hrafn wrote a very thoughtful post about the Occupy movement, their consensus decision making process, and how she has been handling her contribution.  and as I read it, I thought about the consensus based decision processes I've either witnessed, or been part of first hand, and all I can say is: go you, but O HALE no, not for me.

I've seen a lot of what ( Read more... )

I've always loved the sound of bagpipes, since I first heard them. And today, I was out in my yard, and heard them, played live, quite nearby. I live on the edge of a park (Tufts Park in Medford, MA), and it was coming from there somewhere ( Read more... )

(Reposted, last minute reminder for those of you who haven't already made other plans. It'd be great to see you ( Read more... )

I would like to take a moment, on the 5th anniversary of chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 (better known as the Massachusetts health reform law) to thank some of the people responsible for making it happen. (Some of these are people I know personally, having interviewed them for a paper in graduate school. Some, like Mitt, I know only by reputation ( Read more... )

I am on the board of the Alternatives to Marriage project (http://www.unmarried.org), and we're having a party at my house on April 16th ( Read more... )

Which is the number of ambulance patients we received between 0715 and 1030 or so ( Read more... )

So yesterday I spent my day at the Massachusetts Medical Society House of Delegates meeting. After the meeting (which was about half a day), there were a couple of continuing education talks. The first was on Gender violence in the Sudan (by a physician and minister, Gloria White-Hammond), and it was a tough talk to hear, as several present noted ( Read more... )

So tomorrow I will be making my first visit to New York City, ever. We're going to the King Tut Exhibition. ("We" is Matt, Katherine and I, Matt's mom and stepdad, his brother Will, and I know not who else-I think that's all ( Read more... )

An essay in this month's Health Affairs is compelling reading, at least for folks like me. In brief, the author describes the reasons why she, despite a positive family history, does not get an annual mammogram.

The following paragraphs encapsulate the argument nicely, I think:

"If 2,000 women are screened regularly for ten years, one will ( Read more... )

From the dreamhost.com newsletter, on a recent network brownout: "See, downtime is like ipecac. Sometimes a spoonful of downtime yields bowlfuls of uptime ( Read more... )