This is what is wrong with for-profit health care ( Read more... )

Quote:You blew the second chance you got with TARP to re-enter society as a productive component of commerce. You went back to bonus-swilling, full-retard mode as though nothing ever happened and 13 million people weren't sitting around in their post credit-bubble joblessness for three years now. Your tone-deafness and utter disconnection from ( Read more... )

So I have never heard of this particular metric being defined; if you have, let me know. If not, I'm naming it now.

Flame Retardancy: (Applied to blog posts or posts in online forums.) The (integer) number of comments replying to a post before the first obvious flame comment. Simple rule: figure out which comment is the flame, then subtract 1 ( Read more... )

I think I want to be a "futurist." Anyone got a clue how to do that?


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As you might have picked up on over time, I have attended about 7 colleges and universities as a student in some capacity. Every now and again I have to prove that I went to these schools or earned a degree there. All of these schools provide transcripts for this purpose ( Read more... )

Facebook is a party; Livejournal is the nerds hanging out in the kitchen at that party.

Discuss.

[NB: That is a great title for a porn film ( Read more... )

Tickets for Lewis Black tomorrow night. Neither me nor wife sick. My teeth still hurt but not too badly. So it's on. Should be a good show.

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Celebrity. Scientist. Pick one. Only.

No matter how many times I see it, no matter how many times I learn it, no matter...

People are not only stupider than I imagine, they are stupider than I can imagine.

I know we don't teach thinking, problem solving, or reasoning in school, but-- Oh fuck. Just. That.