It's up over at Martin's place. His blog came out of nowhere (don't they all) a few months back, and he's hit the ground running.
Just, please, when you get to my section, try not to use your imagination too well. Trust me.
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Since half the blogs on the net seem to be making lists of their favorite movie quotes, I thought I'd add some of mine. Some movies are just goldmines of great lines - Caddyshack, almost any Kevin Smith movie, Bull Durham. Herewith some of my absolute favorites, without the title of the movie so…
Antivaccinationists, quacks, and apologists for antivaccinationists and quacks (but I repeat myself) seem to have an illusion that I'm just swimming in pharma lucre, that I sit in my underwear grinding out magnum opus-worthy after magnum opus-worthy blog posts, all so that I can rake in the cash…
I was cleaning out my filtered junk mail folder, and what do I discover? Mail after mail after mail from a long-banned kook, the infamously idiotic John A. Davison. Davison's is notoriously incompetent: this is the fellow who has created multiple blogs, each with one entry, which he closes when it…
Seeing Martin's mention that he's hit the sixth anniversary of his entry into the awoke a vague sense of unease in me. It was that sort of unease that one gets when one realizes that he's forgotten something but can't quite remember what it is that he's forgotten.
Then it came to me.
Somehow, some…
This is off-topic, but I wanted some doctorly input to a discussion that I am having over at another blog.
This lady is hyperventillating about the "sinister" (her word) policy of the Oregon Public Health Plan.
They won't cover curative treatment for people who have a "less than 5% chance of surviving five or more years"
Instead, they cover palliative treatment, hospice, and Doctor-Assisted suicide.
This lady is setting it up as a moral judgement that the government is making a value judgement on 1,2,3, or 4 years of life.
To me "less than 5% chance of surviving five or more years" doesnt sound like curative treatment doesn't have a very good chance of buying you even one year of additional life. I think that she has an unrealistic view of what it means to have a less than 5% chance of surviving five or more years" means.
Heres the story:
http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/07/28/the-real-face-of-choice/
Hmmm..the question deserves it's own thread...im moving it.