From the New York Times:
To the Editor:
Re “Not Paying for Medical Errors” (editorial, Aug. 21):
The proposed new Medicare rules that would refuse payment for medical errors need to ensure that the patients themselves don’t end up bearing the costs.
It seems inconsistent that the Bush administration is trying to relieve Medicare of part of its financial [...]
Here’s the editorial quoted in full because it doesn’t seem to exist in other than a search, which expires. From the August 19th, Philadelphia Inquirer:
Being best at who we are, not who we aren’t
‘You can be anything you want to be, if you work hard enough.”
My daughter once wrote in an essay that this was [...]
In honor of link preservation. I recently read an Op-Ed column from a paper a couple of days old that was lying around the lounge.
I like how it just says it. It’s about time people learn to use what they have and make the most of it and come out from beneath delusions that will [...]
He’s a disease. First a smile, then a nudge, then a wink and I can’t take it anymore. I’ve never looked forward to work more, though. But I realise I need to settle down. It makes it hard to work when work’s come second to getting a glimpse of him, the Winker, the Nudger, the [...]
This city is filled with once-busy factories that made everything from furniture to clothes to toys. Now, they stand empty since the jobs long ago moved elsewhere: Mexico, Hong Kong, China. The luckier ones have been transformed into high end apartments for the yuppies whose high-paying jobs tend to be in the service sector. Prices [...]
Remember how I said I had been chosen to be one of the First Fifty owners and reviewers of the Chumby? Well, it seems it was too good to be true. After the original e-mail telling me I was in the selected 50 and a follow-up e-mail to ask about my WiFi connection there’s been [...]
I’ve been handed the control of plastic surgery now that the service nurse is on vacation. I am plastics Boss. I’m stressed out of my mind.
When I’m stressed, I get snappy and I was snappy today. The Adonis thinks I’m the sterility police.
The first, for the rediscovery of a fantastic album I discovered via cable’s digital music channel when I lived in Boston. I haven’t heard of or about Remy Zero since The Golden Hum (iTunes link) and haven’t listened to the entire album in ages, but today I did and loved it all over again. I [...]