The case for an auto industry bailout

Jonathan Cohn makes it better than I can: it’s not just the immediate job losses that would occur if the companies were allowed to fail, it’s the downstream losses at suppliers and all the businesses and towns that depend on the taxes and spending revenue from those that are conveniently forgotten (tellingly, by many Republican …

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You’re an accident witness. Now what?

Jim Macdonald is an EMT in New England and a moderator at Making Light. For some time now he’s been writing up “how-to” responses to medical emergencies for laymen. An index to them can be found here. Everyone should read both the posts and the comments (because the comments have specific instances of emergencies and …

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