Archive for November, 2009
Back in the Days of Indoor Smoking and Skinny Ties, They Made Jazz Like This
It’s the day before Thanksgiving. Most folks are home for the day, making ready for the celebration tomorrow, so how about a little jazz to help? Trane. Miles. New York, 1959. The song is “So What”. You can almost smell the cigarette smoke in the air and the slight must from the studio, can’t you? [...]
Innovation? New Drugs? Nah…We Can Cope.
Reason TV does some pretty good work. This video is a good quick look at why the easy “drug companies are shameless profiteers” slogan isn’t particularly accurate and what punishing drug companies for making money will do to the production of new drugs.
Information Wants to Ask the New York Times Whether to Be Free or Not
Wait, I thought the media were supposed to want to uncover the hidden mechanations of government. Whatever happened to speaking truth to power and “information wants to be free” and all that stuff? I guess maybe information better start asking permission from the New York Times first. And as a nice sequel of sorts to [...]
What? Another Podcast?
There have been some interesting and exciting things afoot at Take That Radio, home of The Delivery (and you do listen every week, yes?) and many other very good podcasts. One of them is a brand-new podcast called Right This Way, which is basically a roundtable discussion, taped on Friday night, featuring as many Take [...]
Also, They Own the Announcers
Here’s a nice little video illustrating why government-run health care will eventually become the only game in town. They could probably just have gotten a LeBron slam-dunk highlight reel to fill in as the government, what with his phantom third-step and all, but I guess the rights would have been too expensive. What? I’m just [...]
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