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5 facts about the anti-reform mobs
on Aug 6, 2009 in Politics Health Care 1. These disruptions are being funded and organized by out-of-district special-interest groups and insurance companies who fear that health insurance reform could help Americans, but hurt their bottom line. A group run by the same folks who made the...
No News is Good News
on Aug 3, 2009 in News Business For the last few months, I've read very little news. The only reason this means anything is that for the previous 35 years I was a voracious reader of at least one newspaper a day, and often two or three. Part of this goes back to my days as a jour...
Where Has the Time Gone?
on Aug 1, 2009 in Internet Well, well, well. Seven months of 2009 have elapsed since I've updated here. I admit I experience the very slightest pang (rhymes with twang) of regret when I saw recently that 94% of blogs are inactive. Far be it from me to be so ordinary.It's no...
A Moment to Welcome the New Year
on Jan 2, 2009 in Cats and Dogs This is wonderful. It's Andrew Sullivan's "Mental Health Breaak" of 2008.
Happy California 2009
on Jan 1, 2009 in Legal System The leading state in the union has, as usual, a number of new laws in the new year. They are summarized here.
Goodbye 2008, Goodbye Sherman
on Jan 1, 2009 in Cats and Dogs An excerpt from our Christmas letter:As the year began we were planning for the arrival of our new German Shepherd puppy Sherman. When he came, everything changed.After a few weeks of adjusting to life with us, he took to a life of sleeping, playing...