Archive for June, 2009
U.S. Health Care Doesn’t Measure Up
Can we please drop all this We’re #1 nonsense when it comes Health Care. Seriously, we have nothing to brag about. Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries. This report—an update to two earlier editions—includes data from surveys […]
Give the People What They Want
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwSpepjnpWQ[/youtube] Another very interesting poll is from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. (Excerpts below the jump are from the full report in pdf at the link.)
Required Reading
During the Green Revolution in Iran, you should really be reading two sites every hour: The Dish by Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic. Liveblogging the Uprising by Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post. Both have been amazing. Watching history happen there and on Twitter has been one of the more memorable historical experiences of my […]
Michelle Obama Likened to Escaped Ape by Prominent South Carolina Republican
I’ve heard some half-hearted non-apology apologies, but this one takes the cake. “I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest.” “I am as sorry as I can be…” WTF? UPDATE from Delaware Dem: And here is what they find funny in the Tennessee GOP:
Joint Finance Committee Cuts Higher Ed Salaries…Or Not
J. L. Miller and Rachel Kipp report in today’s News-Journal that the Joint Finance Committee has cut the salaries of employees at the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, and Del-Tech by 2.5%. At least, that’s the JFC’s intent. El Somnambulo will forego the usual Lonnie George belt-tightening jokes (or not) to point out that, […]
Bwah Ha Ha Ha Ha, Dumb Ass
The other day I am perusing Facebook as I am wont to do and I see that Mike Matthews has posted a note about blogging etiquette — which in itself is hysterical since Matthews skated around the edge of trying to out a fellow blogger. But I pay him no mind anymore. Then there are […]
Discrimination is Not a Religious Liberty.
First, a hat tip to Mike Matthews for posting this first. But I want to do more than discuss it as if there were two legitimate points of view at work here. Chris Theis, a leader of the Delaware Family Policy Council, says through his Twitter feed that SB121 (formerly HB5), a bill that would […]
Late Night Educational Video
This is a video by a behavioral economist about how people make decisions. Hint: it’s not always rational.
Look! Torture works
It works of course, if you are torturing them and are hoping they tell you what you want to here. Besides that little bitty nuance, torture is effective! Wooohoooooo!!!!!! WASHINGTON – Accused al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed complained that interrogators tortured lies out of him, though he proudly took credit for more than two dozen […]
Deep thought
A poor person getting over on the government for a few thousand bucks is easier to villafy than a multibillion dollar corporation
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