GOVERNMENT MOTORS UPDATE: GM Is Alive. Drivers Are Dead. Any Questions?

IF YOU LIKE YOUR DOCTOR, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR. PERIOD. UnitedHealthcare to cut doctors for Mass. seniors. “National insurance giant UnitedHealthcare plans to cut up to 700 Massachusetts doctors from its physician network for seniors enrolled in its private Medicare plan as a way to control costs, according to company officials. For elderly patients enrolled in the plan, the cuts mean they will have to find a new doctor or eventually switch to a new health plan that covers their current doctor.”

MICKEY KAUS: Cantor’s Mistake.

MALE PRIVILEGE, CIRCA 1944:

HOPEY CHANGEY: Dems Glum About Economy Despite Upbeat Jobs Report. “Democrats, who, let’s face it, need some cheering up these days, are taking no pleasure in the jobs report. That’s because about half the country still thinks we’re in a recession. Even though the economy continues to grow — glacially, and fitfully — huge swaths of the country are not seeing any noticeable improvement.”

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WELL, THAT MAKES SENSE: Neurotic Robots Act More Human.

NOW THAT’S JUST SAD: Professor Fired After Pic Appears On Beer Can.

RATHER A LOT, REALLY: How many errors can William Greider make in two sentences describing Lochner v. New York?

SHOCKER: TSA ‘Abusively and Arbitrarily’ Using Security Designation to Hide Information.

BRITAIN: Parents arrested for “child cruelty” because son is too fat.

OUCH: Benchslap Of The Day: The D.C. Circuit Calls Out A Top Law School Professor.

THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW: Popular Science: Stop Looking For ‘Hardwired’ Differences In Male And Female Brains.

Balderdash. It’s perfectly fine to discover differences between men and women, so long as you are careful to portray women as superior.

JOURNALISM: “Question: When does the NYT want us to care about the impact of gun control laws on a convicted felon? Answer: When it’s an occasion to portray Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as lacking in empathy.”

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE:

University officials love to complain that they don’t get all the state and federal money they’d like. They don’t complain, though, about the huge subsidies they get from governments via the subsidized tuition their increasingly indebted student bodies fork over. Scratch a whining provost and you find an executive in one of America’s most secure, sclerotic and administratively top-heavy industries.

Some bright thinkers in that industry, such as law prof and higher ed author Glenn Harlan Reynolds at the University of Tennessee, offer innovative ideas that would complement Obama’s push for more consumer info about colleges. In essence, Reynolds contends that if Muffy or Biff gets a loan, State U. collects tuition and fees but suffers little if Muffy flunks out and Biff can’t land a job. Instead, Tom and Tess Taxpayer often bear a cost.

Reynolds thinks colleges that benefit from subsidized loan money should be liable for part of the debt if a student defaults: Schools would have incentives to accept applicants who have a reasonable chance of graduating — and to warn prospective and enrolled students, loudly, that college loan money isn’t free.

Yep.

GOOGLE INVESTS BILLIONS IN satellite Internet access. This will make government censorship — and maybe spying — a bit more difficult, which is good.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: A technique for using MRI to detect molecules released during brain injury could lead to quicker emergency diagnoses.

ADVICE TO WOMEN: Why Divorced Men Are Best To Date (And Marry.) “His resistance has already been broken down by another woman so that you don’t have to endure the push back yourself.”

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