Category: Medicine
USA Today prints a (sort of) joke job description for the next generation of doctors: Idealistic Generation X/Y overachievers with low- to mid-six-figure student loans to work in imploding health care system currently subject to runaway entitlement spending. Future salary...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:42 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Quotes
From Russell Roberts at Cafe Hayek: There are two ways to reduce the connection between politicians and money. One is to reduce the role of money. The other is to reduce the role of politicians. I choose the latter. I...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:23 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Physics
Dennis Overbye of the NYTimes had this to say of cosmologists who are speculating about disembodied brains spontaneously generated in empty space: If you are inclined to skepticism this debate might seem like further evidence that cosmologists, who gave us...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:09 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Quotes
Jesse Walker at Hit and Run had this to say about anti-immigrant activist Tom Tancredo dropping out of the GOP Presidential race: Tom Tancredo has dropped out of the presidential race. He will be replaced by Montezuma Aztlan Calderon, an...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:41 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Quotes
Dark matter has worked its way into political cliche: Rosenbaum's Political Physics: Do you ever sense there is some large mass of dark matter, an unseen Scandal Star, the gravitational pull of which is warping the coverage of what seems,...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Quotes
Megan McArdle: I am not fighting for the Bush tax cuts; I'm fighting the notion that people who are in favor of tax cuts are all a bunch of liars or loonie tunes. Politicians in favor of tax cuts are...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:53 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Quotes
From Edgar Allen Poe's essay The Imp of the Perverse: We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued,...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:37 PM • 2 Comments •