Month: May 2010

On blogging

I started this blog towards the end of last summer, mostly as a place to talk about health care reform.  I found that I was

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Sometimes I despair

I’m having a week.  Today, someone dared to tell me we have the “best health care system in the world”.  He’s lucky I have restraint.

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Hurricane + Oil Spew = !

Earlier this month I couldn’t find answers to my question expressed as Hurricanes + Oil Spill = ? As predicted, folks are thinking about this,

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My Own Private Oil Slick

Andrew Revkin of the NY Times Dot Earth blog provides some links to terrific ways to visualize the Deepwater oil spill gusher and its effects.

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The Ambrosini Critique

In a guest post on Ezra Klein’s blog, Mike Konczal brought my attention to Will Ambrosini’s blog The Ambrosini Critique. It appears to be serious

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Once more with feeling

Like a bad penny, the SGR (sustainable growth rate) keeps on turning up.  To review: The “doc fix” stems from the method used by the

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Top Kill Specs

I feel guilty relishing the engineering ingenuity of the Deepwater top kill attempt. I’m reminded of the fascination I had with the physics details of

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Deepwater Depression

When something shows up in my dreams I know it is time to deal with it. Last night it was the Deepwater oil spill and

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