Archive for March, 2009
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
half of people of color in new mexico without health insurance
I recently made my nth trip (of the past few years) to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where my friends run an amazing, innovative, and quite revolutionary medical clinic (fair-priced; integrative; acupuncturists and naturopaths and midwives in addition to docs and NPs) for the uninsured. I’ll write more about that experience, but I may move to ABQ, [...]
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Perspective
Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack You are six times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack [...]
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
On homelessness and protection of people vs property
This week on LA Metblogs, Travis Koplow wrote a post about his participation in/observation of the Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council. On the agenda for the meeting he attended was the issue of squatters in foreclosed homes. He said this: But last night I went to my neighborhood council meeting for the first time and the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in culture,housing,los angeles by anjali
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Step 9 of “The End of America”
Below: Step 9 of the 10 steps a country takes as it moves towards fascism. The clip is from the forthcoming documentary The End of America, based on Naomi Wolf’s book and speaking engagements. Naomi Wolf = brilliant. Also check out the official movie trailer at the official The End of America documentary website.
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Obama reframes and restructures earmarks issue.
Beautiful. “And I also find it ironic that some of those who rail most loudly against this bill because of earmarks, actually inserted earmarks of their own, and will tout them in their own states and their own districts. These practices hit a peak in the middle of this decade, when the number of earmarks [...]
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
You Dropped a Bomb on Me (the song)
Came across this video by the Gap Band. Love it. I can’t embed it (the youtube user has disabled embedding) so check out the link…
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Claire McCaskill should be the Senate leader
And this is why:
