In the news…
From The Daily News, in light of the recent Swine Flu outbreak:
[R]ed-faced Republicans tried to explain why they stripped $780 million for pandemic flu preparedness from the economic stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year.
From 1010 WINS, a person demonstrates the meaning of the “me” generation on Long Island:
Police say a driver irate to find a Long Island road closed for a fundraising run has nearly rammed her luxury car into an officer.
The 32-year-old driver has been released…
Nassau County police say she argued with an officer who was enforcing a road closure in Merrick for Robbie’s Run … Police say when told to pull over, she gunned her Lexus‘ accelerator and lurched toward him before slamming on the brakes as he put his hands on the hood. He wasn’t hurt.
Police say the woman drove off. She was arrested at a friend’s home.
This raises the obvious question, who the heck raised this woman and the hell was she thinking?
Paul Krugman laments Wall Street and asks the question “Why are paychecks heading for the stratosphere again?” from The New York Times:
[T]here’s no longer any reason to believe that the wizards of Wall Street actually contribute anything positive to society. … So what’s going on here? Why are paychecks heading for the stratosphere again? Claims that firms have to pay these salaries to retain their best people aren’t plausible: with employment in the financial sector plunging, where are those people going to go?
Well said, Mr. Krugman.
Atheism on the move? From The New York Times:
Local and national atheist organizations have flourished in recent years, fed by outrage over the Bush administration’s embrace of the religious right. A spate of best-selling books on atheism also popularized the notion that nonbelief is not just an argument but a cause, like environmentalism or muscular dystrophy.
