Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- US Drops to 49th in the world for life expectancy; #s are really crappy for white Americans too – We keep spending more and more and more than anyone else, but our relative statistics keep going down. It’s almost as though someone were profiting from all that money, rather than actually using it to provide health care …
- Once upon a time in Afghanistan – Remarkable.
- The limits of responsibility – What are the rhetorical lines one needs to cross — both simply and in aggregate — to have responsibility for folks’ actions?
- The “Happy Few” Project – Two weeks to learn & perform the ‘St. Crispin’s Day speech’ from Henry V – Like Doyce, tempted …
- The Hobbit news round-up – Good news, bad news, good news … perhaps it ought to be reshot as a Saturday afternoon serial …
- Scarborough retracts false claim about lefty groups’ disclosure. Will Rove and other righties do same? – What? And interrupt their distracting narrative? Doubtful.
- When a problem and a solution match up nicely: Steve Benen
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