As if there weren’t enough reasons to not use heroin, here is one more for those of you still weighing the pros and cons of a life of drug-enduced poverty and misery. According to medical researchers, heroin use leads to an insoluable protein called tau to be meshed into the brain’s “tangles,” and it is […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I just starting contributing to Calblog and put up my first post which concerns the increasing medical costs associated with the California’s three-strikes law. In general, I support the law and believe that it has been a contributing factor to the state’s lowered crime rate. That said, according to the LA Times, there are hundreds of prisoners […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)When Robert Kraft (owner of the New England Patriots) and a group of American executives had a meeting with Russian leader Vladmir Putin, Kraft handed Putin his gaudy 124–diamond Super Bowl ring. Putin fitted his finger with the ring, removed it, and in characteristic Russian style slipped it into his pocket.
Inquiring minds want to know did Kraft […]
Sam Yorty’s America has a parallel take to Jill Stewarts “circular firing squad of California Republican hardliners,” which we wrote about a few days ago. Mayor Sam comments:
The opportunity exists for Republicans to capture the votes of disaffected Democrats - Democrats who are not big on taxing and spending, who don’t go for racial politics […]
I got up a little early this morning because I knew there would be a lot to digest in the LAT’s analysis of the President’s speech. I was also interested to see what Independent Sources new work-in-progess logo looked like.
After reading today’s “New Analysis” column which was dedicated to the speech, I decided to quickly […]
Did some googling on various permutation of the exact phrase “conservative (newspaper name here) columnist” and found:
“… New York Times…” — 564 hits (Safire, Brooks) — we also noted only 440 hits for “liberal …” for an editorial page that hosts Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman!
“… Washington Post …” — 130 hits (Will, Krauthammer, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In another stunning example of the fallibility of juries, HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy walked away a free man Tuesday after a jury cleared him of all charges in a stunning setback for federal prosecutors who sought to add his name to a list of CEOs convicted of fraud.
Scrushy’s exoneration probably won’t sit well with the […]
If you are looking for comprehensive Tour de France 2005 coverage check out this link.
We’d also like to thank TDFBlog for pointing to Luke’s pre-race analysis. Despite Luke’s being a little upset at our editing of some of his French crowd commentary, we’re pretty sure that he’ll be sending us additional insights.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing.net travelled to SF for the opening of the new Lucas campus at the Presidio, and reported that California’s most obnoxious statewide elected official is annoying even when her mouth is shut, she’s sitting down, and cameras are pointed the other way:
… One thing that didn’t make it in to either story: […]
From a box on the front page of today’s print Wall Street Journal promoting stories in their Personal Health section:
Some Workers Will See Drug Co-Pays of $100
‘Placebo Effect’ May Help Doctors Treat Children
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Google’s Shares Top $300
I know that we are not a stock board. If we were we’d have things like this:
You shorts are in trouble wait for the cramer load the truck I was right all along I am never wrong. I had a load of those guaranteed march 195 calls he said 210 so i […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“County Might Outsource Hospital” — headline, Los Angeles Times, June 28, concerning the latest plan to deal with dysfunctional Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center
Odd, isn’t it, that when Los Angeles County runs into a brick wall trying to fix a major public hospital, it proposes privatization — which in this case means “fire everyone […]
“There are lots of children who are abused and abandoned,” Levin said. “They feel an exceptional amount of powerlessness, and they grow up and compensate by being CEOs and businessmen.”
Others, he said, turn into the BTK killer.
Professor Jack Levin, director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University, in the Los Angeles […]
From IMDB here is the plot summary to Robin Cook’s seminal movie “Coma”:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having ‘complications’ during simple operations and ending up in comas.
Sound familiar? At Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, the situation is so screwed up […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This is a headline from today’s Los Angeles Times:
Allstate to Settle Rate ClaimsThe insurer will pay a state fine and repay $30 million to clients who may have been overcharged. It admits no wrongdoing.
Note to Allstate: When you agree to pay $30 million dollars to settle a claim of wrongdoing by the California Insurance Commissioner, […]
