The MLK Test for Presidential Candidates

The MLK Test for Presidential Candidates

Happy Memorial MLK Birthday Day. Have you wondered what Dr. King would think of the presidential candidates if he were alive? Barack Obama gave a speech took the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – the same church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. helped rev up the civil rights movement. “If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community. “The divisions, the stereotypes,…

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Thor Hesla Killed By the Taliban

Thor Hesla Killed By the Taliban

Thor Hesla was killed on January 14th, 2008 in an attack by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan. I may have met Thor once or twice, but I didn’t know him. My perspective on this tragedy is that I know his father, Professor Emeritus David Hesla. David Hesla is a beloved and somewhat eccentric professor, one of the original members of my home department of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Among other things, he wrote the…

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Which Discworld Character

Which Discworld Character

Yeah, I like Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books… so…. Which Discworld Character are you?created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Lord Havelock Vetinari You are Lord Vetinari! Supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork! Cool, calculated, and always in control. You graduated from the assassins guild, but failed a course on stealth and camouflage, because the professor never saw you there (even though you attended every class). You always seem to know what everyone is thinking, and after a conversation with you, people feel that…

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MedFICO: New Healthcare Profiling in the Works

MedFICO: New Healthcare Profiling in the Works

I am complete agreement with Jolly Roger’s post Uninsured? Insured, But Poor? DIE, Deadbeat at Reconstitution 2.0, in which he speculates about the ultimate purpose of MedFICO. MedFICO is a new Healthcare Analytics product that assesses healthcare payment risk. Already, payment history is being gathered from hospitals around the country in order to develop records that will predict “how likely patients will be to pay future medical bills.” Don’t tell me that this isn’t some kind of a screening process…

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Today’s Links

Today’s Links

Just some things that caught my eye… The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World | Cracked.com Why We Flirt | Time Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out | Paulitics Congressman calls hearing after White House report shows 473 days of email ‘missing’ | Raw Story Bush’s Contempt for the Law | Washington Post Former JAG lawyer: Only America ‘parses’ torture | Raw Story Canada places U.S., Israel on torture watch…

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