Okay, this is really very funny. To say a bit more on the Nevada Health Care Forum, everyone basically made the points you’d expect, Obama signaled that he’s moving in good directions, and Hillary Clinton suggested she would offer legislation for nationwide community rating, which would be welcome. But no real news was made. More […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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Rate States vs Cumulative Stats
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Comparing the top performers in WP-48, which is a rate statistic, to the top-PER performers, which is dependent upon playing time (as well as how many opportunities your coach and teammates give you handle or shoot the ball), is definitely an apples-to-oranges comparison, roughly akin to comparing total rushing […]
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Arguing Health Care
Is Megan’s problem with health care writing really that the literature is too narrative-driven? Yikes. She should read some issues of Health Affairs, or the Annals of Internal Medicine, or the New England Journal of Medicine. This is not a debate that lacks for data. Meanwhile, Megan actually gets a few things wrong in her […]
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Re: Terror Attacks
Reader Nate W. comments: I’m not sure either factor you mention – the grandiosity of an airplane crash or the humdrum banality of an attack at a Walmart – is the compelling factor in how much a terrorist attack affects the culture at large. Much more important, it seems to me, is whether the attack […]
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SCHRODINGER’S REPORTING.
SCHRODINGER’S REPORTING. Ana Marie Cox, who’s been doing really fine blogging (and Michael Kinsley-baiting!) over at Swampland, does my heart good by suggesting to her colleagues that how the Edwards‘ announcement gets covered is a function of how they cover it: I’ve been thinking really hard about Jay’s points from his piece yesterday. His argument […]
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The Penn Is Mightier Than The Card Check
Mark Schmitt writes: The bottom line is I kind of keep track of [Hillary pollster Mark] Penn. And like every good Washingtonian with a few million dollars in mortgages, he seems to hold at least three jobs at once: He’s Senator Clinton’s pollster and political advisor. He runs his own corporate polling firm, Penn, Schoen […]
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Terror Where?
Megan has a rather…exercised post about how much she hates airport screening, but I found this comment interesting: There was a massive line for security screening when I flew back from Las Vegas last August, probably 500 people or more, snaking around through rope barriers. What this snaking meant is that most of the people […]
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More Data on Survival Rates
Commenter Umbrella Doc looks into the numbers on Elizabeth Edwards’ breast cancer and comes back with some illuminating data: Since we like studies here, I’m going to look inside the numbers a bit. I’m looking at a study from 2004, which is described briefly here. Looking at women with recurrences from 1974-2000 – they find […]
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On Cancer
I was browsing David Kuo’s blog on BeliefNet, reading through some of his remarkable commentary on cancer and cancer patients. Kuo, the former deputy director of the White House’s faith-based initiatives project, has brain cancer, and he slowly and calmly explains how different the view is from inside such an experience. Kuo writes: Four years […]
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Know Thy Conservatives
I forgot to link to this when it came out, but Sam Tanenhouse’s list of essential readings to understand movement conservatives is very good. I’m mainly glad to see George Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America make the cut, as it should be read by any and every politico interested in how ideas interface […]