Archive | December, 2007
What’s the Impact of Denying Safe Contraception to Women?
While Andy Hammond continues his enlightened viewpoint that women who want birth control are nothing more than promiscuous miscreants who want the federal government to subsidize their totally unnecessary sexuality, people in the reality-based community are measuring the impact of conservative social policy on the health of women, and the results are deeply troubling. Now if [...]
Continue reading...Site Appearance
31. December 2007
It’s not my fault this time. I’m having some errors on the site, and switched temporarily to a simpler theme that actually loads. Update: Nothing to see here, move along.
Continue reading...The Best Outsourcing Story Ever: Childbirth
31. December 2007
After a weekend of dealing with outsourced technical support from Sony and customer service from XM Radio, I thought that outsourcing couldn’t get any more ridiculous until I read this article from CNN about outsourced childbirth: But if commercial surrogacy keeps growing, some fear it could change from a medical necessity for infertile women to [...]
Continue reading...Candidate Name Recognition
30. December 2007
I wonder, if while writing news stories about low name recognition of political candidates, Montana’s political reporters ever consider the possibility that the reason candidates aren’t better known is because of their lack of coverage? I’m sure that Mike Lange is happy that no one know who he is, though, so he is unlikely to complain [...]
Continue reading...A Great Read About Airline Security
29. December 2007
Patrick Smith, writing for the New York Times, has one of the best critiques of the current airline security regime I have read: In the end, I’m not sure which is more troubling, the inanity of the existing regulations, or the average American’s acceptance of them and willingness to be humiliated. These wasteful and tedious protocols [...]
Continue reading...Education Notes
28. December 2007
A few notes from the world of education news. America’s top schools are struggling with an amazing crop of applicants who they simply don’t have enough room to hold, says Joseph Berger in the New York Times. Working with some of these students, I have come to see the often absurd logic of the admissions process [...]
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