{"id":981,"date":"2014-02-13T23:51:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T23:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=981"},"modified":"2014-02-13T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T23:51:30","slug":"miscellaneous-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/02\/13\/miscellaneous-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the latest state of the union address, Barack Obama said that women make only 77 cents for every dollar men make. Find out what&#8217;s wrong with that statistic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/01\/no-women-don-t-make-less-money-than-men.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, well, well: it seems that a former executive of CIGNA insurance has now come out in favor of national health insurance. He reveals that the rhetoric against the program (like &#8220;Death Panels&#8221;) was manufactured by the insurance companies, and has nothing to do with reality. See the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=byooYCO6-y4&amp;list=FLDgUbil7vQSd0a_2E2oTK8Q&amp;feature=share&amp;index=1\"><em> Democracy Now<\/em> interview <\/a>with him, or the Slate article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2009\/jul\/26\/us-healthcare-obama-barack-change\">here<\/a>. My article on national health insurance can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2012\/08\/24\/the-case-for-national-health-insurance\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just watched the documentary <em>Manufacturing Consent<\/em> about the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. Excellent film. I&#8217;d love to see the references the movie uses, so that I can fact-check it. Still, it is a thought provoking film about one of the most fascinating individuals in academia.<\/p>\n<p>The website Hitchen&#8217;s Corner wrote a post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchenscorner.com\/2014\/02\/13\/the-sketchy-story-of-jesus\/\">The Sketchy Story of Jesus<\/a>&#8221; including a link to my post: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2012\/09\/15\/gospels-anonymous-or-not\/\">Gospels: Anonymous or Not?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the latest state of the union address, Barack Obama said that women make only 77 cents for every dollar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}