Funny Or Die video.
In the best traditions of mockery.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Work Force Demographics
A very cool interactive chart. Click on MALE and then on FEAMLE to get a rather jarring look at the way the mix has shifted over the years.
I don't know what any of it really means, so if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear 'em.
I don't know what any of it really means, so if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear 'em.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Fun With Maggots
A young woman who produces Nature Documentaries recently returned from a trip to Belize with a small stowaway - see video
Oops
Your Missile Defense Tax Dollars hard at work.
(I don't really know what this is - I'm trying to track it down - it just seems like the kind of thing that happens when you give too much money to some government yahoo)
On Obama's decision to nix the Jr Bush deal with Poland and Czecho: Why deploy a weapon that doesn't work to defend against a threat that doesn't exist?
(I don't really know what this is - I'm trying to track it down - it just seems like the kind of thing that happens when you give too much money to some government yahoo)
On Obama's decision to nix the Jr Bush deal with Poland and Czecho: Why deploy a weapon that doesn't work to defend against a threat that doesn't exist?
Ezra Klein - WaPo
Klein's piece in The Washington Post
Some things that really stand out:
"The average health-care coverage for the average family now costs $13,375, according to Kaiser. Over the past decade, premiums have increased by 138 percent. And if the trend continues, by 2019 the average family plan will cost $30,083."
"Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, a researcher at the Rand Corporation, and David Cutler, a health economist at Harvard, recently estimated the savings that could be attained by "modernizing" the system over the next 10 years. The changes they examined weren't dramatic. Replacing paper records with computerized files, making it easier for people to comparison-shop across insurers, "bundling" payments for the treatment of a single illness rather than shelling out separately for each doctor visit -- that sort of thing. Added up, they equaled a startling $2 trillion over 10 years. That's a lot of money for policies that have received virtually no attention in the debate."
I think this as a 2-part problem and we have to try fixing one part at a time.
Part One = the cost of Insurance
Part Two = the cost of Care
Some things that really stand out:
"The average health-care coverage for the average family now costs $13,375, according to Kaiser. Over the past decade, premiums have increased by 138 percent. And if the trend continues, by 2019 the average family plan will cost $30,083."
"Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, a researcher at the Rand Corporation, and David Cutler, a health economist at Harvard, recently estimated the savings that could be attained by "modernizing" the system over the next 10 years. The changes they examined weren't dramatic. Replacing paper records with computerized files, making it easier for people to comparison-shop across insurers, "bundling" payments for the treatment of a single illness rather than shelling out separately for each doctor visit -- that sort of thing. Added up, they equaled a startling $2 trillion over 10 years. That's a lot of money for policies that have received virtually no attention in the debate."
I think this as a 2-part problem and we have to try fixing one part at a time.
Part One = the cost of Insurance
Part Two = the cost of Care
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Pysanky
We have a bunch of Ukranian Easter Eggs (pysanky) that Irene's mom has created thru the years. Once in a while, something goes wrong and we lose one of them. In this case, it looks like the egg leaked and began to spoil the dye, so we had to put it down.
Luckily, we can preserve something of these unique little treasures in digital form.
Luckily, we can preserve something of these unique little treasures in digital form.
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