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Price Gouging By Hospitals Needs More Airing

                                  The Murky World of Hospital Prices – NYTimes.com.   “The price for a joint replacement with artificial hips or knees ranged from a … Continue reading

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We will not solve our climate problem by adjusting the width of streets.

            We will not solve our climate problem by adjusting the width of streets. Incremental changes will not save our cities. Cities will be saved by designing car free areas of areas up to a … Continue reading

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Baseball is continuous. Society is not. Cyber will change all metrics once it gets past the infantile gadget stage.

The text below is a comment on the following: Identifying the “Sabermetrics” of Urbanism | PlaceMakers http://buff.ly/1938esZ Well now er um. As an old Doxiadis auditor, I am familiar with this thinking in a younger iteration. As a born and … Continue reading

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Jesus favors proactive help, justice, fairness and tolerance.

1051. Jesus favors proactive help, justice, fairness and tolerance. 1051b. Jesus favored community organization. By his own example. 1051c. Jesus believed we could do what he did. 1051d. Jesus did not respect property over human rights. 1051e. Jesus was about … Continue reading

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Nothing is LESS free market than our military-industrial, oil-car-corporate, bank-on-dole economy

Nothing is LESS free market than our military-industrial, oil-car-corporate, bank-on-dole economy the GOP sucks up to. I tweeted this following a long – for Twitter – discussion that typically pitted reason on the left against smoke from the right. It … Continue reading

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