Month February 2009

Health care posturing

Steve Rhodes photo. Flickr Hidden Unities goes to a free medical clinic filled with people who have lost insurance and twenty / thirty-somethings with serious, painful maladies whose life options are now approaching zero. I just know that in a…

Are we running out of special circles of Hell?

I mean, there’s so many scumbags out there, and only so many circles of Hell. 1) Two U.S. judges pleaded guilty Thursday to accepting over $2.6 million in kickbacks from a private youth detention center in return for them sentencing…

How to solve the subprime crisis

Thomas Friedman Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate our economy: immigration. “All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,” said Shekhar Gupta,…

Another Ponzi scheme?

Charles Ponzi Stanford Group Co., a Houston investment company with assets of $8.4 billion, is being investigated because, surprise, they claim to have made returns of 10-15% on CDs since 1995. “That type of return ignores the business cycle,” said…