Archive for January 14th, 2008
Health care bias
Monday, January 14th, 2008In this month's edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the book Who Killed Health Care?: America’s $2 trillion medical problem—and the consumer-driven cure by Regina Herzlinger is reviewed by an unsurprisingly biased public health researcher. While the book doubtlessly has many flaws, its central premise is a valid and correct ...
The testimony of Kevin Padian in Kitzmiller v. Dover
Monday, January 14th, 2008This is easily the most thorough presentation of paleontological evidence for evolution by natural selection and the most damning collection of evidence against intelligent design that I have ever encountered. I would, in fact, go so far as to describe it as beautiful. Two shortcomings of this biology lesson, however, ...
MSN’s class-warfare-mongering
Monday, January 14th, 2008On MSN.com today, the link to an article in their "Money" section read, "New tax break helps the richest." Um, isn't that another way of saying, "New tax break helps the people who pay the taxes"? The article is about a tax break on mortgage renegotiations and foreclosures that will ...
He Needs More Cowbell.
Monday, January 14th, 2008You've probably already read this. But regardless, I'm linking it anyway. Christopher Walken is awesome. Last Second Clarification Edit: It should be noted that this is not actually written by Christopher Walken (or at least I suspect heavily it is not - if it is, though, it would be much more ...