Category Archives: Poltics/Society

Mad As Hell Doctors Want the Breaks Applied

Nothing but the best rhe­to­ric will do. I see a Pre­si­dent and Con­gress unwi­lling to risk poli­ti­cal ire (or anger of those with ves­ted inte­rest in the health insu­rance and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries), and do what the right thing for this country by get­ting rid of the free mar­ket health insu­rance industry alto­gether. Giving that

Google Women, Strangely Irritating

I was orga­ni­zing my Goo­gle home pages. I have many cate­go­ri­zed pages, from science and inter­na­tio­nal deve­lop­ment, to blogs and anth­ro­po­logy. I deci­ded to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”.
I star­ted the tab, and labe­led it women. I inad­ver­tently left their “I feel lucky” box chec­ked. The six sites which

What To Expect As The Insurance Companies Try to Kill Health Reform, Again

OC remin­ded me of this Bill Moyers/Wendall Powell inter­view I saw a cou­ple of weeks ago. Although OC’s inte­rest lies with the medi­cal cost ratio, and bla­ming the peo­ple who own the stock (you, maybe me), my inte­rest lies merely with brin­ging this to your atten­tion, in case you mis­sed it.
Wen­dall Powell, a

Getting Your French Revolution On

It’s Bas­ti­lle Day. I know at least one per­son who looks for­ward to this day all year long, but I also know that many don’t know the his­tory of their own country, ( in my case the U.S.) never mind that of France. For those from the U.S., it’s OK if you don’t know