February 2011
61 posts
Newsweek: Health care law deemed unconstitutional... →
newsweek:
Might as well throw some news into the mix since we are Newsweek. Today’s main event is another dissing of Obama’s health care plan. Things appear partisan, as always. The latest count: two judges appointed by Republican presidents have struck down the law or its main attribute, while two judges…
January 2011
65 posts
“We like repetitive hooks.”- The Black...
Video: Dr. Atul Gawande on Death Panels
If you have a few minutes, I highly recommend you check out this piece in last week’s New Yorker by Dr. Atul Gawande. He explores the concept of lowering medical costs by focusing on the sickest patients. And now, more insight from Dr. Gawande on health care reform and those so-called ‘death panels.’
utnereader:
Read more about Gawande’s take on the return of the term “Death...
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
– Voltaire (via tmblg)
Doctors Without Borders: Women, men, and children... →
Beyond sickening…
doctorswithoutborders:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided specialized care to 53 women, men, and children who were raped in a series of incidents that occurred between January 19 and 21 in South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Most of the rape…
“The burden was placed on each militia-eligible man to obtain firearms, to keep...”
– Political scientist Robert Spitzer says the original meaning of the phrase ‘well regulated militia’ in the Second Amendment came about because the United States government couldn’t afford to purchase guns for its armed forces. (via nprfreshair)
WordClouds: President Obama's 2011 SOTU Address vs...
Key words in President Obama’s speech (left): people, new, make, jobs, years, America, government
Key words in GOP response (right): government, spending, debt, president, now
I love Pandas, they're so chill. They're like...
WatchOn Friday, I hosted my last Idaho Reports. Watch the first ten minutes of the show for my interview with key leaders about the state of Idaho’s troubled health and welfare budget. In the second half, I’m joined by a panel of super smart analysts to discuss: the historic JFAC public hearings on the K-12 ed budget, health and welfare woes, the chairmanship change at the Idaho Tax...
WatchPowerful.
futurejournalismproject:
Journalism and Society: Reporting From Inside North Korea
Via The Economist
THE only publication written by North Koreans, about North Korea, for consumption by the outside world, is named after a river that flows from the North to South Korea and into the Yellow Sea. Rimjingang’s eight reporters are dotted about the totalitarian state; their backgrounds...
“Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years....”
– Harvard Business Review editorial director Justin Fox writing from the DLD Conference this past weekend in Munich, about how to thrive amid disruptive innovation. While tweeting the most interesting nuggets, Fox said that uber-blogger Robert Scoble and Business Insider founder Henry Blodgett kept...
“With Synchronicity, all the resources we need are made available to us at the...”
– Alex Chua (via yogaprivatelessons)
WatchCan’t resist a lil ACL craziness. Maybe it’s the fact I’m moving to the live music capitol of the world in a couple weeks. Or maybe I just really love sharing good beats— especially when they’re performed in the flesh and sound incredible.
To the left: The National/Band of Horses show. BoH starts about 28 minutes in, FYI.
The Black Keys on Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits: How did growing up in a small town in the midwest help make you what your are, or your music what it is.
The Black Keys: Well, it isolated us. I think that really helped. Made us work harder. Gave us huge chips on our shoulders. When we'd go to big cities and see all these bands and all these things they had and would take for granted-- all these things they could just get everyday. That was just totally foreign to us. You know, it just made us work harder. We always felt like the underdogs coming from Akron.
LINK: http://video.pbs.org/video/1757512915
WAPost's @TheFix: "The art of the political... →
Gotta hand it to politicians. They always give us (reporters) a reason or two to question their behavior, huh? Click on the link to see @TheFix’s “favorite journalistic takedowns.”
“I think that unfortunately, we’re living in a time of narrowing — journalism is...”
– Laura Poitras discussing her film, The Oath, which tells the story of Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo facing war crime charges. Poitras was named Outstanding Director for The Oath at the Cinema Eye Honors last night. (via poptech)
“Most political leaders struggle to speak fluently in a foreign tongue. Only the...”
– Nicolas Sarkozy is adopting a more presidential tone after being accused of ‘mistreating’ the French language. In November he nailed the fiendishly difficult imperfect subjunctive. Triple axels are easier. (via theeconomist)
WatchFrom @PBSNewsHour: “Arizona Attack Puts Power of Political Rhetoric Back in the Spotlight” (Aired 1/10/11)
“It is not ‘tyranny’ to feed hungry children, care for the disabled or educate...”
– Idaho House Minority Leader John Rusche, in response to Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s state of the state address. Read Idaho Statesman Reporter Brian Murphy’s report here.
“It’s time to make the extraordinary measures that were born of necessity these...”
– Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, during his state of the state address (1/10/11) Full text of the speech is here.
Watch
WatchMonsters of Folk on Austin City Limits. (Aired 1/8/11)
“We must change the atmosphere in which this happened, and we can begin by...”
– Bob Schieffer, in his weekly commentary following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing of six bystanders. (Face the Nation, 1/9/11)