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materialistic addiction

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

There’s an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called Symbiosis which focuses on a dependent relationship between two neighboring planets. A long time ago, one of the planets (Ornara) became more technologically advanced, while the other (Brekka) languished. Then, a terrific plague struck both planets, and the cure was found in a [...]

ron paul mass donation day

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

On November 5th, 100,000 people will give Ron Paul $100 each, for a total of $10 million for the campaign. Well, maybe—currently there are fewer than 5000 pledges. But wouldn’t that be neat?
http://www.thisnovember5th.com/

why socialized medicine is wrong, wrong, wrong

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

5 reasons to reconsider before jumping on the socialized medicine bandwagon.

What if I don’t want traditional health care? Traditional health care as I see it: (1) muddle through life, eating doritos, getting minimal exercise; (2) get sick; (3) go to the doctor; (4) doctor prescribes some drug pushed by big pharma, and that probably causes [...]