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Van Houtte and Montaña Verde: A Fruitful Partnership - Part 2

Honduras ranks 9th in the world production of coffee and is the second most important... more

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Van Houtte and Montaña Verde: A Fruitful Partnership - Part 1

Honduras ranks 9th in the world production of coffee and is the second most important... more

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Share The Slice: Portal 2 Co-Op Maps

Thanks to the spectacular modding community, the longevity of Portal 2 keeps... more

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Home Strange Home, Part 1

A countdown of stories about off-beat homes and unusual ways of living. Includes a... more

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Crackdown 2 Re-enlisting Agents This July

If you’re anything like me – and I know I am – you picked up the... more

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Warthog 3000

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We're Getting The Band Back Together! Hsu, Linn, Baby & More Joining EGM Relaunch

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Soul Food Co-op -- An Oasis in West Oakland

Soul Food Co-op -- An Oasis in West Oakland www.YouthOutlook.org... more

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First detailed look at Modern Warfare's spec-ops mode on GT TV

GameTrailers.com does a huge feature on modern warfare 2, including a detailed look at... more

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Town Hall Beat Down!

Health Care Town Halls are turning into bloodbaths across the nation. So we sent Ben... more

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Playing Doctor on YouTube

As we wait for the health care debate to be settled, Brett explores the free and... more

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infoMania: Best clips from the week of Aug. 20

This week on infoMania the news wants you to know they're hip to Woodstock's... more

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Toledo City Bike

The Toledo City Bicycle Co-op teaches how to fix bikes and get them back on the road.

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New Co-Op Trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Konami has released their Gamescom trailer of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the... more

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Health care co-op supporters don't know much about health care co-ops

So! Have you heard about these HEALTH CARE CO-OPS? If you watched any news at all yesterday, the answer is yes! And as you heard people on the teevee, attempting to explain what a "health care co-op" is, you might have been left with the strong impression that no one really knew what the hell they were talking about. There's a reason for that: no one really knew what the hell they were talking about!

But what does it matter? Because "health care co-ops" have come to be defined politically as representing the "sensible center" of this debate, offering that elusive, intoxicating elixir known as "bipartisanship." In Washington anything that's "bipartisan" is considered to be stuffed full of wondrous Tinkerbell magic and beloved by the political press, regardless of whether it's effective policy or not. And it usually isn't! To political elites, "bipartisanship" is like cleavage, multiplied by Ecstacy.

In the case of co-ops, the discussion has been even more inane than usual because nobody seems able to consistently describe what a "health care co-op" is. This does not dissuade the media, however. They're perfectly happy allowing a bunch of idiots talk about how magical (or how destructive) co-ops are based purely on the totally screwed-up political calculus.

Here, for instance, is that most serious of bipartisan players, Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, on MSNBC's Morning Meeting!

GRASSLEY: well, first of all, I hope that you understand that there's a lot of co-ops around the country. Just a few of them involved in health care. So there's a lot of experience of 150 years with Americans with co-ops.

Okay, sure! There are a ton of great co-ops! 150 years of co-ops! But we're talking about nationwide health care reform, so I'm a bit nervous to hear that there are only a "few" co-ops "involved in health care." From whence does his faith in co-ops stem? As it turns out, it comes from a lot of examples that don't have anything to do with health care, even remotely! As pretty CNN hologram Jessica Yellin explained to birther fanatic Lou Dobbs, health care co-ops proponent Senator Kent Conrad was specifically inspired by an entirely different kind of co-op:

"He believes that the co-ops are a better option because his constituents are familiar with these models because of energy co-ops they have in their communities and he's seen them work. So maybe that's a better way to go."

So, Kent Conrad is under the impression that electricity and health care are distributed in the same manner? That's sort of dubious! Luckily, energy co-ops aren't Conrad's only inspiration! On CNN, Ed Henry explained:

"Kent Conrad has been the one pushing it, saying, look, this has worked with rural electrification, it's worked with credit unions and the like and then maybe this could work with health care."

See, it would be useful if someone in the news could maybe point out that rural electrification and credit unions and health care provision are actually entirely different things. Instead, we are presented with this argument: "Apple, ergo orange."

Read more at link...So! Have you heard about these HEALTH CARE CO-OPS? If you watched any news at all... more

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Durbin Open to Dropping Public Option

One of Barack Obama's chief allies in the United States Senate hinted on Sunday... more

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Innovations in Co-Op Gaming

Not since the age of Arcades, standing shoulder to shoulder in a local mall or shop,... more

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CO-OP 0103-Dusting off the Wii

This weeks episode is all Wii all the time. Although where are their Wiis? Its been... more

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CO-OP 0102- Selling Ourselves- Resident Evil 5 & Halo Wars

In this episode of CO-OP the guys try and figure out how to advertise themselves now... more

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Author and Sustainable Business Pioneer John Abrams at Bioneers by the Bay 2008

John Abrams, author of Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of... more

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