Tim's Bits and Pieces

Death Panels

The Queensland government's Adult Guardian decided to cut off aid to a woman with cancer who was deemed unlikely to survive. Sounds like a "death panel"* to me, something the public healthcare supporters in the US claim do not exist in Australia and other countries with public healthcare.

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Categories: Politics, Socialism

Date: 2011-04-10 23:03:53, 13 years and 231 days ago

I've mentioned Tim O'Neill's blog here before, but he hadn't posted since quite some time. (he's even worse than me at the whole regular posts things; though his posts are longer and far more interesting) Despite this I've still checked back there every now and again incase he starts posting again, and now he has. As with all of his reviews it's full of interesting historic information; I strongly recommend reading it.

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Categories: Linkage, Literature, Religion

Date: 2011-01-25 23:03:53, 13 years and 306 days ago

Rousseau's The Social Contract

As I mentioned earlier I've recently read through Rousseau's The Social Contract (not that translation though, mine was by Lowell Blair in the 1970's), and I'll expand on my initial review ("Wrong, but in interesting ways") here.

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Categories: Jurisprudence, Literature, Philosophy, Politics

Date: 2010-12-19 23:03:54, 13 years and 343 days ago

Self Improvement Update

Revising my goals a little. I'm going to start calling it "Self Improvement" rather than ten things so I don't have to maintain the exact number of goals:

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Categories: Self-Improvement

Date: 2010-12-13 23:03:54, 13 years and 349 days ago

Suspicious Fire is Suspicious

Saturday morning:

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Categories: MilitaryAndNationalSecurity, Oddities

Date: 2010-12-09 23:03:54, 13 years and 353 days ago

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae (1915)

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Categories: Heroes, Poetry, Remembrance

Date: 2010-11-11 23:03:54, 14 years and 16 days ago

The Burger That Will Not Rot

We've all heard the story about the MacDonald's burger that will not rot. Apparently because of the evil preservatives in them. Well, someone decided to test this theory by using eight different types of burgers including home made ones and different types of MacDonald's burgers to see which burgers would and would not rot, and then explains the most likely reason why the MacDonald's burgers do not rot. (I'll give you a hint, it's not the evil preservatives*) Go read the whole thing, it's well worth the time.

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Categories: Linkage

Date: 2010-11-08 23:03:54, 14 years and 19 days ago