15% of Americans lack health insurance
Bloomberg.com says 1 out of 7 people (43.8 million Americans) didn’t have health insurance in 2008. With economy showing almost no signs of improvement I doubt the number has gone down. Here is the application chart with all the numbers.
McCaughey gets it handed to her by Ratigan
Ahh! What a pleasure to watch. She’s the same woman who helped kill Clinton’s health care plan in the 90s. How did she do it? Same way she is doing it now… by lying, fabricating facts, and misinforming the American public. Somebody needed to show her, her place and call her out on her lies. [...]
How does the proposed health care plan affect you?
I love NPR but that’s beside the point. NPR has got an excellent excellent interactive application that allows you to figure out just how the new proposed health care plan will affect you. It gives you the advantages and the drawbacks. So, don’t just listen to people feeding you their opinions, read the facts and [...]
A woman becomes pregnant, while being pregnant – WEIRD!!!
An Arkansas woman, 31, became pregnant while already being pregnant. This happened two weeks into her first pregnancy. Basically, she will have a baby and then another one two weeks afterwards. Apparently, it’s only the fifteenth case known to us and is called superfetation (what an awesome name!). She has a super fetus!!! Btw, here [...]
Senate Finance Committee rejects two proposals for health-care public option
I guess it was bound to happen. The Senate Finance Committee rejected two proposals for including the public option plan (one by Rockefeller IV of W. Virginia and one by Schumer of NY), which clearly is a huge setback for Obama. More importantly, it’s a step back for all Americans, especially for us not so [...]
Internet addiction, a mental illness! really?
Yes it is true that people using blackberries or iPhone while having dinner or in other social situations, or even in class is really annoying if not infuriating, but a new Scientific American article suggests that there is actually a debate going on whether or not to include Internet addiction as a mental illness. That’s [...]
Dwight Howoverrated
God damnit! If you watched yesterday’s game 2 of NBA finals as an unbiased spectator or as an Orlando Magic fan (well, in that case, you may as well throw your tv out the window!) you had to be as frustrated as I was with not only the Magic but especially with Dwight Howard. I [...]
Who should we blame, this time? Hmm, easy… Mexicans
Let’s imagine someone has a mental disability that prevents this person from thinking critically on his/her own. How do you find this person? By turning on Fox News or Lou Dobbs on CNN or Pat Buchanan on MSNBC and you have got your mumbling, stumbling idiot. They are now blaming Mexico for the swine flu [...]
“Blame it on the ah-ah ah-ah ah-al-co-hol” Part II
Yesterday after work, I headed over to the campus bar with a couple of friends and since the pitchers were only eight dollars (I know!!!), we got pretty drunk. And in our inebriated stupor, we got started talking about why alcohol causes hangovers that just make you want to kill yourself. Don’t laugh! We are [...]
“Blame it on the ah-ah ah-ah ah-al-co-hol”
Being a teacher, I often get asked why we use alcohols as antiseptics and why it is that most of these so-called rubbing alchohols are 70% ethanol or 70% isopropanol and not 95 or 100%. Even in our labs we use 70% ethanol as disinfectants but if you go and ask your seniors, they can [...]
