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    Public Option to Start in 2013 - Yea Right

    Firedoglake has a story about America’s Affordable Health Choices bill just released by the House.  The proposed legislation conveniently delays the start of the Public Plan option until 2013 in order to buffer the cost projections and get the total under $1 trillion over ten years.

    How great is it that we may have a new President before the meat of the bill takes effect. [...]



    the know-nothing prize

    Once again, the Templeton prize has been awarded not for new discovery, but for the admission by a scientist that there are mysteries that science cannot penetrate, and therefore the answer is WOO:

    French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat won the Templeton Prize for religion on Monday for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain “the nature of being”.

    He will receive STG1 million [...]