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Hello, it's me

By artappraiser on Tue, 10/29/2013 - 12:35am |

 

 

Excellent diagnosis, doc

By artappraiser on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 5:21pm |

In response to the New York Times' “The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill” (“Paying Till It Hurts” series, front page, June 2,)

Kenneth Prager, a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, wrote the following short Letter to the Editor, which was published June 3 along with several others:

More compare and contrast

By artappraiser on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 4:02am |

When nuns puked nails
by Josephine Livingstone, Prospect blog, April 5, 2013
{a review of Brian Levack’s new history of demonic possession in the Christian West, "The Devil Within" (Yale, £25)]

VS.

The D.S.M. and the Nature of Disease
by Gary Greenberg, Elements @ newyorker.com, April 9, 2013

China has had more school massacres by 'rampage killers' than the U.S.?

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 3:10pm |

That's what this Wikipedia chart says:

List of rampage killers: School massacres

It's interactive, you can have the chart sort by any of the headings. If you click on "Country," it will sort alphabetically by country.

I count

21 incidents in China from  occurring 1995 through 2012

and

17 incidents in the U.S. occurring from 1927 (yes, that's 1927 ) through 2012.

Geezers rock!

By artappraiser on Mon, 11/26/2012 - 12:35pm |

Despite some engaging guest performances including the much-reported reunions with former bandmates Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor, the core quartet didn't hit top speed until the show's second half. When they did, they were untouchable.

-Paul Sexton @ Billboard.com, November 26, 2012

As Danny and The Juniors foretold in 1958:

 

Dueling Israelis

By artappraiser on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 4:12pm |

A news post that I can't put in the news section because it requires both links to be given equal attention. These two stories are both atop the New York Times website right now:

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