How can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything? -Carl Sagan
Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.
-Stephane Hessel (Nazi Resistance fighter)
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Which animals should we kill?
Monday, November 08, 2010
My First Conversation with a Tea Partier
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Hi, I'm a Tea-Partier Video
Saturday, September 25, 2010
A Few Nudges Might Help
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Benefits of Health Care Reform Coming to You
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Abigail Disney: Taxes Make Our Country Great
"Disney, a filmmaker and philanthropist, spent a lot of time shooting a film in Liberia. [Abigail Disney] says there, unlike the United States, there are no safe roads or schools and therefore no safe investments. And she says those who make money in a secure society like the U.S. also owe the society a debt.
She joined a group of wealthy individuals called United for a Fair Economy in part, she says, because she felt wealth is fundamentally unfair.
Warren Buffett and Robert Rubin are also members of United for a Fair Economy.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Remake The Dietary Guidelines into FOOD Guidelines
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Breastfeeding: Why the health benefits aren't enough to increase rates.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Protect Bikers and Save the World @lacbc @laist
1. Adopt a target level of bicycle use (e.g. percent of trips) and safety to be achieved within a specific timeframe, and improve data collection necessary to monitor progress.
2. Provide safe and convenient bicycle access to all parts of the community through a signed network of on- and off-street facilities, low-speed streets, and secure parking. Local cyclists should be involved in identifying maintenance needs and ongoing improvements.
3. Establish information programs to promote bicycling for all purposes, and to communicate the many benefits of bicycling to residents and businesses (e.g. with bicycle maps, public relations campaigns, neighborhood rides, a ride with the Mayor)
4. Make the City a model employer by encouraging bicycle use among its employees (e.g. by providing parking, showers and lockers, and establishing a city bicycle fleet).
5. Ensure all city policies, plans, codes, and programs are updated and implemented to take advantage of every opportunity to create a more bicycle-friendly community. Staff in all departments should be offered training to better enable them to complete this task.
6. Educate all road users to share the road and interact safely. Road design and education programs should combine to increase the confidence of bicyclists.
7. Enforce traffic laws to improve the safety and comfort of all road users, with a particular focus on behaviors and attitudes that cause motor vehicle/bicycle crashes.
8. Develop special programs to encourage bicycle use in communities where significant segments of the population do not drive (e.g. through Safe Routes to Schools programs) and where short trips are most common.
9. Promote intermodal travel between public transport and bicycles, e.g. by putting bike racks on buses, improving parking at transit, and improving access to rail and public transport vehicles.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Obama Understands the Importance of Primary Care
But, he noted, Medicare will pay $30,000 for a foot amputation that results from the ensuing diabetes.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Bring back Home Economics: JAMA Editorial
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Mr.Evil Creates Fake Charities to Fight Public Interest Groups like MADD, CSPI, and the Humane Society
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Colbert's Salt Shaker
Friday, April 30, 2010
Meat as Source of Antibiotic Resistance
Friday, April 16, 2010
Insurance companies hold billions in fast food stock
Monday, April 12, 2010
Exodus, Collectivism, and the USA
Sunday, April 04, 2010
The Brain Needs to Travel
Monday, March 29, 2010
Health Reform Benefits Our Families #hcr
- Insurance companies can no longer drop someone when he or she becomes ill
- Young adults can stay on their parents' health insurance plan up to their 27th birthday
- Health Insurers must now reveal how much money is spent on overhead
- New health insurance plans must cover checkups and other preventative care without co-pays
- New measures will be implemented to help eliminate health insurance waste, fraud, and abuse
- Small businesses (fewer than 50 employees) will get tax credits covering up to 50% of premiums
- Seniors on Medicare will get a rebate to fill the "donut hole" in their drug coverage
- Insurers will be required to put more premiums dollars toward actual health care services, not administration, advertising, or profits
- Insurance premium increases will be have to be reviewed and justified
- Lifetime caps on the amount of insurance a person can have will be banned
- A temporary high-risk pool will be set up to cover adults with pre-existing conditions