Top 10: Health Care Policy Demands

My sister, who spent a career in medical education & research administration, gathers a top 10 list. Call your senator or representative now, tell them you want real change NOW. You can bet people making huge $$ off the current system are lobbying hard for the status quo.

Dear Senator Hagan: Stop blocking, start leading on health care reform

A letter from a constituent to Senator Hagan of North Carolina.

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,

An open letter from my sister to her Governator. Her idea would work in my state and others, too.

Maybe I fell asleep in highschool logic class,

My sister provides a guest post, pointing out a few situations that seem to be highly illogical.

Burps, not farts!

Drat. Sounds like all the fun is gone. Ezra Klein blog says cows do most of their damage from burping.

Does Eating Local Matter?

A recent study shows that most of our food’s carbon footprint happens during production. Not so much getting from the farm to your fork.

Cookstoves and Scooters: Modest tech takes on huge 3rd world issues

Replace cookstoves and retrofit scooters to improve standard of living, health, and environment.

Cow Farts and Global Warming

Yes, Rep. Boehner, cows do fart. Snicker all you want, but this releases a lot of methane, and that’s an even worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Intestinal humor is no reason to ignore the climate change…Cartoon from www.ohiomm.com

National Leadership or Electoral Gamesmanship?

Some national policies, whether right or wrong, have clearly been followed for the wrong reasons. Our national government should govern for the national interest, not to pander to narrow interests that happen to be well-placed in the electoral college.

Is that tea spiked?

“People should remember that while they have the right to their opinion, they are not entitled to be taken seriously. That only comes from having credibility gained by the correct presentation of facts and analysis and a willingness to be even-handed–criticizing one’s own side when it is wrong and not only speaking up when the other party does the same thing.” – Bruce Bartlett, in Forbes.