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(xkcd.com) Skew-T Log-P
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(Policy of Truth) The Lessons of History
It’s amusing how many obituaries of Jimmy Carter mention ruefully that it was Carter’s idea, inspired by Zbigniew Brzezinski, to fund the Afghan mujahidin against the Soviets. It seemed like such a great idea at the time, but look at Afghanistan today. Brzezinski was widely hailed as a strategic genius and moral prophet for devising…
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(Cat and Girl) The Genius
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – More baggage than a trip to Aruba
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Rime of the Denial Manager by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Nathan Byrd. I basically agree with that, but my focus in these posts has been narrower. The question I’ve been pursuing has the extent to which Mangione’s assassination of Thompson could be justified as a response to wrongful k…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Rime of the Denial Manager by Nathan Byrd
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I was thinking more in the direction of social murder as well, so thanks for mentioning that. It does seem to me that the real issue is that you have a network of institutions that mutually reinforce the benefits to the other…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Rime of the Denial Manager by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Nathan Byrd. I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive, but it does seem to me that you need individual claims level data in order to discuss the systemic level. I discuss this a bit in the predecessor post alluded to at the begi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Rime of the Denial Manager by Nathan Byrd
(Copied and pasted from Facebook) Nathan ByrdIrfan suggests that the answers need to be fleshed out in data/spreadsheets, but it seems like a lot of the questions are counterfactual at a systemic level rather than on a piecemeal “did this specifi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on UHC, Denials, and Wrongful Death Revisited by The Rime of the Denial Manager | Policy of Truth
[…] two weeks ago, I wrote a long post here on the killing of UnitedHealthCare (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson. Here’s a follow […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) The Rime of the Denial Manager
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1834) About two weeks ago,…
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