Comments on: [links] Link salad stumbles into Thursday, apologizes http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/30/links-link-salad-stumbles-into-thursday-apologizes/ Jay Lake's Official Web Site Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jaws http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/30/links-link-salad-stumbles-into-thursday-apologizes/comment-page-1/#comment-4610 Jaws Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:46:58 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8924#comment-4610 Perhaps some of Adams' wildly-out-of-proportion "80%" is coming from the fact that many of these chronic conditions now <b>can</b> be treated, instead of merely endured... and that the rest of our lives (e.g., decent nutrition, freedom from wolves, avoiding the very real dangers of working in agriculture) aren't killing us so soon that we survive to have "chronic" conditions instead of dying from acute conditions (like, say, starvation, or loss of limb). Or perhaps — just perhaps — it's Adams's own ill will toward science poking its way through. Again. Perhaps some of Adams’ wildly-out-of-proportion “80%” is coming from the fact that many of these chronic conditions now can be treated, instead of merely endured… and that the rest of our lives (e.g., decent nutrition, freedom from wolves, avoiding the very real dangers of working in agriculture) aren’t killing us so soon that we survive to have “chronic” conditions instead of dying from acute conditions (like, say, starvation, or loss of limb).

Or perhaps — just perhaps — it’s Adams’s own ill will toward science poking its way through. Again.

]]> By: Goals « Words and Coffee http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/30/links-link-salad-stumbles-into-thursday-apologizes/comment-page-1/#comment-4609 Goals « Words and Coffee Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:55:13 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8924#comment-4609 [...] the most. Oh yeah, I enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Ursula K. Le Guin as well. Thanks to jlake and bibliophile stalker for the near-simultaneous linkage. Possibly related posts: (automatically [...] [...] the most. Oh yeah, I enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Ursula K. Le Guin as well. Thanks to jlake and bibliophile stalker for the near-simultaneous linkage. Possibly related posts: (automatically [...]

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