Yes:Fun fact the media never tells you: as a % of GDP, the US has greater public expenditures on health care than the UK does. Not total expenditures, we know that. Public expenditures. More big government health care in the US than the UK.And even the...
Like Kerry Howley, I strongly recommend this story about Warren Hern, which is both fascinating in itself and provides grim reminders (in the wake of the Tiller muder) of how.
Huh; seems like things are a bit slow around here. Some linkage:Axe talks Tanks!Think about five things you like about your health care, and five things you don't.African veterans of.
Les Paul, R.I.P.
A new picture based on the Diary of Anne Frank will be written and directed by David Mamet. Roy gets a set of steak knives for getting us an advance.
Shorter Cintra Wilson: "They let non-rich people and fat people (by which I mean people who aren't a more morally appropriate size 2, like myself -- have I mentioned that.
I like Doug Glanville's op-ed on the options open to professional athletes after their careers end; it helps to clarify (which is more important than to "dispel") the "set for life" perception of how retired athletes live. It's obviously more complicated than the two poles we're...
A good list, although I think the Beltre contract was OK (as Posnanski half-concedes.) Two apercus I particularly endorse:"Here’s my thing about J.P. Ricciardi, the thing that really baffles the.
Seth Jones and I talked about his book Graveyard of Empires last week on Bloggingheads:...sadly, I forgot my hat in Cincinnati. Hopefully I'll have an appropriate substitute by the next.
Shorter Wojo:If Derek Jeter is discovered to have used PEDs, I, too, will pump my fist -- into my own broken heart!Arguably the worst part of drug war moralism (Sporting Division) is that people like Gene Wojciechowski are permitted to earn a living by repeating the...
I think this is definitely correct. I didn't understand why Obama was appointing viable Senate candidates at the time, and it looks even worse in retrospect. (Although the subsequent analysis.
Suzy Khimm offers some thoughts on the presence of LaRouchites along the midways of various health care town halls.The LaRouchies' logic seems virtually indistinguishable from the current right-wing fear-mongering. "Citizens.