A new study in The Lancet by a team of Yale epidemiologists finds that Medicare for All would save more than 68,000 lives annually as well as $450 billion in cost from r/science

What is not mentioned in the headline is the cost of Medicare For All.

task list hoarding and invisible burdens

I keep carrying around more stuff than I need as I move between work and school. Every object is basically an item on a todo list, and like a task list I always overestimate what I am going to accomplish because admitting what I am actually going to get done makes me anxious and sad. It's like I'm task hoarding.

It's like living in a crappy Jane Austen novel

I'm not sure there was a time when marriages were not transactional. Unbridled patriarchy probably contributes more to this than a bad economy.

In 2017, just over half of women in their early 40s with a high-school degree or less education are married, compared to three-quarters of women with a bachelor’s degree; in the 1970s, there was barely a difference. The marriage gap for men has changed less over the years, but there the trend lines have flipped too: Twenty-five percent of men with high-school degrees or less education have never married, compared to 23 percent of men with bachelor’s degrees and 14 percent of those with advanced degrees. Meanwhile, divorce rates have continued to rise among the less educated, while staying more or less steady for college graduates in recent decades.

Let us not fetishize our writing workflow, as if writing everything down will somehow forestall the loss and death that awaits us.

Why Kill Soleimani Now? - The Atlantic

Why Kill Soleimani Now? - The Atlantic: Two administrations sidestepped this debate when it came to Soleimani, not as much for legal or moral reasons as for strategic ones. The two sides of this conflict have opted for other forms of confrontation, from proxy fights to sabotage to cyberattacks to sanctions, but they didn’t kill each other’s generals. Now that barrier has been shattered, leaving the world to await Iran’s next move in a game with suddenly higher stakes. From the Iranian perspective, it doesn’t much matter whether the U.S. administration considers Soleimani’s death an assassination or not. He’s still a dead general.



Like the prohibition against killing kings in medieval Britain.  The unwritten rules of warfare.

Julia Roberts is like barbecue sauce.

"Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it’s too sweet, it’s bound to be hiding something." 

Lyle Lovett

 I'm wondering if this is a reference to Julia Roberts.

Keep skating!

The second most inspiring thing about this amazing race is seeing Apollo Ohno jump up immediately after falling and lunge for the finish line.    He's not going to throw away a silver medal because of a minor setback.