Really? This is the future of healthcare? Doctor unable to accurately see reactions, color, gait, or movement? Once unable to get housecalls, now unable to face an actual person? This is progress? This is better care?

How about Haeundae Beach, South Korea

Isn't that the point? To crystalize the thinking of a time and place, or culture if you will. The crystalization may not be attractive, however it is there.

I note the ear hair is missing.

Did you link to the right image? All those seem to be a reason to support Ryan.

AP Press Photographer Ralph Wu was Fired for Taking this Racist Picture. 

What is your "r squared" on those regressions?

I remember that well, I was living in LA at the time. I forget when it was time-wise. KNBC seemed to run a news broadcast then from 3pm until the 6:30pm Nightly News. I would watch the 4 or 5pm news. 

I do remember that Horowitz was never seemed same on camera after that incident, and also dropped the more aggressive/intrusive consumer reporter schtick he made famous (basically provoking physical confrontation).

I think really what Troy needs to clear up is the question if "CoC" is an initialism, which renders it cite-able, or an acronym which makes it censored by the terms of the [profanity].

Actually, missing the first two on the list is progress in my opinion.

If we are looking at this the frame of the Irish migration to the US. Is there whiskey on Mars?

I think we need to turn the tables. Have Romney and Obama c0-moderate a debate between two people of each political stripe. Given the questions are so leading anyway, they might as well be sound bites in themselves. It would show what respect they have for the other point of view. Also, we can see how they manage something, not steer a question into a sound bite. 

I bet you the Gay Conception Cocktail comes with FABULOUS half-priced appetizers during happy hour.

Was it addressed to the Bergeron residence?

I hate to give the pat answer, but its true. Its the Internet. 

I seem to be about 10 years ahead of you, and I remember the rumbles of liberal media bias before the internet. The problem was the proof typically offered seemed to be vague generalizations or jarring outliers that seemed to freakish to be data. Then there were the urban legend-type anecdotes (My niece was friends with Sam Donaldson's dog walker who said that Donaldson's maid overheard a party goer....)

The Internet now has allowed the collection and cataloging of instances of bias to establish a trend. The record of causal emails provide records of conversations once reserved for evanescent phone calls. Finally, it provides a more immediate communication of bias to a greater number of people, which gives it impact.

Late and limited, so pithy:

1. As mandarins easily give businesses regulation in their favor, regulation and politicization of business practices became the new norm.

2. After a 15 year absence, and got my MBA this year. I was profoundly disturbed in 15 years how the nebulous concept of "stakeholder" has supplanted the firm concept of "shareholder" (and likewise the soft "sustainable" for the hard "maximized"). Since the people you are responsible to (or missions) are poorly identified, you can create scapegoats for or simply make-up responsibilities in your favor. The result: managers of a business can easily hold, and indulge, in liberal caprice.

3. A precept of capitalism is the creation of value. Our economy has changed from production, easy to see value because you make something that does not exist, to ideas and services, hard to see value because people have ideas and provide services constantly.

Example, making toasters (that do not exist otherwise) versus making toast (which you do for yourself or loved ones) or licensing a toaster idea (which "occurred" you never "worked" on it). 

The harder to see the value, and ergo capitalism, the more it seems capitalism is illusory.