So, I went blackberry picking this weekend, and now I have an unreasonable number of blackberries in...
Month: August 2009
It’s taken me awhile to get to this – mostly because I’ve been (unusually) busy with real...
[UPDATED] So, I mostly agree with the sentiment in this column, and find the dismissiveness (un-American?) displayed...
is pretty amazing in a shameless sort of way.
Everyone should read Ezra Klein’s interview with Sen. Lindsay Graham. It’s good, and it should briefly give...
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats Ballad I. O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone...
Rick Moran, on the demagoging of the health care debate by both sides: “We have entered a...
Nathan has returned to blogging with quite a bloggy manifesto on some of my favorite topics –...
1. If baryons and electrons and some other of the subatomic particles are only a small percentage...
Matt Yglesias points us to this chart, which is depressing enough on its own: Then, both he...
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a great tool to compare all the various health care proposals side...
“Let’s just say that this is no way for a civilized Republic to conduct its business.” ~...
TWO UPDATES, SEE BELOW: A common refrain I keep hearing for why Wyden-Bennett would have no chance...
Reuters takes the opposite approach from the AP or NewsCorp. Good for them. Writes Chris Aheam:
What do we mean when we talk about the “rising costs of health care” in America? It’s...
One thing I’ve tried to do with regularity at my own digs is a “Friday Genius Ten.” ...
The Wyden-Bennett “Healthy Americans Act” really is the most sensible health-care reform bill out there right now. ...
Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen C. referred to Fancy Farm, KY (it has to do...
How did I never hear of this book before? R. Scott Bakker’s first novel and the first...
