Last month I posted my thoughts on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and particularly my opinion that a brute-force method should be used to stop the leak. In response to my friend David's comment, I sent the idea in for evaluation and the other day I received the boilerplate response: > Dear Gray Rinehart, > Thank you so much for taking the time to think about and submit your proposed solution regarding the Horizon incident. Your submission has been reviewed for its technical ...
Updated 07-06-2010 at 08:08 AM by Gray Rinehart
["Grain of salt" statement: This is something of a rant. It is my unqualified opinion, as I'm not an oil man and the only floating oil rig I've ever been on had been converted to a space launch platform. This post is for entertainment and stress-relief purposes only: primarily my own entertainment and stress relief.] I fail to understand why British Petroleum hasn't written off the failed Deepwater Horizon as a total loss and taken steps to entomb it forever in order to ...
Updated 06-06-2010 at 05:31 AM by Gray Rinehart
(Disclosure, or Caveat: I don't have hard evidence to back this up, and I presume many of my friends on the left side of the political aisle would deny it. This is supposition on my part, grounded in my own perceptions of news stories, Internet postings, and conversations. I suspect I could find some documentary evidence if pressed to do so.) My question in this blog post stems from the vehemence with which the Tea Parties have been excoriated by left-leaning elements of the press ...
This weekend's "proud papa" moment: seeing the movie MISSISSIPPI DAMNED -- for which my daughter Stephanie was the "Key Set Production Assistant" -- at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington. It's a moving and sometimes disturbing portrait of a family trapped in cycles of poverty and abuse, and was filmed in the little town of Ahoskie, North Carolina. The acting was extremely good; for a sample, here's the YouTube trailer. The producers are looking for support ...
I've been mulling this over for a few days, and haven't come to any conclusions: what part of healthcare (or health care, if you prefer) is necessity, and what part is luxury? Can any part be considered a luxury? From the standpoint of the patient, if you need some particular medicine or procedure to recover fully, then by definition it would be a necessity. But I wonder, how much of the price escalation in healthcare is because tests and treatments that once were extraordinary ...
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