Most of what I read is online stuff: all of the major newspapers provide the bulk of their content for free as well as Daily Beast, Slate, CNBC, The Street, Slashdot, Macrumors – all kinds of stuff. Despite all the free content, I still cling to two print publications: The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. WSJ is pretty much straight up business stuff but Economist covers all sorts of stuff and from a vastly different perspective than most other mags. I don’t always or even usually agree with Economist’s take on things but I do enjoy reading it.
I was reading this weeks Economist and found this column about the current Health Care Debate. It is titled “The politics of death” (which is just a bald attempt to get me to read it) but is sub-titled “Americans fear health reform because they fear the Reaper”. You never know what’s going to strike your fancy but that sub-title drew an immediate thought: Nobody wants the reaper to visit before he has to but Americans fear health care reform because nobody seems to know what the hell they are doing!!