me: “Hi. I would like to keep my current health care. Is that cool?” 800 number: me: “Also, I’m okay with my current doctor, so, no need to make any changes there, either.” 800 number: me: “See, I don’t really need coverage for some of the stuff you guys are asking me to buy, so I’d just as soon look elsewhere, if that’s okay with you.” 800 number: me: “So.
October 2013
October 21, 2013
“Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes”
That’s the bad news. The good news, though, is that they’re set to receive a better plan — in which they receive even broader benefits while paying less, which their own doctors will happily accept as part of the new health care reality — because math as an intellectual or logical currency only gains primacy under the outmoded beliefs of Enlightenment thinkers with their rigid adherence to a conceptual framework
October 20, 2013
Sports: Sunday open thread … [Darleen Click]
Dodgers lose. USC Trojans lose. I don’t even have a local NFL team to root for. Have at it.
October 19, 2013
Los Angeles Times makes it official — “Mainstream” Media decides what the hoi polloi are allowed to know [Darleen Click]
LASlimes has declared Anthropomorphic Global Warming as unassailable science. In a stunning move that some scientists are decrying as blatant censorship, The Los Angeles Times is no longer publishing letters from those who deny climate change. “Simply put, I do my best to keep errors of fact off the letters page; when one does run, a correction is published,” writes Times letters editor Paul Thornton. “Saying ‘there’s no sign humans
October 19, 2013
“Core assumptions of “win elections, then repeal” require the suspension of disbelief.” [Darleen Click]
Andrew McCarthy speaks Truth to [GOP Establishment] Power … It is repeatedly said that the crusade to defund Obamacare was delusional, that it never had a chance. That is an overstatement. Hail Mary passes are tried because they occasionally work. A lot of things have to go right, and the success rate is low. But a Hail Mary is a ray of hope when the clock nears zero, when something
October 19, 2013
Clarifying: protein wisdom takes on a lecturing political “realist”
In response to my post yesterday on the status quo faux conservatism of Ann Coulter, I received the following comment from a drive-by neostatist troll calling himself gcm2: “It only surprises people like the morons at the Daily Beast who, even after you pushed the most moderate, liberal candidates you could find as the very essence of conservatism, still think the TEA Partiers give a good shit what you have
October 18, 2013
“Jesus” is the new swastika [Darleen Click]”
“If it can happen in a small country town like this, it makes you wonder what’s happening in other parts of the nation.” For all those people who pooh-poohed the idea that the government would ever go after religious symbols on grave markers Linda Baker lost her battle with cancer last week. She was the wife of Mark Baker, the pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Ovid. Adams said her
October 18, 2013
“Scientists suggest beer after a workout”
That’s the good news. The bad news is, they were likely shitfaced when they came up with the data, and on a Leaving Las Vegas, cirrhosis-crazed bender when they finally got around to publishing it. Not that such revelations should deter you from following their advice. I mean, global climate change, right? So you see? There’s precedence for blind faith!