Some additional reading September 23rd from 10:25 to 15:36:
- W I L C O – "an audio postcard of sorts from a summer's night in Oregon with our friends the Fleet Foxes & a lovely Bob Dylan tune. All we ask is you check the "I pledge to vote in the 2008 Election" button below. If you can spare it, we also encourage you to consider a donation to Feeding America "
- Daily Kos: Things Become More Serious – billmon – Ru-oh.
"The price tag, we're now told (by the very same people who a year ago assured us the problem was limited to a few low-income deadbeats) is in the neighborhood of $700 billion, although I would suggest doubling that figure — and then doubling it again — if you want a more realistic estimate of what this fiasco ultimately will cost the taxpayers. And that doesn't include the indirect costs, such as higher interest rates on the rest of the national debt, higher cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security and other inflation-protected benefits, and the higher federal spending and lost revenues caused by the steep recession the US economy now appears to be heading into.All this would be bad enough, but the crisis could easily get much, much worse."
- 250 Million Pounds of Drugs Flushed Down the Toilet by Hospitals : TreeHugger – "Creative Commons: Swanksalot
You can't win. The entire environmental movement is down on bottled water (and making progress) when the word comes out that hospitals and nursing homes are flushing about 250 million pounds of pharmaceuticals down the toilet every year"