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Archives for December 8, 2007
Another reason to find Huckabee scary – past support for quarantining AIDS patients
Check out this AP story on the USAToday's website:U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said … [Read more...]
Nix Gambling Addix as Economic QuikFix
So says the growing chorus of opposition to what I call Governor Deval Patrick's plan to expand gambling addiction in Massachusetts. Although as a candidate he opposed casino gambling, Patrick has made casino gambling the centerpiece of his … [Read more...]
Garbage Journalism II: Who Will Ombud the Ombudsman
Post Ombudsman Falls Down on the Job Sent to letters@washpost.com on 12/8/07 Sometimes, people break the law. That's why we have police. But when a citizen breaks the law and gets away with it, you have a problem. Likewise, sometimes … [Read more...]
Globale Erwarmung…
Yes, it's from Der Spiegel, but it's in English Sweden First, US almost Last, Says Study A new report rates the climate-protection performance of 56 countries that account for 90 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. While Germany … [Read more...]
MA Hospitals afraid of their own numbers.
This week Health Care for All put in a request to the state to have hospitals disclose their Hospital Standardized Mortality Rate. Invented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, it's a thoroughly normed- and adjusted measure by … [Read more...]
Pigs Flying: Casinos Opposition Covered in Globe
I never, in a million years, would expect to read this in the Boston Globe - a front-page article about the growing movement rising up against casinos. Several weeks ago, I wrote an email to Matt Viser, after he wrote another one of the … [Read more...]
Has Oprah Jumped The Shark? Or Has America?
[Disclosure: I have been a diehard Oprah Winfrey fan since the first week she appeared on tv. I have tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get tickets to her show.] It's 1987, I'm in a too small elevator heading from the 2nd floor at the … [Read more...]
Mike Huckabee, serial murderer releaser
This is becoming quite a weird story. It's not just Wayne Dumond, as it turns out. From the Arkansas Leader newspaper, in 2004: Here are the figures [for commutations and pardons] for neighboring states since 1996, when Huckabee … [Read more...]