#Sidney's Picks: Morello Rages Against Ryan; Hospital Infections; Used Cars | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

#Sidney's Picks: Morello Rages Against Ryan; Hospital Infections; Used Cars

  • Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan named Rage Against the Machine as his favorite band, eliciting this blistering op/ed by RATM guitarist and Hillman Award-winner Tom Morello. It begins, “Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.”
  • Hospitals and nursing homes aren’t doing enough to stop the spread of the bacterium C. difficile, a deadly intestinal infection, reports Peter Eisler of USA Today.
  • That used car may be even more used than you think. Ken Bensinger and Elizabeth Frank of the LA Times investigate “churn” in the used car market, where dealers sell, repossess, and resell the same vehicle over and over.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]