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By Monday, I get to read the other sections of the Sunday NY Times. Reading the biz section, I came across this article on Costco. Washington-based Costco is the nation’s fifth-largest retailer, according to the article. Prices are cheap, and employees are well-paid and get great benefits, which is CEO Jim Sinegal’s [...]

This is why you’re supposed to let Medicare negotiate for bulk discounts when buying prescription drugs for seniors:
The economics of the new program depend on the assumption that large numbers of relatively healthy people will enroll and pay premiums, to help defray the costs of those with high drug expenses. Insurers say the new program [...]

Ok, he’s convinced me. I’m never going to use the word islamofascism again. I was uncomfortable with the word, but never really knew why. Now I understand, thanks to a random commenter at TPMCafe:
But I also suspect two more contemporary motives:
One is to blur the distinction between militant Islamist fundamentalism (e.g., [...]

A new study out today from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health tells us what we more or less already knew:
U.S. citizens spent $5,267 per capita on health care. The country with the next highest per capita expenditure, Switzerland, spent $3,446 per capita. The median OECD country spent $2,193 per capita.
US Health Costs consume [...]

A lot of reasons are given for why Seattle transit sucks. Seattle blogger Robert Farley (quoted here by Matthew Yglesias), puts forth his own theory, namely:
… let me suggest that if Seattle were MORE mobbed up, then whatever construction agency won the bid for the monorail would have significant contacts with organized crime. These [...]

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The Bull Moose minces no words:
You have to give Santorum credit. You really have to put your mind to it to be this clueless. If there was a Nobel Prize for ignorance, Santorum would be the hands down winner. If there was a Super Bowl of Stupidity, Santorum would win the trophy. If there was [...]

To all our French readers, Happy Bastille Day!

Liberty, Equality, Fraterity.
Rock on.

A column published in the Guardian by a terrorist sympathizer, has one explination for suicide bombings: Sass!
That’s right, folks. Just like Phil Hartman’s prissy magazine editor character on Saturday Night Live, this idiot has one reaction to the London bombings: “That’s SASSY!!” Here’s the wretched quote:
The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. [...]