Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Class conflict...
Visual Summary Of The World's High Net Worth Individuals
Another news flash...
American Electric Power (AEP) sent shock wave last week by suggesting consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40-60% in the next few years due to new air regulations by the EPA.
Another news flash...
American Electric Power (AEP) sent shock wave last week by suggesting consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40-60% in the next few years due to new air regulations by the EPA.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Health Care...waste mgmt, what a crock
Estimated waste in American health-care spending
AMERICA has a talent for wasting money on health care. It has devised many ingenious ways to do this. A patient may see many skilled specialists, none of whom co-ordinate with one another. Payment systems are unfathomably complex and highly variable. Doctors order duplicative or unnecessary tests. The country excels at treating sick people and does a horrible job keeping them from getting sick in the first place. All these problems, however, are due to a simple, structural failing: the more services a hospital provides, the more it is paid. Note the *total waste in billions...
AMERICA has a talent for wasting money on health care. It has devised many ingenious ways to do this. A patient may see many skilled specialists, none of whom co-ordinate with one another. Payment systems are unfathomably complex and highly variable. Doctors order duplicative or unnecessary tests. The country excels at treating sick people and does a horrible job keeping them from getting sick in the first place. All these problems, however, are due to a simple, structural failing: the more services a hospital provides, the more it is paid. Note the *total waste in billions...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
An Unspeakable Word Is the Word That Has to Be Spoken
Warning: This essay does not include the single most reprehensible, shocking, forbidden expletive in the language. Maybe it should.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/an-unspeakable-word-is-the-word-that-has-to-be-spoken.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/an-unspeakable-word-is-the-word-that-has-to-be-spoken.html
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Disaster Capitalism at it's finest...
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http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/images/USDebt.png
Friday, May 13, 2011
Empire of Ilusion
We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
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