August 2009
5 posts
Forwards-walking tour guides? A new era for... →
Apparently a slow news day.
Sexy Abstinence →
Contrary to the ad campaign against teen pregnancy by the Candie Foundation, Jezebel weighs in on how writing “sexy” across your chest doesn’t encourage abstinence.
Death panels, socialism, and broken democracy. →
Ezra Klein, by far the best source of commentary on domestic and health policy, has posted an interview with Senator Johnny Isakson on the rumors circulating about euthanasia and end-of-life care in the house bill.
What is being talked about is a provision in the house bill, similar to that in medicaid and medicare, that covers a voluntary consultation with a physician to create an advanced...
“A survey of billboards in St. Louis found twice as many billboards in...”
– This and other interesting facts in a slideshow on the history of ethnically targeted advertising at Big Money.
This just in: childbirth = pornography.
So says the President of Zambia.
July 2009
2 posts
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how to pick up a chick: tell her she has weird... →
Thanks to this post by Conor Fridersdorf at True/Slant, I now know a new tactic by “pick-up artists” labelled “the neg.”
Citing examples:
Negs: turning your back to her, pointing out a flaw in her clothes, her hair, something, anything. ‘Hey your nose wiggles when you talk’. ‘Your lipstick is weird’. Eating a sandwich while talking to her, with sweet sandwich in your...
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Something's gotta give... any ideas? →
In his NY Times article, Peter Singer suggests that we must ration health care, indeed we already are, and that the best way to do so is by computing the Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY) that a given procedure will provide, and outweighing that number with the procedure’s financial costs to determine which procedures will produce the best “bang for your buck.” Unfortunately...