Monthly Archives: September 2011

Free Will, Sharing and Facebook

Face­book has been in the news a great deal lately. Early this week, they made some changes to their site design. Yes­ter­day, they announced Face­book Time­lines which is essen­tially a dig­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of your life that will be avail­able on the web unless you choose for it not to be. Nei­ther of these changes have …

September 24, 2011 – 7:10 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Geithner Says Europe Will Follow Our Lessons, God Help Them If They Do

This week, Tim­o­thy Gei­th­ner made com­ments in the finan­cial media regard­ing how he thought Europe would get out of the mess they are in. “I think you’re going to see them draw on the lessons of our cri­sis, draw on the lessons of things that worked here in the United States,” Gei­th­ner said in a Bloomberg …

September 21, 2011 – 8:49 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Comments (0)

Book Review — The Great Cholesterol Con

Let’s go on a lit­tle jour­ney. Imag­ine if you will the fol­low­ing sit­u­a­tion. A US phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany, always on the out­look for ways to improve people’s lives, cre­ates a drug that is excep­tion­ally good at treat­ing patients with chronic and acute pain par­tic­u­larly in cases of arthri­tis. The drug is sub­mit­ted to and approved by …

September 15, 2011 – 10:26 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review, Culture | Comments (1)