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"The Takeaway" Becomes the Throwaway (Updated)

By amike on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 10:15am |
The Radio and Internet as news source have certain faults.  When I read something stupid, offensive,slanderous or all three in print media, I can turn it to good use:  I can use it  to clean windows, or pickup hairballs, or...
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Anyone Can Aspire to be a Governor

By amike on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 3:21pm |
Well, except the buy above... he can't aspire to be a Governor: he is a Governor: Deval Patrick of Massachsets.But this guy, Charles D. (Charlie) Baker, who recently resigned as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care can.  Tossing his hat...
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Research Help Wanted--pleeeeze (Health Care Related)

By amike on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 2:24pm |
Hi one, Hi all.I'm working on a little blog item about Charles Baker, CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health stepping down to run against Deval Patrick in the 2010 Massachusetts Governor's race..  One of the bits I was going to use...
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About Nothing, Really

By amike on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 9:08pm |
I'm finishing up a short visit to Montreal, where I've been attending one of those conferences academics attend when they feel they have too much time on their hands.  My days since Monday last have been filled from 8:00 to...
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What if...?

By amike on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 12:02am |
Historians have the truism, "history does not reveal its alternatives," drilled into them from day one.  But I'm on vacation and a secret reader of alternative histories besides. (Don't tell anyone.) Which goes by way of saying that recent news...
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Endurance

By amike on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 1:00pm |
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,     In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;     Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,     Parts...
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Morning Edition on NPR: Big Health Insurance with no response

By amike on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 10:32am |
Here's the NPR promo for the segment:Many of the nation's health insurers are opposed to a key part of the Democrats' plan to overhaul health care. Supporters call it the "public option" -- which means the government would offer a...
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Ozymandias

By amike on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 3:03pm |
Does anyone teach Ozymandias any more?  No, silly, I don't mean this oneI mean this one:    I met a traveler from an antique land    Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone    Stand in the desert . . ....
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A Quick Techie thing.

By amike on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 10:54am |
I know a lot of the addicted TPM-ers follow folks here.  I don't know how many are familiar with Change Detection dot com.  I use it mainly to monitor changes to my blog by being notified of those changes by...
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Progressivism gone awry? IV: A Tale of Two Houses

By amike on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 5:55pm |
No, Not the House of Commons and the House of Representatives.    There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real...

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