Feminists Do it Egalitarian-Style: Just when you thought it was safe to make fun of those man-haters in flat-sole shoes and scoop-neck power suits, the news comes out that feminist women are having more fun and enjoying more relationship satisfaction than their non-feminist cohorts. Imagine, romance AND respect, all in the same relationship. It does happen!
Big Pharma’s Money before Medicine means No New Antibiotics: Having a sick child this past week made me particularly sensitive to this Business Week article, reminding us all that the pharmaceutical industry has lots of interest in profit and little interest in public health. The result — no new antibiotics to fight the plethora of emerging drug-resistant bacteria strains such as the one that caused the recent strep outbreak in Rochester, New York.
Cost of College Rises 6.6%: Let’s see. Did you get a raise of 6.6% last year? Hmmm. Neither did I. Must be because I underperformed again. Either that or this economy stinks and I picked the wrong profession for making money. By the time my kids get to college, the cost of a year of private higher education will probably be about twice my salary. Yup, that sounds about right.
Why Don Carcieri’s Daughter Might Want to Marry Colin Powell: Have you ever noticed how much Don Carcieri looks like Colin Powell? Similar head shapes, eyes, nose, mouth — even the hair and the glasses bear a striking resemblance. Depending on how these men related to their daughters, the research cited in this article would suggest that Don and Colin might have daughters that would be attracted to men who looked like them.
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Item #2 strikes me. The market, it seems, isn’t so magical after all. The problem is that the market is re-active. It reacts after a need has been identified. That is, it won’t produce a new antibiotic until a bunch of people die from infections. It won’t stop pollution until made to do so. And then it will only do it kicking an screaming, uttering dire threats that the strain of compliance will kill the company.
Ahhh, capitalism. Ain’t it grand? Money first. People…somewhere around 7th or 8th.
I don’t know that the reactivity is quite the issue. The issue is that antibiotic sales never come close to the sales of a drug like Lipitor or Prozac — something that you can prescribe to large swaths of the population, instead of just the few people who come down with a certain bacterial infection and need a new antibiotic. But bottom line is that the free market fails in the case of getting antibiotics to market in order to keep people alive. People are just supposed to take their Prozac and Lipitor and if they get a deadly bacterial infection, oh well. It’s not Pfizer’s problem.
Charlie Fogarty was not the handsomest man I ever saw, but I was very attracted to him for Governor.