BCBS of Alabama is nonprofit. That doesn’t mean they can’t be greedy or awful or subject to the same market forces that make for-profit insurers act in awful greedy ways, but it’s not for the sake of higher corporate profits.

I did not know that about those surveys, and now I feel terrible.

It’s the quintessential modern American story: I needed to work for a for-profit health insurance company because group insurance through my job was the only way I could get coverage for my pre-existing condition.

Outside of pay-for-performance for politicians, which really doesn’t make sense, there’s one party fighting for reform and one party fighting against it. And outside of a complete constitutional overhaul we’re stuck with a two-party system.

Well one problem might be that one of the two major parties’ health care policy is “just die already, poor people.” So go vote for the party that claims government doesn’t work—and proves it every time they’re in power!

It might just be a case of being the easiest thing to do, but it also helps avoid copyright strikes.

Last time I tried Bumble it appeared to sort matches by attractiveness (i.e. swipe ratio I assume), which makes it great for the really attractive and less so for the rest of us. But then again, life works similarly...

Yeah, my knees hurt just watching him awkwardly swing his legs around like stilts.

Say what you will about using carbon-fiber-reinforced-polymer for a pickup bed, but it’s at least more appropriate a material than platinum.

Old school? That looks like a cellulose-fiber-reinforced-polymer bed to me.

Time to stop living in denali.

A tailgate that’s easy to steal is cheap to replace by definition. ;-)

A proper car-area network/bus protocol (and perhaps a little redundancy) would make diagnosing a wiring fault easier rather than harder. And a horse with wings could fly.

Aren’t most buses multidrop? Isn’t that part of what distinguishes a bus from a point-to-point link?

“Also, 1,400 lbs is right around the payload for most Minivans.”

Wait, that article mentions he wrote about OkCupid on his personal site, but he wasn’t writing for them, was he?

IANAL, but it sure looks like Gas Monkey Tequila violates NAFTA Annex 313.3, not that the US government has been that interested in upholding NAFTA lately. Then again, it says “Made in America”, not “Made in the US”. And even if it did say “Made in the United States”, the formal name for Mexico in English is the…

Did I spend way too long wondering why the guy would put badges on his car only in the winter? Yes, yes I did.

“don’t get too alarmed or you’ll loose your front row bike!”

“Early Money Is Like Yeast”