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In Alleged Health Care ‘Money Grab,’ Nation’s Largest Hospital Chain Cashes In on Trauma Centers

Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News June 14, 2021 After falling from a ladder and cutting his arm, Ed Knight said, he found himself at Richmond, Virginia’s Chippenham Hospital surrounded by nearly a dozen doctors, nurses and technicians — its crack “trauma team” charged with saving the most badly hurt victims of accidents and assaults. But Knight’s wound, while requiring about 30 stitches, wasn’t life-threatening. Hospital … Continue reading In Alleged Health Care ‘Money Grab,’ Nation’s Largest Hospital Chain Cashes In on Trauma Centers

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We’re here today to ruin Mothman

Politics is very complicated but if there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s apparently that we’d like the world to be run by cryptids. Bigfoot? Sure. Cthulhu? You betcha. Sasquatch? That’s kind of just Bigfoot under a different name but alright. A giant meteor? That’s not really a cryptid but we’re game for it. Cryptids – animals or pseudopeople that don’t exist, probably … Continue reading We’re here today to ruin Mothman

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Politics

It’s been a while since we checked in on former president Donald – oh, no

George W. Bush, a fan of famed British politician Winston Churchill, was inspired by Churchill’s essay “Painting as a Pastime” to take up the art of painting himself. Painting has given him something to do since leaving the White House in 2009; Bush is now 74 years old, younger than the current president and his immediate predecessor and although ARTnews described him as “inelegant” and … Continue reading It’s been a while since we checked in on former president Donald – oh, no

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Biden, LGBTQ+ rights, and the duty to defend

News broke in the late afternoon Wednesday that the Biden administration plans to continue to defend the federal government in Hunter v. Goldberg, what could potentially be a major case for LGBTQ+ civil rights. The case stems from the Trump administration and deals with the right of religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ+ students and it’s the kind of thing you would not expect the … Continue reading Biden, LGBTQ+ rights, and the duty to defend

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Politics

We already have a multiparty system. We should act like it.

Two-hundred and nineteen of the current members of the U.S. House of Representatives are members of the Democratic Party. Two-hundred and eleven are members of the Republican Party. In many countries, this would imply that roughly half of MCs are aligned with one party and roughly half are aligned with the other party. Like so: This is the way we almost always think about, discuss, … Continue reading We already have a multiparty system. We should act like it.

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Washington and Lee can’t find a new name, so it’s sticking with this one

Virginia’s Washington and Lee University announced Friday that its Board of Trustees had voted in favor of keeping its name, which honors the first U.S. president, George Washington, and a famed traitor, Robert E. Lee. The preservation of the name came as something of a surprise to some, as many institutions are dropping Confederate names (including Washington and Lee, which is renaming the Lee Chapel, … Continue reading Washington and Lee can’t find a new name, so it’s sticking with this one

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Americans hate HOAs. Why do so many people live in them?

It’s February. I am sipping a mint julep and pretending that summer has arrived and quarantine is over when my friend, who we’ll call Mary, sends me a question over Discord. “Why,” Mary asked, “is every house I could afford to buy located in an HOA?” It’s a good question. Mary, 30, is a millennial, and above all the other things it means to be … Continue reading Americans hate HOAs. Why do so many people live in them?

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Our Long National Nightmare

Trump probably won’t run in 2024, but that doesn’t mean Senate Republicans were right to acquit him

The United States Senate, in its infinite wisdom, says Donald Trump is not guilty of inciting a riot in January on the grounds that although he absolutely did do that and should be convicted he is no longer in office and therefore, apparently, cannot be. This result, though not unexpected, is going down poorly, in part because the legal consensus is that Trump absolutely could … Continue reading Trump probably won’t run in 2024, but that doesn’t mean Senate Republicans were right to acquit him

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Deqification

In the aftermath of World War II, the victorious Allies faced a daunting task. Not only had the war had a devastating impact on Germany’s industrial and economic might – since mangling the German industrial machine was essential to defeating its military – but the Allies were faced with a territory that had undergone years of intense propagandizing. Stationed for many years in Berlin, CBS … Continue reading Deqification

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