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Commenter Pope Jimbo points us to a censorship* controversy
at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Director** of social
media Kurt Greenbaum recently ran a Friday thumbsucker asking
commenters to name the "strangest things" they had ever eaten.
Greenbaum's narrative :
Then, ...
Other
Horde stuffing this Thanksgiving. The Senate
version of the Affordable Healthcare for Americans Act has
passed out
of committee by a vote of 60-39. After the Turkey Day
vacation, the Senate will reconvene for floor debate.
Legislative experts, please correct: Should this bill ...
World
Health care
Turkey
Staffers in the Los Angeles and Washington offices of Reason
Foundation, the nonprofit publisher of Reason magazine,
Reason.com, and Reason.tv say thanks to the more-than-600 donors
who pledged over $55,000 in the fight for "Free Minds and Free
Markets"
...
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Washington, D.C
The Politico digs
up enough stories of internecine fighting amongst the loose
bunch of organizations supposedly responsible for, or furthering
in specific locations, the Tea Party movement to generate a
semi-convincing trend story that argues the movement may be
"losing momentum."
...
White House
Washington, D.C
New Moon , the latest installment in
the wildly successful Twilight series, opens in movie
theaters today. And as Noah Berlatsy writes, it's about much more
than just vampires and werewolves.
Other
On Tuesday I
noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration, apparently in
response to an emailing campaign organized by Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), had removed from one of
its webpages the claim that "the American Medical
Association recommends that marijuana remain a ...
Other
Some musings on the
glorious future of lab-grown meat , from the glorious
future-oriented mag, H+:
In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just
domestics that were affordable to farm. Yes, ANY ANIMAL, even
rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon. ...
World
With unemployment reaching double digits
and public approval ratings sinking, ObamaCare has very little
going for it at the moment. So how come Barack Obama, Nancy
Pelosi, and Harry Reid have been able to march forward with their
grand designs undeterred? One reason, writes Shikha ...
Congress
Health care
Barack Obama
Nancy Pelosi
Harry Reid
• Henry Jenkins
explores the art that falls between genres.
• Paul McAuley
ponders two hidden histories of science fiction, one that
highlights sf's intersection with respectable literature and one
that plunges deep into the trash.
• The best
alternate history story I've ...
Other
From our December issue, Senior Editor
Radley Balko wonders how the prosecutor who convicted an innocent
man on dubious child molestation charges could go on to become a
state superior court judge.
Other
If you ever get that feeling that you have already died and
everything around you is some bizarre virtual afterlife
designed to make you figure out that you're no longer on Earth,
well, this
video will clinch it for you:
Other
An audit of the Federal
Reserve Bank would "substantially castrate the Fed so it cannot
do what it was set up to do," Rep. Melvin Watt (D., N.C.) said
yesterday, in an effort to tamp down a congressional uprising
against the Bush/Obama economic team.
This
devastating exchange ...
Congress
You might think that movies
featuring bare-breasted starlets are more likely to blow up at
the box office. But as Tom Jacobs notes in Miller-McCune , that
perception suggests you might not be "keeping abreast* of the
latest research."
Analyses of 914 films released between ...
Other
On behalf of everyone at Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that
publishes this website, Reason.tv, and Reason magazine,
I want to thank you for generous support of our work. The
webathon officially ends at midnight tonight, but as you can from
our torch graphic in the upper-right-hand ...
World
Australia
Japan
The
blogosphere is hopping with reports that the Hadley Centre's
computers have been
hacked and possibly embarrassing internal emails and other
documents are now circulating on the web. Earlier this year, the
Hadley Centre
rejected accusations that it had destroyed original
...
Other
Okay, so the word hasn't been banned. It's just been rendered
useless .
Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented
access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting
their children from household accidents.
New guidance drawn up at the request ...
Other
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris
Dodd released his plan for overhauling Wall Street regulations
last week. Among its components is a proposed new organization,
the Agency for Financial Stability, which would have the power to
break-up those companies considered too big to fail. ...
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Chris Matthews
Christopher J. Dodd
Not if you include the cost
of the "doc fix" —the permanent change
to Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors—that the House yanked
out of their reform package so that its bad fiscal news wouldn't
show up in their allegedly deficit neutral health care bill.
Here's the CBO ,
...
Congress
Health care
If you don't like meanspirited posts, stop right now, and please
continue to read the more even tempered and insightful
commentaries of my big-souled colleagues. O.K. Let's move on. The
Washington Post is running an article today about rich
kid heirs who
feel guilty about being ...
