Humbug
Dentist: “Your teeth are in good shape except for that one we’re watching.” Hygienist: “You need to floss more here in the back.” (Not the same location the doc is talking about.) Do they never talk to one another?
Archive of entries posted on March 2010
Lost, Season 6, Episode 9
Blurb: Richard must make a difficult decision. Ryan Alan Sepinwall EW Pre-show psycho babble EW Instant Recap EW In-depth Recap
What’s in the Health Care Reform bill this year?
We’ve all heard that the vaunted exchanges from which insurance buyers can pick and choose health insurance plans don’t go into effect until 2014. What does this legislation do this year? From money columnist Jane Bryant Quinn: For young people–You?ll be allowed to stay on your parents? group plan or individual policy until you?re 26. …
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What the Dems did
And it paid off in spades. Now some people say that you shouldn’t tempt fate And for them I would not disagree But I never learned nothing from playing it safe I say fate should not tempt me I take my chances, I don’t mind working without a net I take my chances, I take …
The final hours
Updated below If all goes well, in a couple of hours the House of Representatives will pass a bill that essentially declares that all American citizens have a right to health care. This action will sit alongside FDR’s establishment of Social Security: “. . .we have tried to frame a law which will give some …
Speaking of rabidity
This has been reported in numerous MSM places as well as blogs. Here’s the NYT Prescriptions blog: . . . there was an ugly tone to comments made by some demonstrators against three black lawmakers: Representatives Andr? Carson of Indiana, Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri and John Lewis of Georgia, all Democrats. An aide to …
Oh my goodness
Update: Holy smokes, they did hold on. That gnashing sound you hear? Every member of every office pool in the country grinding his or her teeth. If Northern Iowa somehow holds on to beat Kansas, there won’t be a clean bracket left in this country. A 9-pt lead with 8:30 to go in the second …
Right-wing nervous breakdown
So does Joe Klein describe “the froth-at-the-mouth-rabidity [which] seems to be increasing across the board…and the reason for this is the probable passage of the health care reform legislation on Sunday in the House of Representatives.” Klein goes on to enumerate several of the things the bill will do, and then says: This is a …
March Madness 2010, Day One
I’ve already got two losses. Murray State over Vanderbilt? A thirteen-seed beating a four-seed? The other loss? Old Dominion over Notre Dame. I didn’t put any thought into any of these choices; if I had I might have been torn about this one. Yes, I’m a lapsed Catholic with residual good feelings about Notre Dame, …
A joke thread? Really?
Yes, really. Every “3 X walked into a bar” construction you’ve ever wanted to see, along with other forms of wisecrack. This one‘s not new, but for some reason it really struck me funny when I read it this morning: A grasshopper hops into a bar, says “Gimme a beer.” The bartender serves him and …