“What does a company do when there is anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000? In the case of Genentech Inc., nothing.”
Read the entire AP article here.
Note that these drugs are primarily [...]

Saturday, October 11, is Dev/Tech day. Sunday, October 12, is new media day. And Saturday night there’s a party. Are you coming? I sure hope so!

You have no choice! John McCain was a POW. You must vote for him!

(music by Kevin MacLeod)

I don’t love Barack Obama, but I think he’s a decent guy and a patriotic American who would like to make this country a better place, especially for those of us who work for a living. I think pretty much the same about John McCain, too — except I think he has forgotten (or [...]

Today I got a call inviting me to “host” a lunch with Christine Jennings, who is running against Vern Buchanan for the privilege of representing Florida’s 13th Congressional District. The cost of being a “host” at this event, which also features Senator Bill Nelson, would have been $500. Or, said Jennings campaigner Melanie, I could [...]

Presidential campaign promises this year have gotten so unrealistic that there’s no way John McCain, Barack Obama or even Jesus Christ — who, last I heard, is not running this time around — could deliver on all of them. Or even on a reasonable percentage of them. Much though we’d like to believe the right [...]