So a friend sent me this in an email and it brought back a flood of memories of my youth. I have to admit that I am old as I recognize all of them and know the connections. See how old you must be (answers follow)…
A. Do you know what this is?
B. Do you know how to use this?
C. What is the connection between these two objects?
Almost two years ago I wrote a post about a battle between two behemoths in Pennsylvania. Highmark is the largest health insurance provider in Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is one of the largest health care providers in the state and certainly the largest in the western part of the state. A summary of the battle is that UPMC started offering their own health insurance years ago so they got into the insurance business. A few years ago Highmark started to purchase some failing hospital in the Pittsburgh area. These hospitals were competition for UPMC. UMPC decided that it would, after an existing agreement expired, no longer accept Highmark health insurance at its facilities. I think that I mentioned that Highmark is the largest insurance provider and that UMPC is pretty much the only game in town in the western part of the state.
Imagine what a gambling addict would do with the ability to not only see the future, but affect it. Improbable
Milton Friedman discusses economic behavior as it relates to “moral” or “immoral” laws.
This clip by Thomas Sowell is not quite as entertaining, but the information is worth watching.
This is the first of many clips where Milton Friedman schools a true “do gooder,” Phil Donohoe.
The Jade Palace Vendetta
“they were approaching Eden Lake and she lowered her window. She loved the damp green smell of the lake with the teeming life beneath its surface. Life on the shore was equally rich and plentiful. Small animals scurried beneath the trees, insects flitted and buzzed in an effort to claim the air, and birds called from the tall trees that lined both sides of the road, their branches almost meeting overhead.”
You can substitute “free phone,” “free heath care,” “free school” for the “free lunch” in the video of Milton Friedman.
Set in Louisiana, and mostly in New Orleans, the title The Neon Rain
