The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Startup finds niche in digitizing physical mail
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/26/tech/innovation/outbox-mail-service/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5
An interesting idea, I can see some real value for it, particularly if you are highly mobile and don’t want your mail to get lost trying to keep up with you. It …
Airfares Down 50 Percent Since 1978, Study Shows
http://www.askthepilot.com/cheaper-and-safer/
I choked a bit when I first read the title, but gave it a chance (I am a regular reader of the irregular (as I am becoming) Ask The Pilot) and …
Does the Vaccine Matter?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/does-the-vaccine-matter/307723/
Personally I never felt the flu vaccine was worth a damn because every time I got one I felt like total crap for several days and didn’t see how there was any sort of payoff …
Americans’ 90% tax rate
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/08/opinion/mccaffery-marginal-tax-rates/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
I knew things were bad at the lowest level, but I always get surprised at how bad it really is. In particular the rather substantial economic disincentive to getting married. There has always been talk …
Obamacare: A Deception
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/02/03/obamacare-a-primer/
For those of you liberals who think that Obamacare is the greatest thing since sliced bread (you are totally wrong) and for those conservatives that think Obamacare is a socialist gift to the poor (ditto), here …
The Youth Unemployment Crisis: A Fix that Works and Pays for Itself
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/02/the-youth-unemployment-crisis.html
Apprenticeship can be a great idea. However, it is not very different in concept from indentured servitude and that is subject to a lot of potential for …
I read about Dell’s decision to take his company private and did some head scratching over it. Generally speaking, the only point in going private is to be able to avoid the costs of regulation (which are non-trivial; for a …
Secrets and Lies of the Bailout
The federal rescue of Wall Street didn’t fix the economy – it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104
I have …
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 …
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 …