Take A Look...

It's still in a book, but Reading Rainbow isn't on tv anymore.

This video seems to be everywhere so I'll just go ahead and pile on...

Read This Now - Daily Rations

Ezra Klein neatly shoots down the myth that health care reform will lead to rationing. Why was his post so easy to write and this popular canard so quickly dismissed? Because we already ration health care...

We ration. We ration without discussion, remorse or concern. We ration health care the way we ration other goods: We make it too expensive for everyone to afford.

(quick addendum, I had stopped reading EK when he moved to the WaPo and my reader was swamped, but everyone with any interest in healthcare reform should make sure to get their daily dose.)

the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

photo from 538

Ted Kennedy passed away last night.

One can only hope that his death, tragically yet fittingly, will serve as a rallying point for the passage of health care reform for which Kennedy had been fighting for more than 30 years.

Greg Sargent offers a nice run down of the coverage at the Plum Line.

NPR has terrific content up, with an array of old photos, interviews and stories.

The New Yorker has pulled together some of their many profiles of Kennedy.

The NY Times offers comprehensive coverage and an often touching personal portrait...

He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of white hair, his florid, oversize face, his booming Boston brogue, his powerful but pained stride. He was a celebrity, sometimes a self-parody, a hearty friend, an implacable foe, a man of large faith and large flaws, a melancholy character who persevered, drank deeply and sang loudly. He was a Kennedy.

Quote Of The Day - Fear Itself

Paul Krugman on why politicians say the things they do...

We talk a lot about ideology, we talk a lot about the influence of moneyed interests, and all that is relevant. But we should not ignore the sheer personal cowardice of many politicians. Here we have Grassley saying, in effect, that he was afraid to tell a constituent that she was wrong — then trying to blame President Obama for his failure to tell the truth.

Follow the link for the background.

Who Cares About Climate Change?

Apparently not Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who's claiming that the mild hurricane seasons of the past few years are the result of prayer notes that he left or had left at the Western Wall in Jerusalem asking God to protect Florida from storms.

Take that global warming.

You have got to be kidding me.

Keeping It Local

So I once again have a neighborhood bookstore, and The Regulator would like to remind us all of the importance of keeping it local...



(via the neighborhood listserv)

Best Thing I've Seen All Summer

In who's reality do we reside?

Orwell and Huxley and which imagined future is more truly our present...

Titled Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen, sorry it won't fit in the Blogger layout.

(via kottke)