did you know 8/21/2008

There’s this thing in my brain that consistently needs to correlate things. Did you know, this morning’s New York Times has a front page article describing how a federal inspector general found that claims made by Medicare officials relating to cutting fraud in 2006 were themselves fraudulent? It seems that outside auditors didn’t use the right criterion while compiling their figures. Meanwhile, on page 16 of The Times there is an unrelated article stating that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting a decline in workplace deaths in 2007. Hmm. Can I assume that someone from the inspector general’s office will revise those figures in 2009? As you well know you just can’t believe everything you see and hear, can you? Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way¹.

1. “EXP”, Axis, Hendrix