You don’t have insurance. You go to the hospital and there’s a $10k bill. What do you do? You pay $10k or you go to jail. Now you may very easily be dropped by your insurance, but whatever. You have insurance. You go to the hospital and there’s a $10k bill. What does the insurance [...]
Science writer Simon Singh is being sued by the British Chiropractic Association because he called chiropractic treatment for things like asthma “bogus”. He’s totally right, and chiropractic – the real deal, not the basically valid physical therapy that one often finds – is looney tunes witchcraft. Like acupuncture, it’s all about unobservable energy in the [...]
I’m halfway through the Circle of Greed, and I’m done. I’m sufficiently pissed off at all the stupid jumping/swinging puzzles. With the infrequent saves, you’re forced to recollect relics and such, and then try the stupid fail-and-die jumping puzzle again and again. Collect the crap, jump, fall, die, restart, collect the crap, jump, fall, die, [...]
Trying to install a couple of games for Mona, Sims 3 and Spore, and the EADM in OSX is just awful, and I mean awful. It’s hideously slow, it doesn’t support interrupted downloads, and it bombs out without warning all the time. I’ve tried updating Sims 3 about ten times now. I’ve investigated their website, [...]
She’s media-savvy. But she’s an idiot. And this proves it. She can’t recall the simplest points of her entire platform, so she resorts to writing them on her hand. Contrast with Obama, who went to the GOP to duke it out, and was able to bring his principles with him without crib-sheet help, while also [...]
Just watched the entire unedited interview from earlier this week when John Stewart went on O’Reilly’s show. John has an amazing amount of patience with a lot of childish passive aggressiveness from Bill. He makes good points, and doesn’t get drawn deeply into debates that are designed for him to lose. It was really great [...]
Obama needs to get out more. The Friday session at the GOP retreat was an amazing bit of head to head politics. Obama was both friendly and devastating. It clearly wasn’t personal with him, it was business, and in a businesslike manner, he demonstrated that the public agenda of the Republicans is beneath anyone with [...]
So we lost the Chicken Run DVD a couple of years ago, left a whole pack of DVDs on an airplane. Yatsze must have seen it in the bargain bin or something, because she picked it up again today, and the kids were watching it when I got home. Sadie was sitting on the couch, [...]
