November 8, 2009
Health Care Bill PASSES in House
What, you’re not up at 11 p.m. EST watching C-SPAN? Well, that’s weird. Almost there …
… and, passed. Historic.
November 7, 2009
UPDATED: Winner! Sports Blogging: Zenyatta is the Story for the Breeder’s Cup Classic
And, we have a winner!
Zenyatta is insultingly referred to as America’s sweetheart, but horse racing aficionados know better: She’s an undefeated powerhouse taking on the boys for the first time in tomorrow’s Breeder’s Cup Classic at the famed Santa Anita racetrack in California.
Here is the five-year-old mare working out Oct. 31. Get all the Breeder’s Cup stories at Daily Racing Form.
November 6, 2009
Science Friday: Giant Pumpkin
Sticking again with fall themes, this week we have a 1000-pound pumpkin. Watch it here and below.
AARP Endorses House Health Care Bill
The tragedy at Ft. Hood will rightly overshadow the fact that today, the AARP endorsed the House health care bill, which could be on the floor this Saturday.
“Under the House plan… insurance companies will not be able to reject you or charge you an outrageous premium because you got sick once, you may get sick again, you lost your job, you’re over 50 years old or because your employer dropped your coverage,” said A. Barry Rand, chief executive of the 40-million-member association for older Americans, in an article posted its website. “Millions of Americans will start to regain control over their lives.” The press conference about the endorsement — the first time the organization has backed a specific bill out of the others floating out there — is embedded below.
November 4, 2009
Google Rules?
Perhaps. On Fresh Air, Ken Auletta talks about his book, “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It” (Penguin Press), which traces the history of Google, the now ubiquitous group of services that infiltrates nearly every part of online life. Is a healthy questioning of Google’s power–and what amounts to an assumption that the way it does things over the Internet will dominate for the foreseeable future–in order? Auletta seems to argue that the answer is yes.
One of the very important questions Auletta asks, vis-a-vis Google, is this: What price free?