I read this over the holiday and was tempted to comment then, but instead went off to stuff my face yet again (I have no doubt I put on at least 10 lbs in the last several weeks). I came …
Month: January 2013
OK, maybe I was wrong…
Why ‘gerrymandering’ doesn’t polarise Congress the way we’re told
Biased redistricting is commonly held up as the culprit for America’s increasingly partisan politics. If only it were that simple
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/03/gerrymandering-polarise-congress
I don’t particularly like being wrong (does anyone?), but since …
Shoulda known better
Software maker faces jail because his product was illegally used
Robert Stuart legally sold gambling software to overseas online casinos but the program was used by others in N.Y.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/software_maker_faces_jail_because_his_product_was_illegally_used/
This is one of the ‘lesser’ impacts of our police …
Being fat is where its at!
Being overweight linked to lower risk of mortality
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/health/overweight-mortality/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I thought I had talked about the relationship between being, shall we say, ‘Rubenesque‘, before, but I am not finding such a post. This is not the first time …
So naive
Is your hospital hurting you?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/opinion/makary-hospital-doctors/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
The author is quite amusing to me. He somehow thinks that the massive consolidation of hospitals has anything but financial gain for the already wealthy behind it. Oh, I am sure that there are …
Evils of sugar
Is sugar the next tobacco?
It will be if author Robert Lustig, the man behind the YouTube sensation “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” has his way
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/01/is_sugar_the_next_tobacco/
I talk a time or twain about how the evidence is building up that …
Borrow now, pay never…
I was reading this post by Jared Bernstein:
A Few Fiscal Points re this AMs WaPo
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/a-few-fiscal-points-re-this-ams-wapo/
and then read this comment:
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/a-few-fiscal-points-re-this-ams-wapo/#comment-412115 (reproduced below)
…The “intra-governmental” debt is maybe even more problematic. What it really represents is money that
What is buried in the last-second agreement?
House staves off fiscal cliff, but more money squabbles lie ahead
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html
I was actually hoping we would ‘go over the cliff’ and get all that extra revenue even though it was likely to result in a bit of a …
An actual vacation!
Our intent over the holidays was to work on the greenhouse/pool project, but we got off to an inauspicious start when the first Saturday had winds a howlin. Then the snow set in (we got probably a total of 5 …