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A little more than 24 hours to go until people blow shit up all across America--in a good way. Until then, here are some links to keep you busy:
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- Krugman Is Ready to Have His Creationist Epiphany
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July 3, 2009
Healthcare: It Takes a Socialist?
Category: Democrats • Healthcare
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a letter (and I encourage others to do the same) calling for a strong public option in whatever healthcare legislation is passed. In the letter, I described the frustration that many rank-and-file Democrats have towards their elected leaders (and yes, it's not the 'base'; >80% of Democrats is nearly the whole damn party--and some of the dissenters oppose the public option because they feel it's too weak):
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July 2, 2009
More Second-Derivative Flights of Fancy: The Home Price Edition
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Housing prices suck. In fact, they suck worse than they did last month. But the good news is that the rate at which the suckitude is increasing is slowing (this is the second derivative). From The Washington Post:
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July 1, 2009
Anti-Abortion Means Anti-Birth Control
Category: Civil Liberties • Conservatives
Nobody could have predicted this (italics mine):
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June 30, 2009
Tuesday Links
Category: Lotsa Links
Still cloudy and cruddy in Boston, so here are some links for you. Science:
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A Story About Why Froomkin Was Let Go, but Ezra Klein Remains
Category: Democrats • News Media
It's simple--as long as one doesn't criticize the press corps from the left (doing it from the right is ok and accepted--you get to be the house liberal. Bob Somerby:
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June 29, 2009
Krugman Is Ready to Have His Creationist Epiphany
Category: Creationism • Economics • Environment • Fucking Morons
Over the weekend, I had started writing a post titled "When Will [economist Paul] Krugman Have His Creationist Epiphany?" It was inspired by a comment left on a Krugman post about "the Great Ignorance which seems to have overtaken much of the economics profession -- the "rediscovery" of old fallacies about deficit spending and interest rates, presented as if they were deep insights, the bizarre arguments presented by economists with sterling reputations."
While Krugman argues this is due to flat-out ignorance, a commenter made a great point (italics mine):
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The Culture of Caution at NIH and Academia's Role
Category: Antibiotics • Cancer • Funding • NIH
Yesterday's article by Gina Kolata about cancer research mistakes a symptom--caution due to a perceived lack of funding--for the disease, which is the symbiosis between academia and the NIH. Don't get me wrong, a lot of research should involve academics. But the priorities of NIH have become overwhelmed by the priorities of academia. I think Kolata's dead on target with this part of her article (italics mine):
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June 28, 2009
Oh, This Will Be Fun: Kolata on the War on Cancer
Category: Cancer • Funding • NIH
I'll have more to say about this tomorrow, but I wanted to draw your attention to an article in today's NY Times that is critical of cancer research by Gina Kolata. Here's a snippet:
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