Higher Ground

• Falsehoods about Obamacare, take n + 1:

  This year the campaign to recast a program that makes health insurance accessible to millions of Americans as a plague of locusts has risen to fever pitch. The Republican Party and conservative media has pulled out all the stops in a strategy aimed at scaring people from signing up with the hope that low enrollment will collapse the system.

  Mark Howard at AlterNet, folks.
• The 300,000 Floridians; the Blue Cross/Blue Shield CEO corrects the record.  Via Zandar Versus The Stupid. 
• Driftglass is conducting a fundraiser.  Sample post.
• Bob Somerby wonders why baseball games take so long now and invokes the '63 Series and Koufax and Drysdale.