "an exclusive residential club for powerful officials may be masquerading as a church."
Sunday
Firedoglake » “Mount Vernon Statement” Erases Equality, Rights
Firedoglake » “Mount Vernon Statement” Erases Equality, Rights: "nothing so clearly reveals the conservatives’ true authoritarian mission better than the omission of the Declaration’s very first self-evident truth: “That all men are created equal.”
"That beautiful phrase does away with the cornerstone of conservative thought, which is that some are born to rule, others to be ruled. Quite conveniently, conservatives place themselves in the former category."
"That beautiful phrase does away with the cornerstone of conservative thought, which is that some are born to rule, others to be ruled. Quite conveniently, conservatives place themselves in the former category."
Friday
palingates: Andrea Friedman, actress from "Family Guy" sets the record straight after Sarah Palin's Facebook rant - UPDATE
palingates: Andrea Friedman, actress from "Family Guy" sets the record straight after Sarah Palin's Facebook rant - UPDATE: "My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes."
Wednesday
By way of the arctic | The Columbus Dispatch
By way of the arctic | The Columbus Dispatch: "Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber-optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage." Making hay while the sun shines.
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Pimping Weapons to the World | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Pimping Weapons to the World | TomDispatch: "America’s Global Weapons Monopoly
Don’t Call It “the Global Arms Trade”"
Don’t Call It “the Global Arms Trade”"
Struggling Over a Rule for Brokers - NYTimes.com
Struggling Over a Rule for Brokers - NYTimes.com Congress shall make no law regulating the separation of fools from money.
Tuesday
Ten-dollar cardboard gecko roaches | Beyond The Beyond
Ten-dollar cardboard gecko roaches | Beyond The Beyond: "The age of robots will have arrived,” says Fearing, “when you can buy one for ten dollars that does something really useful."
Saturday
Is Soda the New Tobacco? - NYTimes.com
Is Soda the New Tobacco? - NYTimes.com: "reverse the fact that healthy food is too expensive and unhealthy food is too cheap"
Friday
Health insurers take heat for rise in profits - latimes.com
Health insurers take heat for rise in profits - latimes.com: "the five largest health insurance companies racked up combined profits ... up 56% over 2008, [and] covered 2.7 million fewer people than they did the year before.
The report released Thursday also said some of the five insurers cut the proportion of premiums they spent on their customers' medical care, committing relatively more to salaries, administrative expenses and profit."
The report released Thursday also said some of the five insurers cut the proportion of premiums they spent on their customers' medical care, committing relatively more to salaries, administrative expenses and profit."
Thursday
FAIR Blog � Blog Archive � Political Reporters Too Scared of Politics to Cover Politics
FAIR Blog - Blog Archive - Political Reporters Too Scared of Politics to Cover Politics: "Washington political journalists can't tell you what's going on inside the White House because then they would lose access to what's going on inside the White House."
What Caring for Illegal Immigrants Costs - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com
What Caring for Illegal Immigrants Costs - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com: "contrary to popular perception, immigrants actually cost the health care system less per person than do natives of the United States. Nor do illegal immigrants make up a disproportionate share of the costs to public programs like Medicaid"
3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles
3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles: "And I think Toyota got in trouble because they just overburdened that capacity — not necessarily the technical capacity, but the capacity to develop people." Scroll down to the comment placing Toyota's current recall(s) into perspective compared to massive recalls by other automakers.
Tuesday
Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us
Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us: "As Krugman sees it, the economic ideas associated most heavily with the University of Chicago — such as the continuous efficiency of markets and the need to keep government out of the economic arena — have had a broad and baleful influence on economics education."
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Informed Comment: Sophisticated Taliban Bombing, Deaths of 3 US Troops, Embarrasses Zardari Government by Revealing US Troop Presence on Ground in Pakistan
Informed Comment: Sophisticated Taliban Bombing, Deaths of 3 US Troops, Embarrasses Zardari Government by Revealing US Troop Presence on Ground in Pakistan: "Many Pakistanis believe that the wave of bombings besetting their country, blamed by the mainstream on the Taliban, is secretly carried out by American agents, in order to destabilize Pakistan and justify a US imperial presence."
Wednesday
Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown? | Autopia | Wired.com
Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown? | Autopia | Wired.com: "The survey found mortgage holders were less likely to face foreclosure if they lived in “compact” neighborhoods with sufficient public transit to make owning a car optional."
Tuesday
OIA Air Marshals Accused Of Bigoted Game - News Story - WFTV Orlando
OIA Air Marshals Accused Of Bigoted Game - News Story - WFTV Orlando: "I don't want to get on a plane with a guy who might be more likely to shoot a black guy than a white guy"
How Your Right-Wing Talking Point Sausage Is Made - Politics - Gawker
How Your Right-Wing Talking Point Sausage Is Made - Politics - Gawker: "And the Tea Party people don't like you to mention this (not because it renders their movement illegitimate but because it would turn off the people they are trying to appeal to who really do dislike the Republican party), but they are the well-funded activist arm of the Republican party establishment as it has existed since the Reagan era."
Monday
America Hits the Wall on Fast Food - Food - Gawker
America Hits the Wall on Fast Food - Food - Gawker: "In short, we seem to have reached the point at which America is so saturated with grease and corn syrup that is brain has locked into a holding pattern, unable to be influenced by even the cleverest of clever marketing campaigns. We are, at last, chair-bound zombies—and the very plastic-food companies that pushed us to this point will suffer for it."
First rise in teen pregnancies since 1990 gives agency new mission | The Columbus Dispatch
First rise in teen pregnancies since 1990 gives agency new mission | The Columbus Dispatch: "the pregnancy rate among 15- to 19-year-olds jumped 3 percent from 2005 to 2006." The after effects of abstinence-only sex education.
60 years of waste must go at Delphi casino site | The Columbus Dispatch
60 years of waste must go at Delphi casino site | The Columbus Dispatch: "GM dumped about 1,800 tons of waste sludge in the lagoons each year"
Sunday
Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com
Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com: "But the reviewer, career veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed “poor judgment,” say the sources. (Under department rules, poor judgment does not constitute professional misconduct.) The shift is significant: the original finding would have triggered a referral to state bar associations for potential disciplinary action—which, in Bybee’s case, could have led to an impeachment inquiry."
Thursday
Hans Blix | Blair's blind faith in intelligence | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Hans Blix | Blair's blind faith in intelligence | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk "A month before the war, I told Tony Blair it would be absurd if 250,000 troops were to invade Iraq and find no WMD. So it was."
Wednesday
‘All or nothing’
‘All or nothing’: "If you have insurance, the idea that whatever happens to people who are uninsured isn’t going to affect you is a very misleading notion,” Finkelstein explained. “When you increase the share of the population with insurance, you increase the market size for these technologies, and you almost surely increase the pace of development of these technologies in the future."
Monday
Informed Comment: The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin
Informed Comment: The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin: "the jihadis know that this thing is likely a fraud"
Sunday
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Wonkette : ‘They Started It:’ The Best Justification For Holy War In Ten Years
Wonkette : ‘They Started It:’ The Best Justification For Holy War In Ten Years: "This should be our only offered reason for any of the nine or ten million profound foundational fuckups currently blowtorching the country into a real-life cartoon of death"
CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names: "The Supremes Have Opened the Floodgates
By Sen. RUSSELL FEINGOLD"
By Sen. RUSSELL FEINGOLD"
Monday
Speech Transcription - Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 WMU Speech Found - Archives - WMU Libraries
Speech Transcription - Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 WMU Speech Found - Archives - WMU Libraries: "There are certain technical words within every academic discipline that soon become stereotypes and cliches. Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word 'maladjusted.' This word is the ringing cry to modern child psychology. Certainly, we all want to avoid the maladjusted life. In order to have real adjustment within our personalities, we all want the well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurosis, schizophrenic personalities.
But I say to you, my friends, as I move to my conclusion, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence."
But I say to you, my friends, as I move to my conclusion, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence."
China rising - The Long Now Blog
China rising - The Long Now Blog "the world will be a different place if China is the country setting the global agenda for everything"
Saturday
Wednesday
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Palin to address alcohol industry event in Las Vegas « - Blogs from CNN.com
Tuesday
How to stop a killer asteroid - Boston.com
How to stop a killer asteroid - Boston.com & NASA's sudden interest in exoplanets.
Firedoglake » Late Night: God’s Great Design for Sarah Palin
Firedoglake » Late Night: God’s Great Design for Sarah Palin: "Fundie conservatism means divesting yourself of moral responsibility while simultaneously maintaining a shiny veneer of sanctimony, turning a profit, and getting a lucrative job on the teevee!"
Sunday
Informed Comment: Why Republicans are Worried
Informed Comment: Why Republicans are Worried: "Republican wedge issues such as gay-bashing, cutting government services and help to people, and the promise of more wars are increasingly unattractive to the younger generation and that is unlikely to change soon."
Friday
Hospital Cuts Dialysis Care for the Poor in Miami - NYTimes.com
Hospital Cuts Dialysis Care for the Poor in Miami - NYTimes.com: "Over the last year, the economy has generated a nearly 50 percent increase in uncompensated care,"
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Adult Learning - Neuroscience - How to Train the Aging Brain - NYTimes.com
Adult Learning - Neuroscience - How to Train the Aging Brain - NYTimes.com: ""If you always hang around with those you agree with and read things that agree with what you already know, you’re not going to wrestle with your established brain connections.”" Or, how the internet makes us old.
Army Historians Document Early Missteps in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
Army Historians Document Early Missteps in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com Bush lost the Afghanistan war in 2003, according to the US Army.
Friday
Flight Diverted Because Of Christmas Ornament - News Story - WFTV Orlando
Flight Diverted Because Of Christmas Ornament - News Story - WFTV Orlando Searching for humor in the Muslim world.
Thursday
Solution to killer superbug found in Norway - Yahoo! News
Solution to killer superbug found in Norway - Yahoo! News But since there's no profit in it, 19,000 Americans will continue to die of MRSA each year.
Wednesday
Uneasy Engagement - China, Willing to Spend, Wins a Trove of Afghan Copper - Series - NYTimes.com
Uneasy Engagement - China, Willing to Spend, Wins a Trove of Afghan Copper - Series - NYTimes.com: "While the United States spends hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda here, China is securing raw material for its voracious economy."
Sarah and Her Tribe - The New York Review of Books
Sarah and Her Tribe - The New York Review of Books: "Going Rogue, in other words, is a four-hundred-page paean to virtuous ignorance."
Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com
Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com: "Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the risks to its future stability are much greater than terrorism."
Thursday
Wednesday
Opinion: Big oil gets the biggest U.S. energy subsidies of all - San Jose Mercury News
Opinion: Big oil gets the biggest U.S. energy subsidies of all - San Jose Mercury News: "Today, the oil industry receives north of $100 billion per year in subsidies and collateral support. This is the equivalent of one AIG bailout per year, every year."
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Monday
AP INVESTIGATION - Monsanto Seed Biz Role Revealed - NYTimes.com
AP INVESTIGATION - Monsanto Seed Biz Role Revealed - NYTimes.com: "''We now believe that Monsanto has control over as much as 90 percent of (seed genetics). This level of control is almost unbelievable.''"
The mystery of Zomia - The Boston Globe
The mystery of Zomia - The Boston Globe: "a place where people go to escape the raw deal that complex civilization historically has been for those at the bottom: the coerced labor and conscription into military service, the taxation for wars and pharaonic building projects, the epidemic diseases that came with intensive agriculture and animal husbandry."
Saturday
Friday
kucinich.us - Congressman Kucinich's Response to President Obama's "Just War" Doctrine
kucinich.us - Congressman Kucinich's Response to President Obama's "Just War" Doctrine: "War is often not just; sometimes it is just war. And our ability to rethink the terms of our existence, to explore the possibility of peace without war, may well determine whether we end war, or war ends us."
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