Links: 2010-01-05
In addition to these non-finance links, I am also adding a few missed items to the financial news links post that I caught after I originally published it. Hat tip to mark Thoma on these.
- Observations: Obesity is now just as much of a drag on health as smoking (This may be a major reason the U.S. is off the grid in healthcare spend to life expectancy correlations.)
- Nurse home visitation program reduces girls’ potential criminality later in life
- Songbird Lands Deal With Philips, To Come Bundled With Millions Of Portable MP3 Players
- Nexus One review — Engadget
- How Does TheLadders Get People To Pay $30/Month To Access Job Listings?
- Mobile Ad Impressions On Android Double Since October – Tech Crunch
- Demand for Android phones makes ‘monstrous’ 250% jump
- Al Qaeda Threat Escalates – WSJ.com
- Chinese Evade U.S. Sanctions on Iran – WSJ.com
- The resurrection of Howard Dean – Kenneth P. Vogel – POLITICO.com
Howard Dean as the best expression of the left end of the Democratic Party? That’s about right. The man tells the truth about who the insurance care bill was aimed at helping and then turns around and announces that he’ll support it! Vintage Howard Dean, the sensible person’s pick for schmeggege of the week.
And here the dilema faced by serious people that recognize that the system that oppresses them is, in fact, unitary, and that the notion of “partisanship” is simply a ruse intended to direct attention away from their lack of alternatives. So today the choice is between a Howard Dean that hates the health care bill but votes for it and an Olympia Snow that hates the heath care bill but votes for it. Where is the benefit to the American people with slugs like these? Truth be known, there is none yet the circumstances which make this so are inalterable short of a massive public uprising.
Ask yourself, is Howard Dean Schmegegge Of The Week? Yup!
I kind of like Dean and his pitbull style. Did he get onboard the healthcare express too? I am out of the loop on that one.