Happy 80th to Le Guin
Happy 80th birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin. Here’s to many more! (and many more books!)
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Pathfinder
This was not the movie I wanted to see. See, I wanted somebody to take the opportunity to tell the story about complex, fully developed Native American societies whoopin some Viking ass. Instead, it’s just another cliched ramble about “noble savages” getting saved by The Great White Hope. It was like watching 10,000 BC… in
OmniPod Upgrade: Solo Patch
Slimmer than my current pod… but the big bonus – as you can see on some of the later pictures – is that the default medical adhesive is (WAIT FOR IT!!): hypafix. Watch the video demo here. Smart. Smart. Smart. Smart. “Hey, let’s make our *default* medical adhesive the one that folks *won’t develop a
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Welcome Back to the Ranks of the Uninsured
Last Saturday, I was alerted that UHC had dropped my insurance coverage due to an “administrative” error. I had been completely uninsured since October 1st. Now, I have dealt with a lot of “administrative” errors at United Healthcare. Every three months, I spend about 6 hours over three days on the phone screaming at customer
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Quote of the Day
“In my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign… of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
Support of Public Services Health Insurance
Apparently, John Boehner hasn’t “met one American” who supports a public health insurance option (you know, like our public postal option, public library option, and public security [police] option). I think our current public services have improved the public good and kept private costs down for the same services, and I believe it will do
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It Occurs to Me…
… that I shared a lot more on “teh Internets” when “everybody” wasn’t reading it. Sad. In other news… I got the biggest of my book checks today! Big CC debt will all be paid off on Monday!
Katha Pollitt Moneyshot
“The widespread support for Polanski shows the liberal cultural elite at its preening, fatuous worst. They may make great movies, write great books, and design beautiful things, they may have lots of noble humanitarian ideas and care, in the abstract, about all the right principles: equality under the law, for example. But in this case,
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