Chopping up the baby
I’m going to start right out by admitting that I am going to raise questions to which I do not have a coherent answer. In the comments to Rose’s post about buying “green” products, Jason shared a link to this… Continue Reading
Month: June 2012
Does buying green make you a schmuck?
I have been interested for some time about the effect of essentially useless moral badges. By “moral badges,” I mean moral choices that one makes as a statement of one’s values, but have very low expected utility. Whether or not… Continue Reading
Tuesday Questions, benevolent stupidity edition
By way of answering last week’s Question, Maribou offered up this lovely little recollection regarding a particular song: [I[t was the song I listened to incessantly as I was (subconsciously) bracing myself to drop out of college and move down… Continue Reading
Open letter to various visitors to our flower garden
Dear all, First of all, thank you for visiting our garden. It is small, yes, but I get no small pleasure from it, and hope you do, too. It allows me to pretend that I don’t live in an utterly… Continue Reading
With bated breath
As Burt notes over in Not a Potted Plant, we will know the fate of ObamaCare on Monday. This is the first time I’ve ever had a personal stake in a Supreme Court decision. I mean, I suppose we were… Continue Reading
The Atlantic is not a medical journal
I feel like I gripe about the health coverage in the New York Times and Slate a lot, and so this morning it is refreshing to have come across a lousy health article in another estimable publication. This morning’s contender… Continue Reading
Co-opting the Montessori Report Card
I send my oldest kid (4 1/2 years old) to a local Montessori school. I’m talking totally old-school, completely unreconstructed Montessori. Nearly bare and hushed classrooms, practicing silently walking lines, washing tables, etc. They actually have a picture of Maria… Continue Reading
Because we could all use a break from Inequality
I’ve decided to toss off a few random thoughts from my own wee corner of the medical world. 1) Whither the manscaping, teens of America? Don’t you want to take a few moments to enjoy your new tokens of puberty… Continue Reading
On inequality and healthcare
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. Nothing is so equalizing as morbidity and… Continue Reading
Dance 10, Looks 3 – Inequality of Talent and Looks
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. This is cross-posted on the main page.… Continue Reading