Obsessive Diagnosis Disorder

Is the compulsion to diagnose things other than the statistical mean as aberrant a psychiatric disorder?

You will become mentally ill in 2013 via boingboing.

The Americanization of Mental Illness from the New York Times.

Why Insurance Companies are Just Plain Dumb

$300 for a portable device that people might find alternate uses for versus $8000 for a stripped-down, custom-built, big-box PC with all the software removed ... you do the math. Now guess which one is the one the insurance companies are willing to provide to those who need them.

Insurers Fight Speech-Impairment Remedy

Apparently people with serious speech impairments only need to communicate when at home, because, you know, they might get discriminated against if they set foot outside the house or something.

Museum of Tobacco Ads

A museum of tobacco advertisements from Stanford School of Medicine.

Dem Candidate Called "Wacky" For Suggesting People Walk or Ride Bikes

Funny, my doctor says the exact same thing. He must be pretty "quacky" then, right?

Anyway, from treehugger.

For the Difficult Lifestyle

Reversible Destiny Lofts in Tokyo. For those who think the difficult lifestyle is important to a long and healthy life.

Okay, except that I don't know where I would put my books, I so would live there.