Ted Barlow reprises an old post about health care, and it is still just as relevant. Nothing new here: the Europeans do it better, our system is less efficient, with more overhead, and even the long lines. Quoting the Washington Monthly: We should acknowledge the problems: waits for non-urgent types of care, and recent, damaging [...]
I suppose late is better than never, but MoveOn has finally decided to get onboard with the fight against the bankruptcy bill – the day before the House votes on the topic. Although they are coming in at a late stage, I think it is important to support MoveOn’s pledge drive which has already raised [...]
1,806 people were arrested in New York during the Republican Convention. It is now clear that the police were simply harassing people to limit their freedom of speech. Video tape evidence has exonerated over 400 people, often showing evidence in direct contradiction to police lies. Of the 1,670 cases that have run their full course, [...]
Andrea Dworkin, who died today, never claimed that all heterosexual sex is rape. statements that Dworkin makes about the meaning of intercourse are routinely misinterpreted as statements made in propia voce [in her own voice] when in fact they are statements of the meaning attributed to intercourse by male supremacist culture and enforced by the [...]
I’m glad to know that the United States Army does not take hostages. Because, you know, it wouldn’t look good if they did. Also, see Body and Soul who has a great post about a Wall Street Journal, “look back at American expectations about the treatment of prisoners of war — when those prisoners were [...]
Very exciting. I just discovered via a discussion on Golublog that CiteULike provides RSS feeds for a number of anthropology journals, including The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and History and Anthropology. It isn’t clear how they are getting these feeds – it look as if they are simply collecting various CiteULike posts and [...]