Well, what were the chances of this happening? Odd twist in TB alert: Patient is TB researcher’s son-in-law May 31, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – As information piled up in the case of a man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis (TB) who took multiple international air trips, it was revealed today that he […]
Archive | May, 2007
We’re #96! We’re #96!…
It took some searching, but it seems we’ve found common ground with Iran. We’re ranked just ahead of them on Global Peace Index. We’re #96 – they’re #97. Out of 121 nations ranked using 24 indicators ranging from involvements in wars in the last 5 years and defense spending to domestic violent crimes, prison populations […]
Denver to host special tuberculosis patient who flew home on commercial airlines
A man from Atlanta has extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), and he’s coming to Denver’s National Jewish Medical Center, one of the foremost authority on respiratory diseases in the world. No problem, and it’s almost certainly not the first time that National Jewish has receieved a special respiratory illness for treatment. No, my problem […]
McCain smiles and nods politely as O’Reilly openly advocates racist, sexist government that discriminates on the basis of religion
You don’t really look to Bill O’Reilly for coherence, intelligence or even the most basic grasp of reality. But if you’re like me, you do occasionally fantasize that there are limits to his craziness, or at least to the things that he’ll say out loud. But check out what he says in this interview with […]
Bob Novak hypes Fred Thompson, and for good reasons
Nattering nabob Robert Novak says in his latest Evans-Novak Political Report that ex-Sen. Fred Thompson is “a strong Republican presidential prospect because of the weaknesses of the GOP’s ‘big three.’” He continues: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) remains anathema to social conservatives. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is having dreadful fund-raising problems. Former Massachusetts […]
Things I’m getting sick of hearing…
First this, reported by Salon.com: Hillary Clinton is having to defend herself against attacks that she accepted flights aboard the jet of Vinod Gupta, a Clinton contributor. Clinton defended herself by noting that she was simply playing by the rules regulating use of private jets by members of Congress. “In line with Senate rules then […]
It pays to get an education – not students, of course…but lenders…
Salon.com reports in a recent article that the Republican administration has let approved student financial aid lenders milk taxpayers for hundreds of millions of dollars in excessive interest on student loan. The scheme was simple enough – reclassify loans that had been regulated at a lower interest rate so that the government loan program could […]
Shame on the White House (for officially recognizing homosexual unions and “play house” parenting)
Boy howdy, The Dick’s lesbian daughter and her “partner” done pizzizzled off The Parents Group. I hate to actually excerpt anything from this release because it’s all so good, but let me see if I can find an especially juicy bit. Ah, here’s one: If the Vice President and his wife Lynne are joining their […]
Hubris: something both Democrats and Republicans have in common
The image to the right is a Japanese representation of the “black ships” commanded by Matthew Perry which, in 1853, forced open trade with Japan for US commercial interests. A few may scoff that this sounds like Bush policy. Some of us think that it is US policy no matter who is in charge. What […]
You remember me yarping about “e Coli conservatives,” right?
In my series of posts on the whole melamine poisoning issue recently you might recall me breaking off the term “e Coli conservatives” in talking about how our regulatory function has been co-opted by people who see protecting industry as a more important calling than protecting, you know, us. Well, y’all are gonna love this […]
Time for legislatures to act on behalf of women
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that gender discrimination must have occurred within 180 days of filing the complaint – even if the discriminiation occurred gradually over years or decades. My fellow S&R co-blogger Robert Silvey blogged about this yesterday the decision was released (Women need not apply). Reading Justice Alito’s suggestion that corporations needed […]
The looming macro-succession crisis
I was reading a Seattle Times story earlier today on how men in their 30s are earning less than their fathers did. An interesting story top to bottom, but the concluding section drew me back around to something that I really haven’t talked about enough lately – the looming generational macro-succession nightmare facing corporate America. […]
Who can Fox News get to pad their ill-fated Dem debate?
With the latest news that of the current 2008 Democratic presidential candidates, only rantin’ grandpa Mike Gravel, kindler gentler racist Joe Biden, and “Peace Gnome” Dennis Kucinich are bothering to show up for Fox’s debate in a few months, I’m wondering who the pseudonews network could call on to fill the seats that Clinton, Edwards, […]
Women need not apply
By Robert Silvey The Roberts/Bush Supreme Court has delivered another crushing blow to women. In a 5–4 decision, with new justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito in the antiegalitarian majority, the court held that “employers should be protected from lawsuits over pay discrimination linked to gender or race and based on decisions made or acts […]
What fresh hell is this? Our newest scholar/rogue…
By Rori Black The Scholar and Rogue on our masthead is Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967). Dorothy Parker is best known for her caustic wit as a writer, poet, critic, and a founding member of The Algonquin Round Table. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- IRS/Tea Party controversy: progressive groups “targeted,” too, and corporate media once again refuses to tell Americans the whole truth
- “Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaborators
- The time a source has to respond to request for comment? Virtually none.
- Profiling the Tea Party: In defense of the IRS. Sorta. Or not.
- Saturday Video Roundup: “Imagine the Band,” by John Lennon and Wings
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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