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Frederick Smith

Charles Blow, She Who Must Not Be Named - 0 views

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    Left media discusses Palin more than right media, & thus helps inflate someone who holds no significant policy position (while underestimating her)
Frederick Smith

Kathleen T Kennedy, Sarah Palin is wrong about John F. Kennedy, religion and politics - 0 views

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    Niece defends JFK's 1960 speech to Houston ministers as better defining 1st Amdmt's meaning & application than Sarah Palin's recent critical construction.
Frederick Smith

The Spoils of Happiness, by David Sosa -10/6/10 - 0 views

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    Happiness is as much intellectual as emotional - it results from "flourishing" in one's interaction with life, not just from "feeling pleasure." It may even result from dealing directly and courageously with pain.
Frederick Smith

Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live - 0 views

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    NYH palliativist fights for her own life to the end
Frederick Smith

The Covenant - 0 views

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    Francis Collins & stem-cell research
Frederick Smith

In Pursuing Progress, Should Borders Matter? by Andrew Revkin - 0 views

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    Do Americans have a moral responsibility to people in poverty in other countries?
Frederick Smith

The Disclosure Dilemma - Large-Scale Adverse Events - 0 views

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    "Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights" Hospitals/systems should disclose large-scale adverse events (e.g., non-sterile equip't)
Frederick Smith

Dominion - 9/10 issue - Episc. Diocese of L.I. - 0 views

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    David Lowry - Interim Dean of Mercer School of Theology Canon John Betit - Cathedral of Incarnation ("canon of the ordinary")
Frederick Smith

A forgotten fight for suffrage - 0 views

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    South resisted 19th Amendment into 70s & 80s (Miss. - 1984)
Frederick Smith

Pulling in that distant WiFi signal - 0 views

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    Boosting WiFi in the home with "Wi-Fire" ($50) - see http://www.hfield.com/
Frederick Smith

Home Storage System (Seagate) Offers Automatic Remote Access - 0 views

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    For networking "newbies" - 1 TB storage = $130. "GoFlex Home Network Storage System" See http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/home-network-storage: "The GoFlex™ Home network storage system supports the external storage needs of every computer in your home, on one device." >Connects to your WiFi router, allowing you to wirelessly store and access files and back up multiple PC and Mac® computers in your home* >Store files in a central location on your network--use one drive for all your storage and backup needs >Wirelessly share a USB printer with every PC and Mac® in your home >Access your files over the Internet from computers and mobile devices when outside of the home
Frederick Smith

Your Own Hot Spot and Cheap - 0 views

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    Especially Virgin Mobile's Novatel, via Sprint 3G (except no roaming) - only $40/mo. Only connection to desktop must be wireless (no USB connector for communication). Need wall charger. No contract; sign on & "pre-pay" as needed. Can provide high-speed for laptop OR computer.
Frederick Smith

Kodak Play-Touch Video Camera ($230, 3.5 oz) - 0 views

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    Small, slim with HD videO
Frederick Smith

Took a Bad Photo? Paint, Sketch or Distort It, Beautifully - 0 views

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    iPhone aps to alter photos ($1-3)
Frederick Smith

American exceptionalism: an old idea and a new political battle, by Katherine Tumulty - 0 views

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    Republicans attack Obama for seeing US as no more (intrinsically) exceptional than other nations, & suggesting that what is exceptional is the goals citizens strive for, not a pre-ordained status.
Frederick Smith

US Exceptionalism as Idolatry - 0 views

The insistence of conservative leaders that patriotism be defined by a believe that the US is INTRINSICALLY EXCEPTIONAL strikes me as the very form of IDOLATRY attacked by both Hebrew prophets and ...

Politics American exceptionalism Washington Post

started by Frederick Smith on 05 Dec 10 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Visual Culture Out of Africa- Museum of Arts & Design - 0 views

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    "Africa is everywhere, so pervasive in our lives that we barely see it. Since it is in all likelihood the continent where human evolution began, it is literally in the bloodstream of everyone. DNA aside, huge portions of everyday life and cultural achievement are unthinkable without Africa."
Frederick Smith

ECONOMICS & UNIN - 0 views

ECONOMICS & UNINSURED An individual's lack of health insurance affects everyone in the country economically, so requiring it is constitutional.  When the uninsured person goes to the ER, t...

health care reform health costs health insurance uninsured constitution

started by Frederick Smith on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

A TRAGIC TRAVESTY: I - 0 views

A TRAGIC TRAVESTY: INSURER DENIES COVERAGE FOR A 22-Y.O. WOMAN'S RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AS A "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION"     20 years ago I had an unforgettable patient experience that co...

health insurance health care reform pre-existing condtion

started by Frederick Smith on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Sustainable Tech: Getting over the 2-year itch - by David Pogue - 0 views

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    See esp. recycling options
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