Casual Observation

9 Comments

1. 

   TarheelDem on December 29, 2009 at 10:18 am

   Or the next front in the war on terror.

   Every new technology immediately creates two major sources of applications — military uses and porn.

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     Ed J on December 29, 2009 at 10:24 am

     There’s a visual.

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       TarheelDem on December 29, 2009 at 10:27 am

       Read the link; your visuals will have a greater range of possibilities.

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         Ed J on December 29, 2009 at 10:30 am
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   Joelcr on December 29, 2009 at 11:24 am

   It’s a weird title, for sure.

   Something like “transcription factors” or “specialized domains in DNA-binding proteins” would be much more informative.

3. 

   boran2 on December 29, 2009 at 11:40 am

   New Shimmer.  It’s a floor wax.  It’s a desert topping.  -SNL

4. 

   proximity1 on December 29, 2009 at 12:20 pm

     have a look at Bob Herbert’s latest column,

    

     December 29, 2009

   Op-Ed Columnist

     A Less Than Honest Policy

   By BOB HERBERT

   There is a middle-class tax time bomb ticking in the Senate’s version of President Obama’s effort to reform health care.

   The bill that passed the Senate with such fanfare on Christmas Eve would impose a confiscatory 40 percent excise tax on so-called Cadillac health plans, which are popularly viewed as over-the-top plans held only by the very wealthy. In fact, it’s a tax that in a few years will hammer millions of middle-class policyholders, forcing them to scale back their access to medical care.

   Which is exactly what the tax is designed to do.

   The tax would kick in on plans exceeding $23,000 annually for family coverage and $8,500 for individuals, starting in 2013. In the first year it would affect relatively few people in the middle class. But because of the steadily rising costs of health care in the U.S., more and more plans would reach the taxation threshold each year.

      http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/opinion/29herbert.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print  

    

5. 

   Dr Squid on December 29, 2009 at 5:10 pm

   Great! I can trot out this old chestnut…

   Your zinc finger got caught in my leucine zipper.

6. 

   Oscar In Dallas on December 29, 2009 at 10:14 pm