NYT Editorial on Medicare Costs
There will likely be no real solution until the American health care system moves away from unfettered fee-for-service payments that encourage doctors to perfor...
Author: Lisa
She plays o' the viol-de-gamboys, speaks three or four languages word for word without book, hath all the good gifts of nature, knows a hawk from a handsaw, and can see a church by daylight. The rest is subject to fancy.
Grilled Fresh Pacific Northwest Salmon
I admit that I’m really loving easy access to fresh, locally caught, salmon. At this time of year in particular, when it’s simple to buy a fillet or...
Pompeii and Herculaneum: Abandoned to the Ravages of Time
Peter Popham of Prospect Magazine asks: Pompeii and Herculaneum have been listed as Unesco World Heritage Sites since 1997. So why isn’t the world’s culture pol...
Whedon, Rimbaud, and Cicero: Introduction to the Angel Rewatch
The central question informing the character of Angel is asked during season 3, first in the episode “Amends.” Angel’s been having really bad ...
James Fallows: “If the TSA Were Running New York . . .
James Fallows at The Atlantic writes: The point of terrorism is not to “destroy.” It is to terrify. And for eight and a half years now, the dominant...
EFF on FaceBook’s Eroding Privacy—And Rights Grab
The EFF has published two important discussions of recent changes regarding who controls your data on Facebook; first, a timeline of the changes to the Facebook...
Slacktivist on Tim LeHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ Tribulation Force
Fred Clark has been doing a close analysis of the Tim LeHaye “Left Behind” books about on life after the Apocalypse for those “left behindR...
Tor has a Blog!
Long ago, around 1983, and before 1984, when I was an already devout fan of F and SF, I discovered that Tor books were a reasonable gamble; even if I didn’...
Julie and Julia: A Meditation on Film, Julia Child, and Cooking Blogs
Even though the film Julie and Julia came out in 2009, I’ve only just now seen it. Written and directed by Nora Ephron, and based in part on the blog Juli...
Scientists Discover Brain’s Moral Compass . . . and It Responds to Magnets
In a study led by Dr. Liane Young of MIT, researchers have discovered that the moral compass lies in the right temporo-parietal junction of the human brain, nea...