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• Vanzetti commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  Also, chimpanzees are not egalitarian, and you don't get more hunter-gatherer then this....
• Vanzetti commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  30 years in one country is pretty much a fluctuation on the graph. Even assuming that salaries represent the quality of life (they don't - 30 years ago a lot of stuff just couldn't be bought because it didn't exist yet. Now it does, again thanks to progress of technology)....
• paws4thot commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  Para 2 - No generaliation is true, not even that one. This is primarily a Wendyball area despite your comment about it being a Shinty one. From here the next 3 landfalls West are called St Kilda, Rockall, and Canada!...
• Francois commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  This article is well timed: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/06/10/4097735/single-payer-is-needed-cure.html "He further pointed out that the administrative cost of health care insurance is one of the major drivers of escalating health care costs from 1980 to 2005. According to Friedman, the administrative cost of private insurance will be $200 billion in 2013. In the U.S. billing costs run $83,975 per doctor per year versus only $22,205 in Ontario."...
• Trottelreiner commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  Well, add me to the club of the antihypertensive junkies. For my personal cocktail, take some calcium channel blocker, add hydrochlorothiazide, the poison of choice for German thiazide afficionados, and, last but not least, throw in some glorified snake poison, AKA ACE inhibitor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_development_of_ACE_inhibitors This is still somewhat better than my mother, whose medicinal cabinet usually gets a "evidence for the excessive consumption of every antihypertensive drugs known to civilized men since 1957", the latter one being the date of the introduction of thiazides. http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/XFBBGL.pdf I guess she never used Reserpine, but then, nobody is that keen on seeing if...