I wonder how many people who just donated to Scott Brown and Martha Coakley wish they had that back so they could help out in Haiti instead?It's not too late, they could agree to each donate $500,000 dollars of their contributions to … [Read more...]
Coakley v Brown re: “socially infertile”
From an Austrailian article entitled 'Socially infertile' may cause IVF overload: DOCTORS fear fertility clinics will struggle to cope with a surge in demand and patients could face lengthy delays in treatment as hundreds of … [Read more...]
Write One Check for a Supplemental Plan
With the Two-Check proposal, we are getting closer to my idea for writing a separate check for supplemental plans if you want coverage for abortion and other controversial and experimental treatments that I've written about many times … [Read more...]
Use Stimulus To Increase Local Farming Capacity
Our nation's factory farmed food supply is a public health hazard, responsible for many deaths from bacterial infections, rampant diabetes and poor nutrition, new influenzas, contaminated ground water, etc. There is a growing … [Read more...]
WTF? World Time Format!
A guy developed it at the Diesel Cafe and posted a link to his AlphabetClock.com site on the Diesel's wifi bulletin board. I got really into the idea and changed the code so it could do microseconds, and then I converted it to … [Read more...]
Live blogging my late-night BMG session
12:27 AM - back. got beer and found opener, opened beer, not as good tasting as I'd hoped, but good enough12:27:56 AM cutting new pita bread up, as planned12:29 AM Back in action, clicking on David's post about the Senate … [Read more...]
A Plan for the Beatles
My plan calls for offering the Beatles a deadline of Friday, December 18th, by which time they must convene and start rehearsing and writing new material. If accepted, recording would commence at Abbey Road studios in London (or some other … [Read more...]
Respect For Marriage Act ignores California couples?
Doesn't repealing 1738C mean that states DO have to recognize other state's marriages? Or was 1738C always unnecessary because states never had to recognize marriages that went against their public policy? But it seems like bad … [Read more...]
Ellen Goodman, meet French “Mutuals”
Ellen Goodman has a meaty column in the Globe today about the debate going on in Congress whether the public should pay for abortions and maternity care as part of the public option. Michelle Obama referred to this connection between health … [Read more...]
Mandated funding for organ transplants?
I'm amazed at the reaction in Manny's diary about the high cost of mandated insurance to my suggestion that we could cut costs by not including organ transplants in the mandated plans, and leaving them and other controversial … [Read more...]