Granted I still use floppies to a limited extent, mostly while ghosting fresh images quickly. So, while a tad premature, here’s a send off to a very nearly dead technology.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care | Wired Science | Wired.com
Unless you can’t get over the concept that other countries do things differently – and sometimes better – than we do it in the US, give this article a read.
Cuban doctors are renowned for being well-trained and well-skilled and we could do worse than to listen to the top docs in this hemisphere.
Pampered Heiress Decries Obama’s Economic Plan to Bow-Tied Dandy – Republicans – Gawker
Best. Title. Ever.
Ivanka Trump bitches about the President’s economic plan. Some of her complaint is that there isn’t enough focus on jobs.
Wait a minute.
Isn’t her current gig working for her daddy? Isn’t part of that gig being part of his TV show where he fires someone every week?
Map of the Day: Cousin Lovin’ | Mother Jones
Surprisingly – and somewhat sickeningly – you can marry your cousin in most of the US. I mean, outside of the South anyway.
And yet we think we’ve got a handle on things.
The Washington Post Cannot Tell Obama From Malcolm X – Corrections – Gawker
And I thought The Washington Times was the D.C. newspaper that thinks all blacks look alike. Guess the Post really is sucking up to their conservative readers.
The Rachel Maddow Show – McDonnell lets Jesus back into Virginia
After coming into office as governor of Virginia, he’s stripped rights from his citizens, attempted to return to Jim Crow era laws and officially celebrated treason, among other things. With all that hate and bigotry on his menu, what was missing? Oh yeah, conservative Hate Jesus.
And there ya go.
Weird baseball contract clauses – CNN.com
This one is a fun read about the silly crap people agree to.
Mike Smith’s World – Las Vegas Sun
Fruit, Veggie, Cheese or Yogurt: Smart Snacks Make a Difference | GeekDad | Wired.com
I like this philosophy of only offering kids tasty, but healthy, options late in the day for snacks.
Then again, Gabriel isn’t often offered sweets or pastries and really, really like snacking on red pepper slices. So I’m kind of a target audience for this.
Eugene Robinson – Arizona’s new immigration law is an act of vengeance
I like Eugene. Here he is telling it like it is.
Activists for Latino and immigrant rights — and supporters of sane governance — held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn’t the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim — and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state — would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish?