Best of the blogs 04/01/09
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National Geographic: The Cost of Care
The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack …
(c) altemark
National Geographic: The Cost of Care
The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack of health insurance is a factor in life span and contributes to an estimated 45,000 deaths a year.
Snowblog’s back: I have a good feeling about 2010
Can’t explain it – but maybe its going to be a better year, a better decade than we might have expected.
Islam4UK: free speech for bigots?
All of this leaves the principled humanist secular left with a huge headache. After all, if we do not uphold the elementary argument for freedom of speech, who will? So here we are, forced to extend our efforts in support of a manifestation of execrable religious bigotry. It is an obvious sucker punch, and we can even see it coming, but we have no alternative but to walk straight into it.
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