Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Pandora's box

http://www.pandora.com/

Music Genome Project.

AWESOME :)

(and free--listening to songs based on my fave fave fave girl Kay Hanley & Letters to Cleo)

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

And another good reason why...

DC is stupid:
An informal survey found that almost half -- 22 of 50 -- of the District's CVS pharmacies lock up their condoms -- this in a city where one in 20 residents is HIV-positive. Most of those stores are in less affluent areas where the incidence of HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy -- all preventable with condoms -- are highest. Many CVS stores in the close-in Prince George's County suburbs also lock up condoms.

Prophylactic Measures

Many Can't Buy Condoms Now Before Paging a Store Clerk to Unlock Them

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Republican, Shmrepublican...

Mitt "Hillary" Romney goes for big government.

"It is not a typical Massachusetts-Taxachusetts, oh-just-crazy-liberal plan," said Stuart H. Altman, a professor of health policy at Brandeis University.

Massachusetts Sets Health Plan for Nearly All

BOSTON, April 4 — Massachusetts is poised to become the first state to provide nearly universal health care coverage with a bill passed overwhelmingly by the legislature Tuesday that Gov. Mitt Romney says he will sign.

The bill does what health experts say no other state has been able to do: provide a mechanism for all of its citizens to obtain health insurance. It accomplishes that in a way that experts say combines methods and proposals from across the political spectrum, apportioning the cost among businesses, individuals and the government.

"This is probably about as close as you can get to universal," said Paul B. Ginsburg, president of the nonpartisan Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington. "It's definitely going to be inspiring to other states about how there was this compromise. They found a way to get to a major expansion of coverage that people could agree on. For a conservative Republican, this is individual responsibility. For a Democrat, this is government helping those that need help."




Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Hey, you, don't get that tattoo...

http://www.hanzismatter.com/

(subject of an nyt article from sunday)

(anyone notice how nyt changed their website)