September 2011
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Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer wants state-run... →
The popular second-term Democrat would like to create a state-run system that borrows from the program used in Saskatchewan. He said the Canadian province controls cost by negotiating drug prices and limiting nonemergency procedures such as MRIs.
Schweitzer said the province’s demographics and economy are similar to Montana in several ways — yet its residents live longer while spending far less...
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“One of the great forgotten facts about the United States is that not very long...”
– Malcolm Gladwell (via azspot)
“The status of public sentiment toward the Tea Party might very well end up...”
– Dislike of Tea Party Is Key to 2012 Vote | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
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“Try to imagine a parent-daughter conversation about sexual restraint and...”
– conservative pundit Michael Gerson talking stone cold sense in the Washington Post. (via abbyjean)
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“I love it when human beings can be expected to replicate the results of a...”
– 3quarksdaily: How We Look at Women, and Why
“Walk the talk, we often say. I would like to think we have perhaps a better...”
– 3quarksdaily: How We Look at Women, and Why
“On Sunday the Observer claimed that “the Tea Party rose out of anger over...”
– A Billionaires’ Coup in the US | Common Dreams
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Facebook Logout Tracking: Privacy Concerns Arise... →
Again
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“Who stays married and who doesn’t is a question not always about...”
– Iris Krasnow: The Fine Line Between Marriage and Divorce
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“For a few moments on Saturday, the confrontations between the police and the...”
– The New York Times, “Videos Show Police Using Pepper Spray at Protest on the Financial System.”
Is Paul Browne fucking kidding us? Who the fuck was that officer, Mr. Browne? Why won’t you say who it was?
(via inothernews)
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#occupywallstreet: Noam Chomsky gives his support... →
occupywallstreet:
When asked for his thoughts of the continued occupation in lower Manhattan, Noam Chomsky responded via email:
Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial institutions generally — has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world). And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their...
“Republicans claim to be deeply worried by budget deficits. Indeed, Mr. Ryan has...”
– The Social Contract - NYTimes.com
“On one side, we have the claim that the rising share of taxes paid by the rich...”
– The Social Contract - NYTimes.com
“The reason Bill Gates wishes for a technology that creates energy at half the...”
– The Quest — By Daniel Yergin — Book Review - NYTimes.com
“There tends to be a view, perhaps most prominently propagated by Al Gore, that...”
– The Quest — By Daniel Yergin — Book Review - NYTimes.com
“He’s taking on the administration, which wants to put everything behind us...”
– What no-drama Obama could learn from no-hysterics Eric - Wall Street - Salon.com
“The people who caused this crash have to be held accountable and I don’t...”
– What no-drama Obama could learn from no-hysterics Eric - Wall Street - Salon.com
Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged →
Scroll down and watch the video. This is about the measurement at CERN of neutrinos, subatomic particles, traveling faster than the speed of light. Which, of course, is not supposed to be possible. However it turns out, this is what makes science fun.
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“It’s hard not to notice a new trend in the Republican race this year,...”
– GOP Debaters Get Shit Wrong, Don’t Care | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
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“I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.”—No!...”
– Eschaton: What She Said
Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on class warfare.
(via agreatnation)
“Eighty years ago, faced with today’s economic events, nobody would have...”
– The ailing euro is part of a wider crisis. Our capitalist system is near meltdown | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer
“For Brooks, “rising above partisanship” always means “not...”
– Why David Brooks Really Is a Sap | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
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“I refuse to believe corporations are people until Texas executes one.”
– Ara Rubya via @DanonNewsNet (via soupsoup)
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"Since the official end of the recession,... →
“For all his idealization of American life, Reagan left the impression that...”
– Joseph Heller Catch-22 50th Anniversary: How the Novel Changed America - The Daily Beast
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“Most serious matters are closed to the hard-boiled. They are unpracticed in...”
– Saul Bellow, Dangling Man
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“Dreaming big is usually a lonely occupation, especially when the currents of...”
– American Dreamers — By Michael Kazin — Book Review - NYTimes.com
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“In Colorado we believe our laws should be practical and they should be fair. Yet...”
– The ACLU of Colorado has endorsed the campaign to regulate marijuana like alcohol (via jonathan-cunningham)
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(A favorite beginning)
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive….” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an...
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“A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.”
– Christopher Hitchens
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“We can tell our children that school is important until we’re blue in the face,...”
– Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd - CNN.com
We also don’t believe in the value of education, culturally — we just like to say we do because as citizens of an industrialized nation, we’re supposed to.
(via chameli)