Today’s NYT reports that the senate is about to pass a bill requiring any and all employers to get Federal approval before hiring someone–under the guise of immigration “reform.” My own Ohio Senator Rob Portman is trying to make the…
“Quickstart Guide: jQuery” full of errors
It amazes me that authors of books on coding languages (PHP, JavaScript, etc) let their books come out with so many errors.To be a successful coder one must be obsessive-compulsive about avoiding typos and other syntax errors. Yet in their…
Marc Hauser’s “Mistakes”
Consider: Marc Hauser, a Harvard University professor, reportedly admits, “I acknowledge that I made some significant mistakes.” He has been placed on leave and been judged by a his university to be “solely responsible” for eight instances of scientific misconduct.”…
That Morning 40 Years Ago
November 5, 2008 Trying to sort out my thoughts and feelings this morning. They keep going back to that morning in 1968, when I walked back up Demptster Street in Evanston after playing tennis with my wife, and turned on…
L-D debate–Ethics and Economic Sanctions
I’ve recently received an unusual number of requests for copies of an old article of mine, “On Shunning Undesirable Regimes: Ethics and Economic Sanctions,” Public Affairs Quarterly 3:2 (April 1989), 15-26. Turns out that the current resolution for the Lincoln-Douglas…
Economic Justice, Health Care Reform-Economics, Health Care Reform-Justice, Heath Care Reform, Politics
Palin adds to incivility
As reported in the Cleveland PlainDealer, former Alaska governor Palin is contributing to the incivility. She not only called the Obama health care proposal “evil” but made ridiculous claims about an Obama “death panel.” When she asks, “Who will suffer…
Alan Katz also calling out lack of civility
Alan Katz, one of the more prolific bloggers on health care reform has also spoken up against the lack of civility. I don’t think I agree with all of his positions, but his blog seems to provide a lot of…
Paul Krugman on Target
Paul Krugman’s column yesterday in the NYTimes is important to read. He points out the un-American manner in which many are opposing health care via shouting down Members of Congress and even making death threats. He also points out that…
Economics, Justice, and Health Care
Some major points from someone who has trained in both philosophy and economics: Health care insurance exists to protect one against catastrophic loss. Ordinary health care costs should be part of a household’s normal budget, like other “necessities” such as…
Acronym of the decade award
Any other competitors for “Acronym of the Decade” award? EUCALYPTUS = Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems Doc Searls wrote (Linux Journal), “But, why should The Cloud consist only of proprietary back ends? How about…