Not even a public option here, despite from 2000 to 2007, profits at the 10 largest publicly-traded health insurance companies went up 428 percent. CEOs at these companies made an average of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insurance premiums have more than doubled — a rate three times faster than wage …
My Tuesday tankful of tidbits and annoyances.
1. Thanks to an anonymous tipster, who for some unknown reason was looking up wonderlandornot/images, I discovered my old Flickr account, titled wonderlandornot. The contents are meager — a couple of shots from Oahu in 2006. I can’t access the account, because it is old, hasn’t been utilized in …
In a rare, if ever, interview, former Army lieutenant William Calley, who was convicted on 22 counts of murder for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, sort of apologized for the first time last week, at a Columbus, Georgia, Kiwanis Club where he was speaking.
“In March 1968, U.S. soldiers gunned down hundreds of civilians …