Yikes. The former cancer head of the WHO has warned that soon, the best cancer treatments will be restricted to the rich. From the Telegraph story: The most effective cancer treatments could become the “preserve of the rich” with the cost to the NHS rising towards £1 million . . . . Continue Reading »
Bullfighting is a relic from the Roman arena, in which people get caught up in a blood lust by the torture and killing of bulls, mixed with the fear/anticipation that the matador could be gored. And now, Catalonia has ended it legally. From the Telegraph story:Audiences have been . . . . Continue Reading »
So Herman Cain thumped Rick Perry in the Florida straw poll where they both competed. This has been such a weird early period in the Republican nomination contest. You’ve had a handful of Republican candidates surging an then falling back. Cain surged after the first . . . . Continue Reading »
Songbook #20 tried to talk about the 9-11 interregnum and how it dealt a blow to rock’s radicalism, but in retrospect, it was really more about the nineties revival-of and eventual disenchantment-with such radicalism, with 9-11 seeming to serve as the final nail in the coffin. And Songbook #21 . . . . Continue Reading »
Some GWHs like to try to impose their policy views by stifling the debate about man made global warming. “It’s the consensus!” they thunder—deaf to the irony that “science” isn’t determined by consensus. “The skeptical scientists are on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds is somewhat cliché when it comes to rock criticism. Its awesome harmonic sonorities in terms of the then latest of pop/rock music of the day, as well as the studio technique on the multi-track recorder, is indeed unparalleled. Pet Sounds is what Pink Floyd . . . . Continue Reading »
Most of the grunge work of government is done by faceless bureaucrats, who write libraries full of societal enervating rules implementing what are essentially regulation-enabling statutes—often hundreds or even thousands of pages long. Thus, Obamacare’s 2000 or so pages of skeletal . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Romney is getting away with murder on his answers distinguishing Obamacare from Romneycare. Romney’s biggest advantage is that the other candidates don’t really make arguments about Obamacare. They just strike poses about how much they hate it, how fast . . . . Continue Reading »
It is remarkable how often judges shrug at the killing of sick and disabled people. In the UK, a man plead guilty to manslaughter of his terminally ill wife, and walked out of court a free man. From the London Evening Standard story:Stuart Mungall, 71, smothered former actress Joan, 69, at their . . . . Continue Reading »
The implantation of multiple embryos during in-vitro fertilization is causing children to be born unhealthy or disabled : As he was about to head across Toronto for a national gathering of reproductive-medicine specialists Wednesday, Dr. John Barrett received a sobering reminder of Canada’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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