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A temperance poster from 1930 displays early War-on-Drugs propaganda technique.
Archive for December, 2010
December 11th, 2010
Category: Climate change, Latin America
Trying to work out what was agreed at the Cancun climate change conference.
December 11th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability, Palin
Sarah Palin is everywhere from Time Magazine to the Wall Street Journal to Dancing with the Stars. Yet when it comes to disability policies of critical importance to millions of families facing similar challenges to those facing her, she remains MIA.
December 10th, 2010
Category: Leadership
Mike Lux nails it: The President’s greatest mistakes don’t concern strategy—they concern morale.
December 10th, 2010
Category: Drug Policy, Health and Medicine
On Stanford Medical School’s blog, I describe some recent studies highlighting the prevalence of drugged driving in the United States, including a survey in which 10 million Americans admit driving under the influence of illegal drugs in the past year. In Australia and much of Europe, drugged driving has been recognized as a public health [...]
December 10th, 2010
Category: Health and Medicine
MomsRising has started an online campaign to encourage the IRS to consider breast feeding equipment a legitimate medical expense. This would allow moms to use funds from tax-sheltered health savings accounts to purchase pumps and other breast feeding equipment. Their case seems sound to me, so I am posting the link where you can sign [...]
December 10th, 2010
Why do small Rio flats have separate servant´s entrances?
December 8th, 2010
Category: 2011 Democratic Agenda, Leadership, Liberalism, Rhetoric and Framing, Watching Conservatives
Positions on the tax-cut debate are dividing across three separate dimensions. And on all of them, the differences among Democrats are slight compared to those between us and Republicans.