[b]Steven D. Levitt
When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions, with the remainder generated by natural processes like plant decay.[/b]
Let’s file this one [here] under, “fucking liberals!”
So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you’ve got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don’t. Such are the vagaries of life.
That and the politics of health care.
The data don’t lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.
If not both.
The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.
On the other hand, that’s every American’s right.
Most people are too busy to rethink the way they think—or to even spend much time thinking at all.
On the other hand, that’s every American’s right.
Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.
Starting with yourself perhaps.