December 1 is World AIDS Day. It’s a day meant to commemorate the dead and raise awareness among the living. I’m sure there will be many other folks in the Link and Think project who will be talking about current research, private histories, political activity and the like, so I thought I’d provide links to …
Hoo boy. I got up yesterday morning, turned on the coffee pot, and it died after about three cups of palatable coffee were brewed. Nice way to begin the day, I thought, but I’ll go past Longs or K-Mart to pick up a new coffee pot, on the way to get our Thanksgving dinner from …
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
We’ve cooked our turkey in one of those since the mid-1950s; I never realized how much wattage gets eaten before we even start on the contents! 1335 watts? Good thing we only use it twice a year! Oh, for crying out loud. I got an e-mail from Amazon yesterday offering me a Charlotte Church greatest …
It’s not enough to indirectly promote pollution, it seems. The Administration has quietly been promoting its abstinence philosophy on its own web sites, to the detriment of public health. Why else delete “information on condom use, the relation between abortion and breast cancer and ways to reduce sex among teenagers” from CDC and other agency …
If you wondered what that “Get Out of Jail Free”tm card for Eli Lilly in the Homeland Security legislation was doing there, ask yourself just who knew whom in the Administration. Other influence peddlers want to spread their agenda, too, and they may be finding a receptive ear in the Senate. I particularly like this …
No, no. Not this website. This website. That is Medicare’s financing site, and I just spent two hours looking for a simple schedule of approved payments for specific drugs. Do not try this. It is a fruitless exercise. Fortunately, some folks did not avoid this site (the one you’re reading) yesterday. The odometer slipped over …
Most understated line of the day (at least by 0745hst): “The new 628-page rule is available online“. One assumes that it’s not a single run-on sentence. The rule in question is the new one allowing polluters a free pass on emissions, just to clarify. Why people despise politicians, #3713: “The Senate voted to keep in …
I don’t know if this is unethical or merely unseemly; all I know is it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Ad agencies fund drug research. You want more? As expected, the Bushies are relaxing clean air rules to let their friends (can you say Enron?) upgrade equipment without improving emission controls. Oh, and they’re …
It has come to my attention that I was the 10,000th visitor at Deborah’s site the other day. How about that? My own sitemeter has been creeping up on that somewhat talismanic number for some time. The more observant of you may note that I changed the style of the thing overnight, all the better …