Random links
- NHS makes patients wait 'to lower expectations’
- "At least 10 primary care trusts (PCTs) have told hospitals to increase the length of time before they see patients in order to save money, an investigation by The Daily Telegraph has found. In some areas, patients endured delays of 12 or 15 weeks after GPs decided they needed surgery, even though hospitals could have seen them sooner." There are also reports of people in British hospitals dying of dehydration or starvation though some of that could be due to medical conditions preventing nutrients from being supplied.
- What Would a Utopian 15 Hour Work Week Really Look Like?
- A fairly skeptical response to John Quiggin's fairly positive article on the topic.
- Lies You’ve Been Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch
- The most common photo associated with it is from the Manila harbour, not the mid-Pacific. What it's actually like - "There are millions of small and microscopic pieces of plastic, about .4 pieces per cubic meter, floating over a roughly 5000 square km area of the Pacific" - and how it's impacting the environment.
- Loy Mauch, Arkansas Lawmaker, Defended Slavery In Letters To The Editor
- An Arkansas Republican who's remarks include that slavery "may have been a blessing." Roughly 2003 is where this starts to become explicit - he'd made more generic pro-Confederacy comments prior to that though.