In today's SF Chronicle, there is the headline "Study finds no harm from 'drive-through deliveries'". It talks about there not being an increase in the amount of hospital visits for the newborn after deliveries where insurance companies kick you out of the hospital 24 hours after delivery. The article goes on to say "The researchers did not look at the health of the mothers." Okay, so apparently the headline was written by some anti-abortion, "only the baby matters, not the provider of the womb", right-wing, conservative IDIOT.
Unclear on the Concept
Also from today's paper. A jury award against Philip Morris was reduced from 28 billion dollars to 28 million dollars. The attorney for Philip Morris said (as quoted from the article in the Chronicle) that the punitive damages were excessive, and the jury used the award as a means of punishing the company. Um, hello? Was he not tipped off by the fact that the two words have the same first four letters? If not, I'll quote the AHD via dictionary.com again: Punitive: Inflicting or aiming to inflict punishment; punishing. And this guy is a lawyer!
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