1. We need to return to the notion of "health insurance" instead of "health care payment plan." Today's "health insurance" couldn't be farther from insurance; it is merely a health care payment program today. Used to be, insurance was insurance (that is, insuring against major, unpredictable loss). Today it is simply a means of paying for health care ( Read more... )

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Albright thinks Bush is hiding bin Laden

Idiot.

This is cool - 55 operating systems on a PowerBook. Courtesy of VirtualPC, of course, but a really interesting one is HanoiOS, which is run "within VMware within Linux within Virtual PC within Mac OS X." :)

For some reason, I'm remembering a few rhymes ( Read more... )

Thomas Sowell's most recent column, Courts without law, details the lawlessness in the US Supreme Court. All of you should read this column.

As I was just reading bandicoot's update about going to the dump, I remembered something from my childhood. Long ago, my grandparents did not have curbside trash pickup, so they used to load the garbage into the trunk of the car and take it to my great Uncle's house. Uncle Hugh lived on a huge (well, not that big, probably 75 acres or so) farm, and part ( Read more... )

I just discovered that one of my neighbors has an open wireless router. cramer, don't get any ideas. ;)

What's worse: his router's signal is stronger than my own at this particular location in da Haus. :(

ROTFLMBOBO!

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Update: Depending on the, uh, "sensitivity climate" at your place of employment, these may not be "work friendly."