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January 04, 2010 12:25 PM EST --
The worst bang for the buck. The area of the circle for each country is proportional to the number of doctor visits per person.
(Higher alcohol and cigarette consumption account for the Danish . . .
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January 01, 2010 07:34 PM EST --
Leah Garrick has a column that is one of the more entertaining recap of the naughts at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/31/DDTS1AVBBR.DTL#ixzz0bPVq0iaZ
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December 20, 2009 12:28 PM EST --
Frank Rich has an editorial in today New York Times that I find all-too-true.
Some highlights:
If there’s been a consistent narrative to this year and every other in this decade, it’s . . .
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October 20, 2009 06:18 PM EDT --
Having been traveling a lot of late (see my Gather photo albums), I have missed some of the traditional-famil-value zealots flaming out in technicolor hypocrisy, but wanted to draw attention to more research . . .
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October 10, 2009 03:18 PM EDT --
Yesterday, the New York Times published an op-ed piece Nobel-Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (the whole text is online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/opinion/09krugman.html?em=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1255201803-76eW2goEVfHzrjwbanezQA) . . .
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August 17, 2009 04:34 PM EDT --
In Shorter Views , Samuel Delany wrote: "In 1860 the postage stamp was introduced in England. Before that date, when a letter was sent, the recipient paid the postman on delivery. After that date, the . . .
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July 27, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
It's difficult to keep up with revelations of how those who bray about defending traditional family behavior honor their marital vows. Max Blumenthal reported in The Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-23/the-secret-gop-sex-diary/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL2) . . .
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July 26, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
It's difficult to keep up with revelations about Christianist crusaders for "traditional family values" engaging in adultery and even polygamy. In addition to the ever-self-righteous governor of South . . .
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July 01, 2009 08:57 PM EDT --
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford , who recently took the non-abdication of the Biblical King David (who annointed at the behest of God by the Prophet Samuel not elected by the fools of South Carolina . . .
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June 28, 2009 06:56 PM EDT --
South Carolina voters must be particularly benighted, having elected a governor who considers himself in the league of the Biblical monarch King David. The prophet Samuel annointed David king who was . . .
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June 26, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
Michael Hamar aptly asked (in his blog, Michael-in-Norfolk): "What is it about 'family values' Republicans who whine about the need to 'protect marriage' by forbidding us gays to have it while they go . . .
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June 04, 2009 01:56 PM EDT --
Research by Amy Adamczyk of the City University of New York (CUNY) John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center reported in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior . . .
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May 28, 2009 01:42 PM EDT --
Anyone for whom Dick Cheney, who assured us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that a-Quaeda was allied with Saddam Hussein before the US invacion, that Iraquis would welcome US liberation, etc. . . .
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May 18, 2009 06:02 PM EDT --
I consider theu school-dropout, unmarried teenage mother Bristol Palin the poster child for abstinence-only pseudo-education. Apparently, she does, too. She has become a spokewoman for . . .
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May 16, 2009 02:30 AM EDT --
A friend sent me this compilation of offbeat epitaphs from cemeteries around the English-speaking world. I don't vouch for their authenticity, but was at least amused by their oddities.
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May 13, 2009 03:11 PM EDT --
Former FBI Interrogator of al-Quaeda prisoners Jack Cloonan explains that regular interrogation tactics work well on even the worst terrorists, that there's no such thing as a "ticking timebomb" . . .
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May 12, 2009 01:30 PM EDT --
Conservative judge Richard Posner:
It is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings. That . . .
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May 06, 2009 08:01 PM EDT --
Kansas State geographers mapped indicators of all seven deadly sins, reporting the results at a national meeting last weekend in Las Vegas.
I was not surprised that the Deep South has the . . .
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May 06, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
Carrie Prejean will make money on the Christianist victim circuit and has drawn enough attention to the Miss Thing contests for Donald Trump to tolerate multiple contract violations.
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May 02, 2009 05:05 PM EDT --
In looking at Baroque/Counter-Reformation art in Spain and across Latin America and the plethora of paintings and carvings of St. Sebastian as a pincushion in Italy and of the flagellation of Christ, . . .
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