SOME ANIMALS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN OTHERS Here in America we hear about the sanctity of property. The right opposes inheritance taxes because it mean money gets “double taxed.” The über rich news magnate justifies the behavior of Fox and the rest of News Corp because, after all, he[...]
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December 1st, 2011 - 12:20 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Seattle Segregation
Seattle is a city with almost no open bigotry … at least none of the usual stuff about being dark-skinned or gay. We do have our own issues of course … we sure do a good job of hiding any evidence of Chief Seattle or his descendents. What really bothers me is our self segregation. [&[...]
November 28th, 2011 - 5:56 am § in Misc.
REPUBLICANS OUTMANEUVERED?
It is beginning to look as if Obama has been taking lessons from Muhamed Ali! Remember “rope a dope?” Ezra Klein at the WASHINGTON POST makes an amazing point … if the Democrats simply accept the triggers resulting from last weeks Super Committee crash, the result is a deficit[...]
Taking Money Back to 1492
Back in the day, Spain was awesomely rich! All Ferdinand and Isabella needed to do was to sends ships to America, pick up some gold and few slaves, bring the stuff back and … MONEY!!! Having expelled the smart folks … the Jews and Muslims, the triumphant Spanish Chrsitians, figured this [...]
November 22nd, 2011 - 9:32 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: What The Super Committtee Debacle Means for the NIH
Yesterday President Obama was asked how he would respond to any effort to block the automatic spending cuts without corresponding abandonmment of the huge tax cuts Bush made for the very wealthy. Obama’s sho9srt answer was “NO.” “I will veto any effort to get rid of those aut[...]
BREAKING NEWS: The UAE …. something is happening.
The Emirates airline placed a blockbuster order for 50 $18 billion in Boeing 777s at the Dubai Air Show last Sunday, despite growing fears of stalling global growth. This deal adds to the evolution of the UAE as the outpost of American influence in the middle east. A role oddly parallel to the[...]
Our mismatch between the skills required for available jobs and individuals with those skills is growing faster than all but one other state, Delaware.
The Magic of “Computational Thinking” Training More Folks Who Can Get Jobs? In response to OPED at the Seattle Times. Rosemary McAuliffe, State Senator and Ed Lazowska , UW Prof. pof Computer Science Like evangelicals of the past, Senator . McAuliffe and Professor Lazowska, have a [...]
John McKay: The residual remnant of the rational republicans
Is John McKay the remnant of promise in the Republican Party? The Seattle Weekly has a long paen of praise for John McKay, mostly centered around his support for regulated but legal sales of pot. The article, however, says something else. Nina Shapiro describes something quire important, a rationa[...]
No Free Lunch, No Cheap Drugs
Xconomy News: Weston, MA-based Biogen Idec, the largest maker of injectable treatments for multiple sclerosis, met its goals in a second clinical trial for an oral pill to treat the disease. The pill reduced flare-ups by 44 percent when taken twice per day, and by 51 percent if taken three times a[...]
Has WASTATE benefited from its tobacco money?
Cutting-edge research is whittled by state Over at Crosscut, John Stang bemoans the fact that less money than expected has gone into Chris Gregoire’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund. grew out of the tobacco settlement with big hopes for promoting health and jobs in Washington. Stang’s ar[...]