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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/23/09

    In reply to Catastrophe, Disaster, Calamity and a Kayak.
    I just don't think those mini-front pages are tremendously enticing. I hate them in pic stories, I just don't see how they help in news roundups. "Gee, that #5 has lots of colours, I think I wanna read that one!"
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Post and News Do a Good Foot Job
    They are being unnecessarily callous in their reporting.
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    11/20/09

    @scroll_lock: No, it's just that their humor is a bit arch.
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    11/20/09

    @blix: You two heels have no sole.
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    11/20/09

    @alboy2: You're right instep with us. Well done!
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    11/20/09

    @blix: Makes me laugh! Thanks.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/19/09

    In reply to Why Newspapers Love to Print Costs and Percentages
    Exactly right. Pundits and politicians have been pulling numbers out of the sky for a long time and the papers just print them
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/19/09

    In reply to Why Newspapers Love to Print Costs and Percentages
    Since you are so big into comparing costs here Ravi, what is the cost to insure, at a basic stripped down high deductible plan, about 35 million people for 10 years? Is it less than about $24k per person, because that is what my calculations show without the reduction in Medicare payments (which will be cost shifted).
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    Image of Ravi Somaiya Ravi Somaiya
    11/19/09

    @momof3wildkids: [www.newyorker.com]
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/19/09

    @Ravi Somaiya: That was truly a great article on the differences in the way health care is delivered and paid for in this country.

    However, the only real numbers that are cited there are Medicare costs (about $15k/yr/person in McAllen Tx). The health plan proposals are not talking about insuring those already on Medicare. A twenty year old who doesn't have insurance will not cost more than a couple hundred bucks a month. Less if it is a high deductible plan. Older people, obviously, have much higher health care costs. Medicare numbers really aren't apples to apples.

    Regardless, the article was definitely worth my time to read and I appreciate you sharing it.
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    11/19/09

    @Ravi Somaiya: Good reference. I read from it that doctors practice capitalism and insurance, all insurance, public and private, is simple socialism. The doc is allowed for some reason a gross conflict of interest in prescribing tests and hospital stays in which he is an investor, and a patient feels cared for and is only in the game for a slight ante, a share of cost, and Blue Shield isn't close to bankruptcy, because it puts its subscribers to sleep with monthly taxes in the form of premiums to pay individual costs. By gawd, it's a Ponzi scheme, in which nobody in the circle realizes the extent of the problem.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to China! Breasts! Weed! Baboons! Michael Jackson!
    Hrm, I think I like this Gawker version of "In the Papers."

    Needs a little Roger Clark though. Not that most things in this world don't.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to China! Breasts! Weed! Baboons! Michael Jackson!
    The cigarette-n'-donut breakfast is delicious, I grant you, but have you tried the Swisher Sweet-n'-churro?
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    11/18/09

    In reply to China! Breasts! Weed! Baboons! Michael Jackson!
    The NYT story about smart ways of letting people in financial trouble in Philly keep their homes is a public service, and is *way* more important to more people in this country than prognostications about China that will take months and years to be proven true or not true. Domestic news is *way* more important to readers than overseas thumbsucker/chinscratcher stories, no matter how much the foreign desk likes them.
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Everyone Loves Breasts
    Bazonga! #media
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Everyone Loves Breasts
    "Apparently Engelbert Humperdinck wasn't available."

    That's because he's living in my garage apartment, under the name "Steve." #media
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Ring the Bell, School Is in, Sucker
    Ravi, are you telepathic? I had an idea a few weeks ago (it didn't hurt), to wit, wouldn't it be interesting to survey the major newspapers on a regular basis. Have you seen this done before? Or did we both come up with the same idea independently, about the same time? #media
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Ring the Bell, School Is in, Sucker
    "The Washington Post: has a picture that may kill thousands. It certainly put me off getting a swine flu shot - the needle is actually in the little boy's arm"

    Someone at the WaPo photo desk either has a short memory or a wicked sense of humor, putting a big photo of a kid with a needle in his arm in that paper.

    [www.time.com]

    [www.museumofhoaxes.com]

    [dragon.soc.qc.cuny.edu]

    [books.google.com]

    If they had gotten that shot for the heroin/kid story on "Jimmy's world" -- oh, wait, that wasn't real. Never mind. #media
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Ring the Bell, School Is in, Sucker
    I hate to defend the Post, but that movie might be awful. #media
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Warning Signs of the Fort Hood Killer Were Missed, Still Not Clear
    How lovely that the FBI, CIA, NSA, et al have finally learned to cooperate in the years since 9/11. I'm looking forward to our sprawling bureaucracies once again being exposed for grand mal incompetence. #media
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Sex, Drugs, FBI Failures and a Grandmother in a Headlock
    This is all fascinating, I'm sure. But really, how does this play out on Daily Candy? #media
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Sex, Drugs, FBI Failures and a Grandmother in a Headlock
    I like this feature a lot -- it could go the direction of "The Wayward Press."

    [www.time.com]

    [www.slate.com]

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    There is way too much speculation, minute fact gathering, and gotta' get something for the sake of getting it by all these papers on the Ft. Hood situation. Stop it, newspapers. Focus on what matters in your communities: jobs, schools, housing, public institutions and their successes and failures, local people making a difference, who's lining their pickets via the zoning board, who's stealing from the nursing homes, who's afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. The other stuff is what wires are for.
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    Image of Ravi Somaiya Ravi Somaiya
    11/14/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Thanks! I celebrated this over-generous compliment with much Bavarian yodeling and bottom-slapping. (Which is from my favourite AJ Liebling piece, btw.) #media
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    11/15/09

    @Ravi Somaiya: Awesome. The CJR and AJR could be doing this, but they seem always to be worrying about much smaller things. #media
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