Daily Links 3-3-14

In today's post: how Netflix beat Blockbuster, do vaccines cause autism, how not to be a man, the one thing Christians should stop saying, and more.

**************

Netflix vs. Blockbuster in an infographic:



Source: TopAccountingDegrees.org

************

Do vaccines cause autism? This doctor says no.

************

19 problems only book nerds would understand.

************

Learning how not to be a man from Victor Frankenstein.

************

Gut check: the one thing Christians should stop saying. The writer makes some good points.

************

How to rock a library book sale. My to be read list is so long that I would have to avoid such sales.

************

Interesting history: Welch's grape juice was originally developed as a substitute for sacramental wine. While I knew that many churches who don't use real wine in communion relied on Welch's I had no idea that's how it got started.

Flu Vaccine Shortages and Government Healthcare

A new ad will begin to run nationally today that makes the case that the government has no business getting any further into running healthcare given how they've handled the H1N1 flu vaccine shortage (as well as sending vaccine to Gitmo detainees before American citizens) (hat tip: Michael Goldfarb):



It's a great ad and makes a very salient point. For all the talk about how widespread the H1N1 pandemic was supposed to be, the government sure seems to have been caught woefully unprepared in developing sufficient supplies of the vaccine. The ad reinforces what we already know: everything government does is going to be far less efficient and far more costly than they say it will be.