A.M.A. Suggests Compulsory Vaccine Trials
In an article in Virtual Mentor: The A.M.A. Journal of Ethics, after noting that it is mostly the poor who participate in medical trials, and that it is hard … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
The Next Speaker of the House
It is no secret that Speaker John Boehner has little, if any, support in the Tea Party faction of the party. Many have wondered if he will be … Read more
The Super PAC Formerly Known As Colbert’s Releases New Ad
Ad asks voters to vote for Cain, who is really Colbert Since Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, could not get his name on the South Carolina … Read more
Toasted Toddlers
From a South American ad campaign for chocolates with Jack Daniel’s filling. http://twentytwowords.com/ Be seeing you.
Constitutional Amendment Not Needed: Congress Already Has a Remedy
The drive for a constitutional amendment to fix ‘Citizens United’ dangerously leads the public away from demanding that Congress act now using its existing power By James Marc … Read more
Bring Out Your Dead
One of the under-reported consequences of the recession that never seems to end is an overflow at the county morgue. The problem isn’t that more people are … Read more
Man Drowns Self in Whiskey Vat
A 46 year old father of two who was a senior employee at the Glenfiddich distillery in Scotland committed suicide by throwing himself into a 16 foot-high vat … Read more
The 99% As Art
If you look at this installation by Do Ho Suh at the Lehmann Maupin gallery from a few feet away, it doesn’t look like much — just a few square … Read more
Sticking It to Citizens United
From courthouses to statehouses, the pro-corporate “Citizens United” ruling is under pressure by Brooke Jarvis The Supreme Court may have declared in Citizens United v. the FEC that … Read more
