Author Archives: Andrew

Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance ...

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.

Nate Silver to Republicans: Raise Taxes ...

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) ...

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 […]

Morally Complex ‘Magicians’ Recasts Potter’s World ...

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.

Virtually Everything ...

All together now!

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.

Least frustrating system ...

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 […]

Merlin Mann on Priorities ...

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 […]

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