I have to say I have tested people with this riddle myself, only with two less degrees of separation: What is the chain of events that connect the Borg — the evil cyber-bio villains of “Star Trek” fame — and health care reform. The blog a grammar asks and answers this in a post called [...]

See, the health care bill is already paying dividends…for the person who thought this up. Wonder if they had one ready in the event the bill didn’t pass.

When I was a kid, I once stumbled upon the movie The Ten Commandments on TV. Exposed mostly to cartoons and sit-coms, I sat there in bleary-eyed awe as the 3 hr 40 minute film just kept on going and going and going. Characters disappeared, story arcs rose and resolved, and the thing still wouldn’t [...]

Keith Hennessey offers a post in which he pairs one headline about the health care overhaul from this year and one from last and asks you to guess which is which. The article links, which provide you with the correct answers, are in the post itself. Politico: President Obama takes reform on the road AP: [...]

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From a recent post titled “What Are These Three Numbers” on the economics blog Econbrowser comes this chart:

These numbers, represented in billions of 2010 dollars, were taken from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

Following the health care summit on Twitter is as good a way as any… One Tweet puts its finger on one potential problem of an event like this: Some parts of the Health Care Summit that I have been listening to, have sounded like the adults in Peanuts- Wonk Wonk Wonk

Speaking of the U.S. debt, as we did in our last post — Keith Hennessy, who was a senior White House economic advisor to President George W. Bush, wrote a lengthy post on his blog a couple of weeks ago criticizing President Obama’s description of the Bush years as a “decade of profligacy.” One argument, [...]

Remember that public debate last week between Obama and congressional Republicans? From the New York Times: The encounter at a Baltimore hotel was unlike any of Mr. Obama’s presidency or very many other presidencies, for that matter. While he met with the Republican caucus once before and occasionally invites Republican leaders to the White House, [...]

Reader comments from the New York Times site: Listening to Pres.Obama, who I happily voted for, pains me. He sounds no different than any of the other in office guys I hear try and make a point on the cliches of others. He says, “These are the facts… we need to reform the system. Single [...]