Unfriendly Facebook
Have you ever dumped someone on Facebook? I don’t mean broken up with them — but only removed them from your friends list? Chances are, if you have been using Facebook for any length of time, someone has done something or written something on the social network that you would rather not be associated with, so you quietly wiped them off the face of your Wall forever. Maybe they said something that you thought was really over the top and inappropriate. Or it could be they like the Chicago Bears and you are a Dallas Cowboys fan. Whatever the reason you chose, you probably...
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- Should doctors use a ‘shopping cart’ for health care services? February 22, 2012RAND Corporation’s Robert Brook makes the case for an Amazon.com-like checkout system of medicine, in the latest issue of JAMA: What if every time a practitioner used an electronic medical record system to order a procedure or test for a patient, an electronic shopping cart appeared, indicating how much that “purchase” would cost? What if at the end of the d […]
- The GOP’s big donor advantage, and small donor problem February 22, 2012Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam profile the “rarefied group of millionaires and billionaires acting as kingmakers in the GOP contest.” “I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections,” casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who is funding a pro-Gingrich super PAC, said in an interview published this week in Forbes magazine. “But as long as it’s doab […]
- Our unequal tax system, in one HTML table February 22, 2012Bruce Bartlett and Kevin Drum point to a striking table in the 2012 Economic Report of the President (pdf) showing that there’s a huge variation in what people of similar income levels actually pay in federal taxes: Read full article >> […]
