Aujourd'hui, c'est la journée de l'installation en médecine #JIM organisée par #NorAGJIR avec le soutien logistique de l'#URPSML !
Objectif : dédramatiser l'#installation (surtout en #MG même si les principes restent les mêmes pour les autres spécialités) et donner les clés aux jeunes médecins pour que ça se passe bien !
Une soixantaine de participants pour ce samedi, c'est plutôt satisfaisant !
Jim Jordan is officially running for speaker of the house. Do his feckless colleagues have any idea just how many of those wrestling stories are about to come flooding back like a red tide? It’s like nominating Jeffrey Dahmer to deliver the keynote at a nutritionist’s convention.
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions.
If the Tennessee-born economist James McGill Buchanan were alive today, it would suit him just fine that most well-informed journalists, liberal politicians, and even many economics students have little understanding of his work.
The reason? Duke historian Nancy MacLean contends that his philosophy is so stark that even young libertarian acolytes are only introduced to it after they have accepted the relatively sunny perspective of Ayn Rand. (Yes, you read that correctly).
If Americans really knew what Buchanan thought and promoted, and how destructively his vision is manifesting under their noses, it would dawn on them how close the country is to a transformation most would not even want to imagine, much less accept.
Buchanan’s view of human nature was distinctly dismal. Adam Smith saw human beings as self-interested and hungry for personal power and material comfort, but he also acknowledged social instincts like compassion and fairness.
Buchanan, in contrast, insisted that people were primarily driven by venal self-interest.
Crediting people with altruism or a desire to serve others was “romantic” fantasy: politicians and government workers were out for themselves, and so, for that matter, were teachers, doctors, and civil rights activists. They wanted to control others and wrest away their resources: “Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves,” he wrote in his 1975 book, The Limits of Liberty.
The people who needed protection were property owners, and their rights could only be secured though constitutional limits to prevent the majority of voters from encroaching on them, an idea Buchanan lays out in works like Property as a Guarantor of Liberty (1993).
Buchanan saw society as a cutthroat realm of makers (entrepreneurs) constantly under siege by takers (everybody else).
His own language was often more stark, warning the alleged “prey” of “parasites” and “predators” out to fleece them. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger?
Harvard professors Steven #Levitsky and Daniel #Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is YES.
Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady #weakening of critical institutions, such as the #judiciary and the #press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political #norms.
The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to #authoritarianism.
The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.
Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary #Hungary, #Turkey, and #Venezuela, to the American South during #Jim#Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.
Got asked to design a #Lego#Gastonia for #Jim#Kirkland (for a friend of his to give him).
Here is the end result.
I will now have to get the parts and build it to make sure they work, then get the parts to my friend to pass on to Jim.
@IzzyCanyon Coming in earlate for #shipsaturday of #canyoncononmastodon cause I'm not gonna have the spoons when I get off work tomorrow to do much posting 😅. Still not too many spoons rn either tbh so I'm just gonna:
I'm a #cjizzy bitch til I die. I also love me some #steddyhands and #edizzy. #stizzy is also good but it's gotta be a certain flavor for me. #rizzy#ouizzy and whatever the ship name for #jim/izzy is are also tasty :3c
I am catching up on yesterday's #NI#LE23 results before I watch the rest today.
I am stunned at the #BlackMountain DEA in Belfast - Sinn Fein ran SEVEN candidates and got ALL of them returned! Plus they got all three in #GlengormleyUrban returned!
I hope he isn't ill again. You wouldn't wish that on anyone!
Poots after all was the one who nominated a FM against the wishes of the party. I think he was definitely more aware of the importance of the Stormont to the #DUP
Jeff has to get out of the corner he has been painted into by #Jim (who is a weakening force) & the idiot 🚮
A look inside Miss Piggy’s creator's art-filled Brooklyn duplex (gothamist.com)
A look at interesting New Yorkers in their interesting spaces....