Archive for November, 2005
Monday, November 28th, 2005
You know you’re a wannabe hippie when…
You get your first issue of your new subscription of Utne Reader in the mail! woohoo! And you open the front cover, revealing an ad for a shoe company based out of Santa Barbara, California, that says: It’s called Mad Cow for a reason… if someone made shoes out of you, you’d be pissed off [...]
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
I heart Consejo de Latinos Unidos
California based Consejo de Latinos Unidos brought the issue of ‘price-gouging of uninsured patients by hospitals who receive millions in tax breaks’ to national attention first. Now they’re holdin’ the catholic hospitals to their religion and mission. What happened to “thou shalt not price-gouge your neighbor?” It’s simple — nonprofit hospitals (under which Catholic hospitals [...]
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Reality news and entertaining politics
I love the way Adrienne Marie Brown (a cool cat) answers the age old question: Why do you think youth are apathetic about political involvement? I don’t want to point fingers, but media giveth and media taketh away. This past year media has really tapped youth away from politics. It was already such a blow [...]
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
Save a Turkey?
Hope y’all had a wonderful thanksgiving, whether you spent it with family, friends, or working in the hospital (like some of my fellow interns), and whether you thanked God, yo’mama, or anyone else meaningful to you. My bro and I ate some yummy enchiladas in our vegetarian way of celebrating thanksgiving. Both Nalin and I [...]
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
Isaac and evolution
Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. –Isaac Asimov (thanks to Lindsey for reminding me of that quote)
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
Getting lost is a beautiful thing
Some inspiring thoughts from an interesting article on James West, inventors, patents, and where the US stands in the future of innovation: “When inventors work independently, the invention itself is seen as an opportunity, whereas in the corporate world accidents are seen as failures,” said Peter Arnell, a marketing consultant who coaches companies about innovation. [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
A whole new kinda hole-punchin’
The california voting season is officially over for this year, it ended 30 minutes ago. My brother and I excitedly voted at a community center a few blocks away from our house. There was quite a buzz of people at the polling location. I wasn’t prepared for the hole punchin’ kinda voting. In New Jersey, [...]
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
CA Special Electon: I’m voting with her
I’ve always voted in New Jersey or NYC, so transferring my voting to California was a big step for me. I procrastinated on doing the transfer, but i’m so glad that I did. This special election tomorrow is BIG. As a healthcare provider, I’m extra interested in a few of the propositions, but as a [...]
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
“Be somewhere else now”
From a NY Times Magazine interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti — beat generation writer and owner of the famous City Lights bookstore in san francisco: LF: …it’s high time we honored this endangered species. NYT: Which endangered species is that? Poets? LF: No, the literarians in the world, and there are millions of them. They are [...]
