Author: Mark Draughn
Welcome To the 9/12 World
Are some people still stuck in the 9/11 world? Over at Nobody’s Business, I explain why there’s no room for them here in the future. Read more
A Few Thousand Other People Worth Remembering
I’ve written a few posts about 9/11 over the years. My wife used to work for Aon, which lost over 170 people on 9/11, and she’d met at least one of them, a nice guy named Jim Berger. And a few years ago, I stumbled across the memoral for U.S. Navy Commander Dan F. Shanower in… Read more
Our Dumb Medical Billing System
Everybody knows at least one line from Shakespeare’s Henry VI: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” But really, that line is hundreds of years old. Anybody writing today wouldn’t put lawyers first on the list. Not while there are still people alive in medical billing departments. My God, this is a… Read more
R.I.P. Paul Krugman’s Brain
[Update: I am relieved to note that the Google+ page referenced below below does not actually belong to Paul Krugman. It is a fake. The author offers an explanation, “hope it will enlighten many…” blah, blah, blah, but it was kind of an annoying stunt. It’s true that Krugman has said similar things in the… Read more
Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie
So, I got to meet these guys: Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie That’s Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie from Reason magazine, and on Tuesday night they were at a book signing event sponsored by the Heartland Institute at Jaks Tap in Chicago to promote their new book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can… Read more