I was all set to cite this New York Times article on violation rates in nursing homes simply in a "Questions" entry: Shouldn't a supposed "right to health care" include a right to violation-free nursing home care? Etc. But I'm changing tack after having read the whole piece: More than 90 percent of nursing homes [...]
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"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number." To review: A key selling point girding up the proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (a/k/a the Wall Street Bailout) is the insistence by its authors and supporters that the "cost" [...]
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–How are the health care socialists in two Australian hospitals rationing their scarce resources? –A Special Guest Question: What would Ayn Rand have done? –Who owns the last home run ball hit at the old Yankee Stadium? –Special Follow-Up Questions: Suppose a court rules that the person currently in possession of the ball does not [...]
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While looking up a link for an entry in yesterday's "Sunday Updates," I stumbled upon an old post that takes on a new relevance in light of the (apparently near completion) mortgage-based securities bailout and the increasing concern over the financial health of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This piece was originally published on November [...]
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SPECIAL UPDATE AND REMINDER: Today, September 28, is "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," the day when various theocrat clerics intend to knowingly and wilfully violate the Internal Revenue Code's proscription on tax-exempt institutions endorsing political candidates. The professional bigots at the Alliance Defense Fund openly and notoriously hope to goad the I.R.S. into revoking, or at least [...]
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I was finally all prepped to record some video and shoot some pictures of Diamond at the new dog run, now open after a seemingly excessive period of construction and landscaping. I wound up documenting a less-than-festive scene: Standing dumbfounded at the splashy pool (a particular favorite of Diamond's), cruelly thrown over an unclimbable fence, [...]
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Last week's CuteTuber™ discussed Twitter. So this week why not feature a discussion of MySpace?
I share Ericrants' frustration at externally selected ads — John McCain appears way too often (i.e., more than never) on my Google Ads. And I too seem to attract the pretty, um, "23-year" old [...]Filed under: Sunday CuteTuber™ | Comments Off
Some of you may remember this recent post in which I noted that some non-negative potentialities might constrain my blogging. Well, one of those potentialities appears to have come to fruition. Barring any exogenous shocks, I will soon the proud owner of a penthouse. Best part is, that it's a penthouse in my building (i.e., [...]
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Just when you think the incidents can't get any more absurd or outrageous: To say, "What were these cops thinking?" is too generous — they obviously weren't thinking at all. Which is the whole problem with prevailing law enforcement attitudes toward the Taser. The willingness to use the device, not as a substitute to the [...]
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Every so often, I see a Wall Street commentator defend his failed predictions by insisting that his analysis is indeed perfectly correct, even though his picks turned out to be dead wrong. I call this ego defense mechanism, "I'm not wrong, the market is!" But of course the market (by which I mean any market [...]
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