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... and meanwhile, the world kept spinning around us ... Charles Krauthammer has A better plan for health care reform. "The administration’s defense is to accuse critics of being for the status quo. Nonsense. Candidate John McCain and a host of other Republicans since have offered alternatives. Let me offer mine: Strip away current inefficiencies before remaking one-sixth of the U.S. economy. The plan is so simple it doesn’t even have the requisite three parts. Just two: radical tort reform and radically severing the link between health insurance and employment." I could go for that; to me, tort reform and divorcing health insurance from employment is exactly the right solution.
Did you know? Free parking costs a fortune. Who knew? Yet another reason why public transportation makes sense. And meanwhile, we have the U.S. Government using tax dollars to pay people to buy new cars! I'm not making this up, but I wish I were. As Philip Greenspun notes, "Cash for Clunkers only makes sense if we believe that our #1 problem is that we don’t drive sufficiently fancy cars." I do believe this is the dumbest government program I've ever heard about, amid heavy competition. I'm really rooting for Carol Bartz, Yahoo's new CEO; she seems cool and I've heard good things about her, and "we" need Yahoo to remain a viable competitor for Google. But she kind of lost me with this one: "Yahoo was never a search company". What?! C'mon Carol, some of us were alive back then, when Yahoo started, as the Internet directory, the way to search for stuff online...
A very strange but cogent argument: How the Apple Tablet could ruin computing. Basically it isn't the Tablet per se, it is the fact that a Tablet might use a cellular provider for Internet access (instead of, say, WiFi). It is true, you can do a lot more with your computer than you can with your smartphone, and that's often because of your cellular provider, not the maker of the handset. Exhibit A would be Apple's recent decision not to support Google Voice. Marco Arment takes on Jason Calacanis, in the wake of his Case Against Apple. "This, unfortunately, is the fate of Calacanis’ piece: he has some good points, but they’re buried in so much off-base ranting and misplaced frustration that it’s difficult to take any of it seriously." It does make for great theater, however; I found Jason's article entertaining, and Marco's critique equally so :)
Perfect for a long weekend of eating and drinking, with strictly incidental amounts of exercise, Scott "Dilbert" Adams notes Exercise is Useless for Weight Loss. I think there's a real point here, exercize alone doesn't cause you to lose much weight... there are plenty of overweight cyclists, for example, some of whom put in quite a few miles. I do think the same mindset that causes you to start exercizing also causes you to watch what you eat; once you care, you care about everything. Except Epoisses and Pinot, of course :)
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