Laughing Meme » progressive http://laughingmeme.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:54:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gladwell on the “The Moral-Hazard Myth: The bad idea behind our failed health-care system” http://laughingmeme.org/2006/01/24/gladwell-on-the-the-moral-hazard-myth-the-bad-idea-behind-our-failed-health-care-system/ http://laughingmeme.org/2006/01/24/gladwell-on-the-the-moral-hazard-myth-the-bad-idea-behind-our-failed-health-care-system/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:46:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=3211 a commenter on the HSA reminded me of this excellent piece.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050829fa_fact

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http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/index.html#008934

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2006/01/24/coverage-of-the-health-savings-accounts-that-bushco-will-unroll-at-the-state-of-the-union/feed/ 0 Chelsea Green, Publishing for the Network http://laughingmeme.org/2005/01/28/chelsea-green-publishing-for-the-network/ http://laughingmeme.org/2005/01/28/chelsea-green-publishing-for-the-network/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:27:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=1009 Chelsea Green is a little press that is going to the network (both social and tcp/ip based) to push an agenda of getting timely important information out to the world. They’ve been definitely running a higher profile since publishing Lakoff’s new pamphlet, so it is great to see them still experimenting.

Their most recent book, Guantanamo: What the World Should Know has Ellen Ray interviewing the excellent Michael Ratner (long time council for Center for Constitutional Rights). They’ve been giving copies away to bloggers who signed a statement opposing a pro-torture Attorney General, and are now allowing NarcoNews to serialize it online. I wonder if an open book data exchange might be next?

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