See you talk, but all I hear is “me me me me me me me me”. You don’t want to pay to help sick people. I bet you also don’t want to pay to have nice roads because you don’t drive on all of them. I bet you don’t want to pay school taxes because you don’t have kids in one. I bet you don’t want to pay the fire…

Nah. See, his disease killed my dad, but my mom has been on disability for the last couple of decades (before you think this is some sort of collusion, they’d been divorced for a decade before my mom got sick, a decade before dad, with an entirely different disease). As well as an old family friend. So I’ve seen the…

However, you see all these guys with “back” problems and other basic maladies that allow then to suck the system dry and thats where people get the idea that Medicaid and Medicare just suck dollars out of the budget.

The fries are always the same. ...  They can be formed. They can be pulped into mush and then sculpted into mass copies of the same product model.

Wow, somehow with all the previous articles I’ve read about this case, I had no idea anyone other than Sandusky had had criminal charges pressed! Good.

1. I don’t believe that you have sufficient cash and investments on hand to cover the total cost I’m talking about, which is a very common scenario pre-ACA, which is roughly equivalent to paying for a nice house in cash. You do realize that out of pocket maximums don’t fully limit what you can be charged out of…

The problem is that getting adequate healthcare in the US is not at all the same thing as saving up to buy a new car.

As I was leaving, I wondered if there could be a less efficient method with even less chance of success to kill someone, than cutting a car’s brake lines.

I’m severely tempted to try this, but not because I need juicier raisins. I’m allergic to* grapes but have no problems with raisins, wine, or any other grape derivative, and I’d kind of like to experiment with at what point they stop being an issue. On the other hand, I’d be literally testing my health, so it might…

I’m actually pretty okay with Alonso being sad.

Does it actually sense the gumline receding, a hole in your teeth, bleeding, etc? Or is it just guessing based on your habits? Because I’m sure I need better dental cleaning habits for my gums’ sake, but I’ll laugh in the face of any app that tries to tell me I have a cavity forming.

Does it actually sense the gumline receding, a hole in your teeth, bleeding, etc? Or is it just guessing based on…

That completely sucks, and your cautionary tale is an important one. There are those of us who just lucked out with super strong teeth, though. When I had braces, the brackets kept randomly falling off until the orthodontist figured out he had to etch the surface of the tooth twice as long as for a normal person.…

Didn’t know it was a woman, did you? Just assumed it was a guy? A guy who was fine with a sexist corporate culture?

The Life Aquatic is worth watching for the Portuguese Bowie covers alone.

My (yes, unfortunately Republican) mother excused Trump’s comments about underaged girls, and anything else he might have done with one, with “their mothers were trash, throwing them at him.” Which, first of all, gross, and secondly, makes me worry about what her teenage years might have been like to consider that…

How often do people realistically use an ambulance that makes an ambulance subscription worth it, even at $5 a month? I’m incredibly clumsy and accident prone, but I’ve only had one ambulance ride in my entire life (when I was dizzy after a car accident).

I’ve read all the articles on howing crying is supposed to make you feel better, but I think that part of my brain is broken. All crying does for me is make me feel the same but also headachy, snotty, and dehydrated.

My outlook improved dramatically when I realized that my best case scenario - that he’s going to be so busy scamming money via being President that he won’t spend much time doing truly irreparable damage to the country or world - is also the most probable one.  The eventual recession or depression will suck, but he…

Seriously, what kind of shitty programmer willingly introduces two ways to do the same thing into the same code? You’re just begging for bugs, increased testing times, and long term maintenance nightmares, and for coders down the road to curse your name and code and wonder why you were so stupid.

I have never been more pleased to have had my tonsils removed as a small child.