Sunday morning roundup

Journalism in Russia isn't getting any safer. Dangerous, important work is an emerging theme: prosecutors are threatened, newspapers are cutting back on investigative reporting, and doctors are being murdered. Check out the apes protesting at the funeral in the second picture of the slideshow.

Thankfully, however, people are going to keep doing the right thing.

From a thoughtful article on health care reform, some scary statistics:
"A recent Weill Cornell Medical College study found that a third of the money received by primary care physicians pays for interactions between a doctor’s practice and patients’ health plans" and
"according to a study published online by the American Journal of Medicine, 60 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States in 2007 were driven by health care costs."

I wouldn't worry about the President's grasp of strategic ambiguity as a concept.