Error-ridden Medical Software Exposed
A trip to the hospital. Your health, maybe even your life in the hands of caregivers you have little choice but to trust. Assurances come from strict standards and practices that apply to health care...
View ArticleExposed: Error-ridden Medical Software
A trip to the hospital. Your health, maybe even your life in the hands of caregivers you have little choice but to trust. Assurances come from strict standards and practices that apply to health care...
View ArticleSick of the patriachy
I am gonna try and write this and sneak away. As a person of science, i never took the sociolgy courses, so the patriarchy word rings rather hollow to me. Yes, there are patriarchs and matriarchs. I...
View ArticleThe Review, May 13, 2018 – Trump Encourages Nuclear Proliferation
This week Trump announced the U.S. was withdrawing from the agreement where Iran agreed to stop developing nuclear weapons in return for the U.S. lifting economic sanctions. As part of the withdrawal,...
View ArticleNuts & Bolts: A guide to Democratic campaigns—Safety in outsourcing
Welcome back, Saturday Campaign D-I-Y’ers! For those who tune in, welcome to the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. Each week, we discuss issues that help drive successful campaigns. If you’ve...
View Article"Noncompliant behavior" leading to "justified" police violence.
From Al-Jazeera:What happens if you don’t comply when the police give you an order? What rights do you really have? How free are you, really, when the authorities have weapons pointed at you or when...
View ArticleCompliance: The Trumps Had No Idea What They Were Getting Into
They lack any appreciation of the importance of compliance. Actually, for almost everyone in Trump’s supposed inner circle, there doesn’t seem to be anybody with any experience with the sort of...
View ArticleEICHENWALD: Trump has Destroyed or Withheld Documents courts had ordered...
Donald Trump has become famous for his high level of hypocrisy. Trump’s outraged attacks on Hillary Clinton claiming she deliberately destroyed emails sought by congress is yet another example of that...
View ArticleCompliance for Thee ...
But not for me — if I’m a corporation. Particularly if I’m a hedge fund. Jaysus! The idea that a hedge must be compliant ... Be Mindful of Compliance Costspublished by Doug Cornelius on june 20, 2011...
View ArticleNonviolence as Non-Compliance
Nonviolence is not the problem, but officials’ nonviolence certainly is.
View ArticleAnthony Hill: Georgia Police Kill Unarmed NAKED man. Now what?
"The [naked] man who appeared mentally ill ran at the officer and ignored demands to stop before the officer shot him twice."Yesterday, in DeKalb, GA, a police officer responded to a call about a...
View ArticleTwo Points about US Policing
Don't see too much about these points but they are crystal clear to me.1. According to what I've read, a much higher proportion of first responders - police, fire, and EMT personnel - are in the...
View ArticleWhite Guard Forces Black Boy with Down Syndrome to Assume Frisk Position. As...
Today, right now, I am really angry. Here's why.Sometimes I write about Down syndrome and comedy and why I think it's so important. I get the pushback - lighten up, it was only a joke, don't take...
View ArticleAl Jazeera - Ferguson shows America in the grips of cult of compliance
I have a new essay up at Al Jazeera today on what I call the "cult of compliance." It's a topic I've been writing about for a long time, but the events of the last few days bring it all into focus.I...
View ArticleBillions for domination, not one cent for decency.
We will spend hundreds of millions without hesitation to send weapons to Israel, military advisers to the Ukraine, non-lethal aid to the completely compromised Syrian resistance (a creature of the...
View ArticleSaturday Night Randomness: Medication with poll.
So....I was thinking to myself, "Self, how the hell am I going to take all my meds when I have no income coming in" which got me thinking about how many individual pills each day, which makes me wonder...
View ArticleDid the Police kill Andy Lopez because he was wearing headphones?
Imagine you are walking down the street listening to music. Police see something about you that they don't like. They are behind you though and call on you to stop. You can't hear them. What happens...
View ArticlePolice Break Illinois Woman's Face for not Looking in the Camera
Jonathan Turley brings us another example of what I call the Cult of Compliance.In this article and attached video, police throw a woman into a concrete bench, breaking several bones in her face. A...
View ArticleNON-Gun Owners Need to Get Used to a Few Things
There are firearms in this country.In civilian hands.And even if they're banned like DiFi wants“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up...
View ArticleRick Perry's Offended?
I 've read somewhere Rick Perry is offended by the "tasteless" political cartoon that points out Texas is lax in enforcing common sense hazardous materials regulation. Perry missed the boat. West,...
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