Cedars-Sinai hospital is one of the 20 largest hospitals in the US. With 950 beds and around 290,000 inpatient days, they post about $6.5 Billion per year in operating expenses. That would mean that without a single penny of incoming revenue, the government could fund one hospital the size of Cedars-Sinai in each state to provide 100% free ( Read more... )

...ok well maybe not ever, but Seven Pounds was definitely a damn good flic. i know you religious types will have serious objections to this opinion, but i really don't care. it's obvious 15 minutes in what the general plot is going to be and how it is probably going to end, but it still kinda hits you like a brick wall when it finally does. i ( Read more... )

omg i'm sooooo bored right now. I still can't sleep before like 5am, so I've got at least another 2 hours to kill ( Read more... )

i've been home for two days and am already bored enough to post on LJ. how sad is that ( Read more... )

Tell me where I went wrong in this hand (Texas Hold 'Em of course ( Read more... )

i spent 14 hours last night "sleeping" and another hour this morning freaking out because i thought i had to feed the dogsled team so that we could go fight crime later. i haven't quite figured out exactly how that would work yet, but i think it sounds pretty awesome ( Read more... )

school's good, i'm just really starting to regret the whole timing aspect of it. i met a lot of really cool people toward the end of the summer and i wish i'd had more time to spend with them before leaving forever ( Read more... )

so i made my peace with everyone that i feel i've offended over the years tonight. i've been meaning to do this for a long time, so it's good to get my true feelings out in the open for a change. i apologize if i forgot anyone; and i truly mean that i meant no harm. i like to think that i'm a generally nice guy and that i mean well in most ( Read more... )

i'm bored and this is what i do when i'm bored. so here i am ( Read more... )

so i'm trying to revive the summer of adam. been busy the past couple weeks with social events - ball games, movies, parties, golfing, the wedding. maybe cheeseburger will be the last punch to the chest my summer needs...ironically coming just a week or so before i head back to school ( Read more... )