Kiln, Mississippi Peter Drier, comrade, housing expert, and professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, made an interesting point in a piece he wrote recently about segregation. Reflecting on Ferguson, Missouri, although it could have been hundreds of places he wrote: Sociologists have invented a way to measure segregation called the “index of dissimilarity,” which …
Month: September 2015
Hospitals Shirking on Financial Assistance
Kiln, Mississippi When the doctors’ union, the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics rings the bell on the horrid practices of hospitals, you know we have a tiger by the tail – and we’re in danger of continuing to be hurt badly! The Journal looked at 140 hospitals to see how they were preparing for …
Creepy but Reassuring to Read Hillary Emails
Kiln, Mississippi Let us be clear and make no bones about it, it was a huge misjudgment for Hillary Clinton to use a private email address and server while Secretary of State. No organization in their right mind would ever have allowed it, and it establishes an unfamiliarity with working for others, as opposed to …