I had to assure my vegetarian niece that absolutely no human flesh made it into the chili.

I made vegetarian chili for Thanksgiving for my niece, who is — wait for it — a vegetarian, and while slicing the carrots, I managed to shear off about half my fingernail, along with a pretty thick slab of the underlying cuticle & skin.

Setting aside the obvious racial issues with Nixon, in many respects he was to the left of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. And yes, I include foreign policy as one of those aspects — despite Vietnam & Cambodia, he was less of a neocon type than they are.

GM in general, and Cadillac in particular, are building some astonishingly good cars right now, mechanically speaking. But they are still selling poorly because too many people do not understand that fact. But if you bolted that Elmiraj body onto any existing platform that would fit it, and Cadillac would have…

Counter-counter-counterpoint:

+1 for noticing! I have never been able to get out of the grays at Kotaku, so I tend not to post here very often — especially lengthy posts like that. Seems like a waste of effort if no one will ever see it.

There is nothing wrong with escapism, as long as you do it in moderation. My wife grumbles about me playing games sometimes, but the funny thing is that she has her own escape valves, such as her craft room, that serve little practical purpose other than recreational. (And considering that she is a recovering…

Robert Lang is an origami god. I have several of his collections, and treasure them dearly.

“Prenatal care and postnatal care prevents disease, not just expense. Children are not a disease or a dysfunction.”

My wife’s knees will yield more people to cover/buy policies for? The point is not merely regarding contraception coverage; it is that insurance companies are loath to pay out for preventative care of all sorts, despite the fact that it would save them money in the long run.

Arguably, finding out what it really meant might be even MORE heartbreaking for someone in that position, due to discovering the choices that are being made and the bittersweet sacrifice involved. (Hopefully that was clear enough for someone who has seen it, but vague enough for someone who has not.)

Well, yes, that would be an exception to the fact that I mentioned above about dental coverage doing better with preventative care than regular medical coverage! But I was thinking mostly in terms of the fact they they generally cover routine checkups & cleanings with no copay. When it comes to things like you…

That objection would only hold water if defects & disease were the only two things that health insurance covered. But that is not the case. All of the normal prenatal care & childbirth costs that I mentioned — and those are SUBSTANTIAL costs — are covered by nearly any insurance plan out there. If there is an…

Oh, absolutely. One of the biggest failures of the ACA is that it does not put any truly meaningful cost containment measures into place. The notion that the free market will always do the right thing is absurd, and especially absurd when health care is involved.

Before we opted for The Final Solution several years ago, my wife had five-year IUDs put in two times, and we had to pay 100% out of pocket for them. The insurance companies were not required to cover them in my state. That is so bafflingly stupid that I can hardly stand thinking about it. They would rather spend…

Like I said, he may well have intended it that way, but speaking as someone who worked in retail for more than fifteen years, and who has dealt with multiple retailers every day in the fifteen years since, it is nowhere near that black & white. There are myriad phrases that you use every day by rote without even…

Hmmm. . .

I absolutely LOVE Molten Orange. If I had gone with a FiST, that would have been non-negotiable. But that car is just too small to be practical for me, especially with the Recaros. I have the ST3 package on my FoST, and I dearly, dearly love the full leather Recaros, so I would not trade them in for anything. …

See, I drive a Tangerine Scream FoST, and apparently that blinding color was not visually loud enough to prevent some jackass in a parking lot from BACKING INTO MY BABY AND SMASHING THE GRILL WITH HIS/HER RUSTY TRAILER HITCH. Or from driving off without notifying me, either.

Maybe. But given how little attention he was paying to anything around him, I am not so sure. He looked half asleep.