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Archive for 2013
October 19, 2013
IF OBAMA WANTS A DELAY, REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE MERCILESS: Is the White House Now Thinking the ‘Unthinkable’ about Obamacare?
HOW HOLLYWOOD CAN CAPITALIZE ON PIRACY.
MYSTERY SOLVED: Cat helps dog escape kitchen.
WHERE LAND ROVERS go to die.
LONG-TERM TEST REPORT: 2013 Honda Accord Sport Sedan.
TROUBLE AT THE LAB: Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not. “There is no cost to getting things wrong. The cost is not getting them published.”
IN THE MAIL: Sir Walter Scott’s Crusades and Other Fantasies.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 163.
LEFTIES ATTACK TED CRUZ, POST HOME ADDRESS ONLINE.
THE HILL: Poll: Government trust nears record low. “The survey also found that a record-high 30 percent say they are angry at the federal government — further evidence that the brinksmanship that enveloped Washington earlier this month upset voters across the country.”
I WISH THIS WOULD EXTEND TO TENNESSEE: Amazon Begins Shipping Wine to New York, Michigan. But thanks to ferocious lobbying from liquor sellers, we don’t even have wine in grocery stores.
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AT LEAST, NOT AMONG HETEROSEXUALS: Meds That Prevent HIV Infection Don’t Spur Risky Behavior: Study. “Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle found that knowing they are protected against HIV transmission doesn’t change how these people behave sexually or lead them to have sex without a condom more often.”
THIS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA: States enact laws to stock epinephrine at schools.
When a third-grade student who had been stung by a wasp developed welts on his neck and had trouble breathing, school nurse Amanda Williams had the necessary dose of epinephrine to counter the allergic reaction.
A law Tennessee enacted this year makes it easier for schools to stock the life-saving drug. Williams said the emergency room doctor told the boy’s parents that he probably wouldn’t have survived without the injection at Tellico Plains Elementary because it’s a 30-minute drive to the nearest hospital.
“It would have been tragic,” she said.
Fifteen other states enacted similar laws in 2013, joining 11 others that already had them, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. While only four of the states require schools to have the medication on hand, all the laws allow schools to stock it without a prescription for an individual person — a legal hurdle in many places — and provide legal protection for staff members who administer it.
With the rise of self-help and automated medicine, this sort of thing will be a trend, I think.
October 18, 2013
BUT THAT $15/HOUR MINIMUM WAGE IS THE BEES KNEES: Starbucks To Be Taken Over By Robot Baristas?
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Ladies, would you date a man who weighs less than you do?
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON THINKS space exploration is government work for government workers.
KARL BOCK, WHO BLOGS AS “CHEF MOJO” AT BILL QUICK’S PLACE, HAS CANCER (AGAIN). If you’d like to help, you can donate here. I gave.