USA Today's 'Sicko' Debate

A DEBATE WORTH HAVING?
The United States spends twice as much or more on health care per capita than Canada, Britain, France and Cuba, countries with single-payer systems that USAToday criticizes as "beset by inefficiencies." The U.S. government spends about as much on health care as a share of GDP as the Canadian, British and Cuban governments do, and France's government spends only somewhat more--even as the U.S.'s private spending on health dwarfs that of any developed country.
(FAIR)

Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD | | Guardian Unlimited Business

PRINCE CD DISTRIBUTED FOR FREE
The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn widespread criticism from music retailers.
(GUARDIAN)

Trackstick

STICK IT
Okay, this is too weird. Google is offering a GPS "Trackstick" which "records its own location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude at preset intervals." It can store months of "travel information" and "is the perfect tool for individuals looking for a way to track anything that moves." While the ad postulates that you can use it to track your hiking, biking or vacationing moves, it sounds like it can be used for more sinister motives like checking out where your significant other goes at night.
(TALKLEFT, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)