{"id":4528,"date":"2011-03-07T03:16:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2011-03-07T03:16:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:16:37","slug":"monday-miscellany-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/monday-miscellany-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Good news (thanks to P.T.): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-shrugged-movie.com\/2011\/03\/the-atlas-shrugged-movie-initially-will-be-opening-in-these-11-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first 11 markets<\/a> where <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i> will be released.\n<li>And a tiny hint of hopeful news (courtesy of Jim. B). Remember Nathan Fillion&#8217;s recent comment about wanting to revive <i>Firefly<\/i>? <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/02\/nathan-fillion-and-firefl.php\" target=\"_blank\">Well &#8230;<\/a>\n<li>The secret of long life <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/health\/medical\/story\/2011\/02\/5-myths-about-living-longer\/44304898\/1\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;ve been told<\/a>. But it may &#8212; no surprise &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/02\/can-exercise-keep-you-young\/\" target=\"_blank\">involve a depressing amount of exercise<\/a> (NYTimes free subscription link). Whatever it involves, it doesn&#8217;t hinge on any &#8220;medical establishment&#8221; &#8212; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-most-inefficient-healthcare-system-in-the-world-2011-3\" target=\"_blank\">this depressing graph<\/a> makes clear.\n<li>For more impressive charts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/BehindTheScenes\/2011\/03\/04\/is-silver-forecasting-serious-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out Dave&#8217;s Friday blog<\/a>. Silver. Shazam.\n<li>The FDA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/cold-and-flu\/news\/20110302\/fda-pulls-500-cold-medicines-from-market\" target=\"_blank\">pulls 500 prescription cold and cough medicines<\/a>. And the reason (such as it is) sounds like something from <i>The Onion<\/i>: &#8220;&#8216;We don&#8217;t know what they are, whether they work properly, or how they are made,&#8217; said Deborah M. Autor, director of the FDA\u2019s Office of Compliance at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) in Silver Spring, Md., during a teleconference. &#8216;The problem is that we don\u2019t know what the problem is.&#8217;\u201d Er &#8230; didn&#8217;t the FDA go through some elaborate process to approve these drugs in the first place?\n<li>You might have seen this last week, and let&#8217;s hope none of us ever need it. But it bears repeating. The great Wendy McElroy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreemanonline.org\/headline\/police-question-child\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When the Police Question Your Child.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news (thanks to P.T.): the first 11 markets where Atlas Shrugged will be released. And a tiny hint of hopeful news (courtesy of Jim. B). Remember Nathan Fillion&#8217;s recent comment about wanting to revive Firefly? Well &#8230; The secret of long life isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;ve been told. But it may &#8212; no surprise &#8212; involve a depressing amount of exercise (NYTimes free subscription link). Whatever it involves, it doesn&#8217;t hinge on any &#8220;medical establishment&#8221; &#8212; as this depressing graph makes clear. For more impressive charts, check out Dave&#8217;s Friday blog. Silver. Shazam. The FDA pulls 500 prescription cold and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/monday-miscellany-31\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}