Skip to content

Monthly Archives: April 2014

Say it aint so, Stephen

Thursday, April 10, 2014

It is now official. Stephen Colbert will be taking over for David Letterman. I realize this is a promotion of sorts, and that, being one who doesn't own a television, I have no standing to complain, but complain I will anyway, because lack of standing or not, as an American I have a right of […]

Filed in American Life | | Comments (0)

Bring on the death panels

Thursday, April 10, 2014

The release of Medicare cost information has been debated in the press for a few days. I don't pretend to be an expert, but like everyone else I was shocked by the amount of money some doctors are getting for drugs they are prescribing. Of course, they have their excuses, but it would appear that […]

Filed in Health Care | | Comments (0)

We won’t get no education

Monday, April 7, 2014

But we’ll have plenty of thought control A few months ago I opined that the drift in our educational system (so well documented by Jonathan Pelto at Wait, What?) is toward the corporate model that has transformed the rest of the country. I predicted that we would soon see most of our education dollars going […]

Filed in Corporate Crime, Education | | Comments (0)

Not your Father’s First Amendment

Friday, April 4, 2014

Matt Bevin, owner of a bell factory here in Connecticut is the Tea Party candidate who is softening up Mitch McConnell for November. He has, of course, inserted his foot in a number of his own orifices, his mouth being the least embarrassing. He's currently in a bit of trouble for attending a rally in […]

Filed in Creeping Totalitarianism | | Comments (0)

Rural states cry foul

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The Boston Globe reports that congress critters from rural states are clamoring to expand an already existing program designed to shift NIH research grants away from deserving populated states (such as the Globe's Massachusetts) to rural states that could not win the grants on their own. “It’s hard to compete against MIT or Harvard… . […]

Filed in Red States/Blue States | | Comments (0)

Spreading slums throughout the land

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

We usually consider slums to be an urban phenomenon, with slum dwellings usually consisting of run down apartment buildings. But, thanks to Wall Street and the wonders of securitization, slums may be coming to a previously middle class, single family neighborhood near you: One of the reasons many investors have been skeptical of the way […]

Filed in Corporate Crime | | Comments (0)

Make it simple

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The explanations for things are often not simple, though our politicians of a red hue often claim that they are. On the other hand, it is often the case that the best remedy for stuff that ails us is the simplest solution, a fact which politicians of both parties seem to do their best to […]

Filed in Politics | | Comments (0)