Jesus Creed
Those medievals had some weird ideas for illustrations.
Larry Kudlow’s not too happy about insurance options, then my observation:
May I ask this question? Why is it that Americans don’t have the freedom to choose their own health insurance? I just don’t get it. Why must the liberal nanny state make decisions for us? We can make them ourselves, thank you very much. It’s like choosing a car, buying a home or investing in a stock. We can handle it.
So why must the government tell me and everyone else what we can and cannot buy?
Charles Krauthammer and the Wall Street Journal’s Dan Henninger noted in excellent recent columns that this whole Obamacare business represents the greatest-ever expansion of the liberal entitlement-state dream. But I don’t want that dream. And you shouldn’t either.
(Read more: When insurers drop policies: Three stories)
Here’s what else I don’t want: As a 60-something, relatively healthy person, I don’t want lactation and maternity services, abortion services, speech therapy, mammograms, fertility treatments or Viagra. I don’t want it. So why should I have to tear up my existing health-care plan, and then buy a plan with far more expensive premiums and deductibles, and with services I don’t need or want?
Why? Because Team Obama says I have to. And that’s not much of a reason. It’s not freedom.
Dear Larry, most of us pay premiums through our employer and that means most of us pay generalized patterns, including paying for mammograms and the like — I’m a 60 year old male. Seems not altogether unreasonable when we consider we are part of a group.
America’s most beautiful colleges. Virginia or Stanford — my votes.
Great idea, get rid of the sticky strips and computerize those baggage tags:
New airline bag tags that can be programmed with a mobile phone could make those sticky strips of paper a thing of the past — and maybe even prevent a painful separation between you and your bag. Airlines around the globe are keen to dispense with the bar-coded thermal paper tags they print by the billions and loop onto your luggage.
That adhesive paper is expensive, and the codes don’t keep millions of bags from being lost each year. Worldwide, about 1% of luggage was mishandled last year, costing an estimated $2.6 billion, according to the International Air Transport Association.
“It’s painful [for airlines] in so many ways,” says Richard Wartham, president and chief executive officer of Vanguard ID Systems, a suburban Philadelphia company that makes a radio-frequency identification bag tag. “It’s 1970 technology, you know? But because it’s just such a huge installed base, it’s hard for them to change on a dime.”
If the world were a village of 100 people… 20 simple infographics.
Sad stories of celebrities falling into the ditches, including Margot Kidder:
IN the mid-’90s, the actress — who shot to fame as Lois Lane in four “Superman” movies — snapped! She vanished into Los Angeles’ homeless community, sleeping in cardboard boxes and backyards. She was eventually found hiding outside a Glendale home, with her hair hacked off and minus her front teeth caps. When the owner confronted her, the actress told the woman: “I may not look like it, but I’m Margot Kidder.” Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the 65-year-old now lives in Montana with her daughter. “I’m no longer delusional,” Margot says. “I guess I came to terms with my demons.”
Four tips on how to clean your jeans.
Left handed tied to schizophrenia:
About 10% of the population is left-handed, but 40% of those with schizophrenia are, according to a new study.
That suggests that handedness may be a window into biological markers that predict psychoses, say the researchers from the Yale Child Study Center. While the percentage of left-handers affected by mood disorders such as depression hovers around 11%, similar to the rate of left-handedness in the population, they are more highly represented among those suffering from psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
“In general, people with psychosis are those who have lost touch with reality in some way, through hallucinations, delusions, or false beliefs, and it is notable that this symptom constellation seems to correlate with being left-handed,” said study author Jadon Webb, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the Yale Child Study Center.
Breakfast can be a tricky meal — some people won’t leave the house without their morning nourishment and others never eat when they get up due to lack of appetite or time. But we have all probably at some point in life been told that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” an old saying that actually might be — at least to some extent — true.
No matter what studies and research might say about breakfast — will it help you lose weight? Will you gain weight? — the morning meal is enjoyed in one way or another in countries all around the world. What a typical breakfast plate looks like can also tell a lot about a country’s general food culture, and attitude toward this fast-breaking meal.
The traditional American spread of fried eggs, bacon, toast and possibly potatoes might seem like an oddly heavy way to start the day to someone from France or Japan, for example. In France, the typical morning meal consists of a light snack, such as a baguette with a spread of butter and jam, or maybe the famous “Parisian breakfast” of a freshly baked croissant and a cup of coffee. In Japan, a bowl of miso soup and rice is not uncommon in the morning, and in several parts of the world, a sweet or savory porridge is a common way to start the day.
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