The Moderate Voice has an intersesting post on the tragic murder of a census worker in Clay County, Kentucky. The point is that anti-government terrorism should not be defined too narrowly. When Michelle Bachman says crazy things about census workers, her audience isn’t just official Tea Party members, it’s all kinds of weirdos and nuts. …
Obesity
I’ll admit it, I’ve been reading the Atlantic blogs the past few days. What’s the deal with this never-ending discussion of obesity among McArdle, Ambinder, David Frum, and some of Sully’s readers? I don’t have the energy to sort through it, so could somebody describe it in 30 words or less?
The best health care system in the world
Tom Walsh of the Detroit Free Press (via JenJen): In the past few days, 114,000 Michigan households have received bad-news letters from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, socking individual health insurance subscribers with premium increases averaging 22%, effective Oct. 1. Blue Cross could have said, “Hey, things could have been worse. We asked for …
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Dirty Jobs
Another busy day at the Atlantic…
Glibertarians for shooting the president
Not surprised McArdle is in the club. But Will Wilkinson disappoints me. Kind of funny to see these two babbling about how about how assassination is no big deal the day after the brother of RFK and JFK died. Heh. Update. Perhaps this is unfair, but I wonder if they’d feel differently if they thought …
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Chat
Megan McArdle will be putting her own smug, glibertarian spin on the perils of health care reform in 1 pm chat today. It’s probably too early for a drinking game, so take a swig of whatever beverage you like every time you read “free market”, “innovation”, or “obesity”. If you hear “Ayn Rand” or the …
There’s one thing that I don’t understand
I don’t think this will ever reach the Morning Joe level of idiot box market saturation, but I do see more and more commentators mentioning the fact that the Republicans have not come up with their own alternative health care reform bill. This makes me wonder: why can’t Republicans have Greg Mankiw and Marty Feldstein …
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