Archive for the ‘health’ Category
Drunk Driving PSA by Denis Leary
Posted in health, Transportation, Videos, tagged Denis Leary, drunk driving, PSA, public service announcement on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Special Comment on Health Care
Posted in Economy, health, Public Policy, Reality Bites, tagged health care reform, Keith Olbermann, medical care, National Association of Free Clinics, politics on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Take care of your teeth — you don’t know how you might need them.
Posted in Foreign Affairs, health, tagged Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Benedetto Strampelli, Giancarlo Falcinelli, opthalmology, osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis surgery on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In 1963 an Italian eye doctor, Benedetto Strampelli, came up with a way to restore lost vision — osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOK) surgery — but it was another Italian ophthalmologist, Giancarlo Falcinelli, who was able to work out problems which had kept it from being widely used. It’s astonishing. It involves transplanting one of your teeth into [...]
Frozen Food Review
Posted in Comic Relief, health, Something to Eat, tagged food review on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Swanson Hungry Man All Day Breakfast comes frozen, and if you care about yourself at all, it should stay frozen. If you are looking for a way to kill yourself but can’t bring yourself to pull the trigger on a gun or don’t have access to a quantity of appropriate pharmaceuticals, a week of [...]
The Last Laugh
Posted in health, how we live, tagged cigarettes, nicotine, Perique tobacco, R.J. Reynolds, smoking, tobacco on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I may be forced to quit smoking by the asshole brigade that has decided that, yeah, taxing cigarettes to the point where the average working person cannot afford to smoke is the thing to do. Something about saving us from ourselves. Well, a hearty fuck you to all you folks who thought that was a [...]
Give This Guy A Cigar.
Posted in Economy, health, Public Policy, tagged Economy, healthcare, national health, public health, wages on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(TPMCafe) The media coverage of the auto bailouts has focused on the need for union autoworkers to take big pay cuts, causing them to once again miss the real story. The Fiat-Chrysler deal shows that the pay problem is at the top, not the bottom. At the end of the day, the new Chrysler is [...]
Abortion: “Safe, Legal and Early.”
Posted in health, Historical Information, how we live, tagged abortion, Ellen McCormack, pro-choice, public health on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Steven Waldman at Inside Politics Daily: My fantasy is that if the political system embraced the safe, legal and early doctrine, a few activists might even accept the legitimacy of part of their opponents’ argument. Pro-choicers who accepted this framework would be implicitly conceding that, for at least part of the pregnancy, there’s a “baby” [...]
