Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance I’m a sucker for these animated explanations. And the parallels about fire-fighting insurance are pretty striking.
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Esquire: Nate Silver to Republicans: Raise Taxes For Republicans, raising a few taxes may be good policy and good politics. We are now on the verge of the longest period since the creation of the income tax without an increase in what the wealthiest taxpayers pay — fifteen years, matching the no-new-taxes interval from 1952 to 1966. Meanwhile, […]
Debunking Health Care Lies (by Reading the Bill) — Blog — OpenCongress At OpenCongress, we’ve had the official text of the House health care bill available online for a month for people to read and get the facts: H.R. 3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Anyone can easily permalink and comment on any individual section of the full […]
NPR: Morally Complex ‘Magicians’ Recasts Potter’s World: When you take [the villain] away, suddenly the universe gets a whole lot more complicated. Suddenly it’s all shades of gray. And it’s not clear who belongs where. And it’s not clear what magic is for.
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Nuckin’ Futs ...
Ballard Street This is my fear most days living in Atlanta. The drivers here are nuckin’ futs.
A musical life ...
This might be the biggest reason I love working from home.
Tree Style Tabs ...
Federico Mena Quintero — May 2009 Activity Log An interesting — if not fully integrated — extension. Too many options, messes with the default tab order (when closing tabs, etc.) but organized and uncluttered, even with twice as many tabs open. It’s not too often I’ve seen a Firefox extension that really changes the way I (can) operate.
stevenf.com: I don’t consider myself blindly brand-loyal to the Mac. I know, right? Co-founder of a indie Mac software company? I find Mac OS X to be the least frustrating of the currently available options, but the buck certainly doesn’t stop there. We have miles and miles to go in terms of making computing better. I […]
Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43 Folders Making something a BIG RED TOP TOP BIG HIGHEST #1 PRIORITY changes nothing but text styling. If it were really important, it’d already be done. Period. Think about it. Example. When my daughter falls down and screams, I don’t ask her to wait while I grab […]
