( drug companies and the history of segregation )

New icon from meret, reflecting my new love for Laura Roslin on BSG. Smallville still has my visceral passion, but BSG is gaining a hold on my mind.

( Review: Jerry Avorn, Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs: )

1. Vidders are even more impressive to me now that I've spent well over fourteen hours making a 3'10 slide show set to music featuring Marlboro, Abercrombie & Fitch, Coca Cola, Al Franken, Tiffany's, Spam, McDonald's, Burger King, Sesame Street, Channel 13, FedEx, Snickers, Harrison Ford, Sting, and Akira Kurosawa. The result is lame but, I hope ( Read more... )

Katharine Greider, The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers: This screed is, unintentionally, almost a better defense of the drug industry than anyone besides Derek Lowe can manage. While there are clearly problems with Americans' access to prescription medications, the thin analysis in this book - the drug ( Read more... )