November 12, 2008
Wednesday, November 12
- "The whole world is “in turmoil” and disaster looms on every corner." So let's do what we always do during strait times... Let’s Go Christmas Shopping! with The Anchoress!
- Coyote Blog: Republicans to Receive Bailout from Congress
- How to save 40,000 postal jobs: "Mandate that the entire federal government use the United States Postal Service, and the USPS alone, for sending all of its correspondence and goods. No more Fedex, no more UPS, and no more DHL..." Postal Woes ｫ Acre of Independence
- The Accidental Cure? A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS - WSJ.com "The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days."
- Federalist Paupers on Why We Need Better Elites Honestly, our present elites suck. They really do condescend, and their ideas are awful.
- The Apotheosis of George Washington
These old-fashioned commodities are generally thrown into the back ground of the picture, and treated, as the grandees at the London and Paris routs, treat their good old aunts and grandmothers, huddling them together in the back rooms, there to wheeze and cough by themselves, and not depress the fine laudanum-raised spirits of the young sparklers.
- Curious Expeditions presents The Curious Playboy If life at its grandest is your oyster, then Willie K. Vanderbilt II was born a pearl.
- Beyond wishful thinking: "The national Treasury is an echoing, empty vault; our Russian and Iranian enemies are acting even more wolfishly even as they sense a repudiation of Bush-Cheney; the lines of jobless and evicted are going to lengthen, and I don't think a diet of hope is going to cover it."- Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
- Everything you recycle is headed for the same landfill.As world demand falls, prices for recyclables go in dumper
- Unqualified Reservations: President Obama, with a little perspective "In case you hadn't noticed, the current euphemism for "communist" is "progressive."
- How OxFam Perpetuates Poverty (and thereby itself)Painting Pictures of Poverty — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy
- If you liked their wars, you'll love their economics: Coyote Blog: European-Style Political Economy Coming to America
- Buzzkill from Mars: Phoenix is Dead, Spirit is Failing
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Bone marrow transplant has also been used successfully to eliminate Multiple Sclerosis--an auto-immune disease.
How unfortunate that a cure for HIV will lead to a return to the practices that brought it to us. Let us name the next monster disease Human Stupidity Virus.
Posted by: james wilson at November 12, 2008 8:41 AM