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But If Obama Had Made Jobs We Could Employ People To Install Sidewalks

January 20, 2011

Athenae points us to today’s searing death ray of political brilliance: Michelle Obama’s ‘Get Moving’ Program Linked to Pedestrian Deaths. Ignore my jaw on this keyboard and keep reading. The Governors Highway Safety Association says pedestrian deaths increased in the first half of 2010 and the First Lady’s program to get Americans to be more [...]

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Measured Consumption

October 1, 2010

The Google feedreader has been trimmed down to sources that have a very high chance of containing posts and articles I want to read, a far cry from the online firehose that gave me many little tidbits of news but nothing I could synthesize into storable knowledge. For instance, TechMeme and Gizmodo went right out. Twenty [...]

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All You Can Leave Behind

September 27, 2010

Not dead. Really, I’m not. With travel, work and everything edible and intellectual absorbed during said travel and work, I’ve a lot of catching up to do. I’m also going through what Terry Gross and Andy Ihnatko explore here and here, respectively, i.e. digital information Twitter blog overload cortisol bzzzt. Instead of killing all of my [...]

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Gas Land

June 22, 2010

Oil and gas. I can’t seem to get away from the stuff. My mother once joked that it is in my blood. I was born in a land made obscenely rich by massive oil finds, started out wanting to be a doctor or architect but ended up seduced by rocks and working in the oil [...]

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Fell Off The Bookmobile

June 8, 2010

For the last month, I haven’t touched a book other than to look up formulae, quotes or recipes. Well, that’s not completely true, I haven’t touched a really good book in the last month, which may explain my current aversion to them. A neighbor loaned me Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and I figured why [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Healthcare Panel

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Healthcare panel includes public health Ph.D. candidate and local blogger Holly Scheib, Cecile Tebo, crisis unit coordinator for the NOPD and one of New Orleans magazine’s Top Ten Female Achievers; Dr Elmore Rigamer, medical director of [...]

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Suspect Device On The Public Health Option

July 7, 2009

From Greg, whose lovely wife my parents and I met right after his valve replacement. Like I was saying, “Employment and personal wealth should not be the only ways for an American to access a basic and low-cost yet good healthcare plan.” Especially not when health insurance exists to benefit from the healthy and not [...]

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Karen In Public Health Option Video Spot

July 2, 2009

Below is my friend Karen Gadbois (looking good!) in a MoveOn.org video speaking on behalf of the public health insurance option. Karen is a breast cancer survivor and one of many New Orleanians suffering without proper healthcare since The Flood and what I call Recovery Stalling severely crippled the Charity system.  Honestly, I don’t know [...]

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Day 1273: EPIC SCIENCE FAIL

February 20, 2009

VatulBlog has been quiet for a week.  Mardi Gras and being sick during Mardi Gras can do that to a blog.  The inflammation under my ear is still around, so I bought it furniture and gave it a name.  D refers to it as my second head, so Zaphod was a possibility, but we’re going with [...]

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Day 1136: Unemployed Man Kills Family, Self

October 6, 2008

CNN article Authorities said [Karthik Rajaram] had an MBA in finance but appeared to have been unemployed for several months and had worked for major accounting firms, such as Price Waterhouse, police said. … the victims included Rajaram’s mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, 69, and his 19-year-old son Krishna Rajaram, a Fulbright Scholar and honor student at [...]

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