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bigtkirk

  1. Stunning. 40% of NYC residents are on Medicaid? online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
  2. New HCT blog post Hyde Park on Hudson: bit.ly/JJyeSh
  3. That JP Moriarity sent a 17 year old girl to jail for a day b/c he didn't know her case doesn't make him look better: bit.ly/JIdoCW
  4. New HCT blog post Let's Rock: bit.ly/LQSeP4
  5. New HCT blog post Improving Cancer Care: bit.ly/Lbyoit
  6. New HCT blog post Why We Get Fat: bit.ly/KVpmrv
  7. So, I wonder what Larry Moriarity plans on doing after his stint as a JP?: bit.ly/L4QJO5
  8. New HCT blog post Religions and Babies: bit.ly/L39zoF
  9. New HCT blog post How to use a paper towel: bit.ly/KYLorJ
  10. Darn those confounding variables! blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/0…
  11. New HCT blog post Why are so many things broken?: bit.ly/KUO0GO
  12. And classy, too. “@Hlas Iowa has just one player on the PGA Tour, but it's a really good one.”
  13. The barely acknowledged inhumanity of economic sanctions. econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/…
  14. New HCT blog post Miles Davis, 1959: bit.ly/KRbU6b
  15. Holman Jenkins explains one of the reasons why investors are betting on Facebook. online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
  16. I want a backyard like Dave Pelz's. online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
  17. New HCT blog post Breaking the four minute mile: bit.ly/KoZkvC
  18. New HCT blog post Fighting an epidemic of bad laws: bit.ly/KmuAfd
  19. Or a parking lot. RT @JeromeSolomon: Hell, had they turned the Dome into a drive-thru carwash, . . , debt would have been paid by now.
  20. In Houston, we love urban boondoggles. chron.com/news/houston-t…