Archive for 2014
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading Private Disability Insurance: Tactics so Despicable I Can’t Believe They’re Legal Just because you’re too sick to work doesn’t mean you’re sick enough for disability payments. The thorium solution to climate change. Leading Russian historian sacked for comparing Ukraine invasion to Sudetenland Scientists Condemn New FDA Study Saying BPA Is Safe: “It […]
In the name of the market
In the Senate, Albert Beveridge spoke, January 9, 1900, for the dominant economic and political interests of the country: Mr. President, the times call for candor. The Philippines are ours forever. … And just beyond the Philippines are China’s illimitable markets. We will not retreat from either. … We will not renounce our part in […]
Music for writing about an emotionally fraught topic
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading Elizabeth Warren Pens a Book, Is Still Totally Not Running for President Elegy for a Country’s Seasons by Zadie Smith. rhamphotheca: Because if this doesn’t make your day better nothing can Spain, a developed market democracy, gets 10 to 20 times as much infrastructure … We could build it better Peter Van […]
Weekend at the gallery: Harris, Burtynsky, Carr
This weekend it was rainy, as it often is this time of year here, but I was feeling good and wanted to do something. So I went to the art gallery. I saw five exhibitions, which required a break for lunch and a nap afterwards and was a fantastic way to spend the day. Two […]
Race and class in the southern US
The laws that took the vote away from blacks – poll taxes, literacy tests, property qualifications – also often ensured that poor whites would not vote. And the political leaders of the South knew this. At the constitutional convention in Alabama, one of the leaders said he wanted to take away the vote from “all […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading “New” Migraine Drugs Migraine drug research is all about teaching old dogs new tricks. The Birth of the Male Biological Clock Maybe we should support people instead of treating them like “resources” so they aren’t left in this horrible trap The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics Science by jury is literally […]