OK, I don’t like Obama’s proposal to open up vast areas of the Atlantic coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaskan coast for offshore drilling. There isn’t much oil and gas there–not enough to feed our oil-thirst for more than a few years at best–and many of these areas are already completely despoiled and need to be protected, not ravaged once again. Oil and gas companies will certainly be happy to bid on the new blocks, nevertheless.
Check out my new review of Scorcese’s horror flick about a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, “Shutter Island,” just out in The Lancet.
WHO reports this week that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis has reached unprecedented levels worldwide: one in four in some places! Meanwhile here in the US we’re in a snit over a few modest reforms for health insurers.
I had a lovely conversation with Philip Adams of Australia’s national public radio program this morning, about malaria, the fall of Rome, and the bother of mosquito nets.
For Ms. Magazine. Which makes me, ahem, “Ms. Blogger.”