In buyouts, however, benefits and PTO are generally continuous — the prevalent thinking being that the employees didn’t choose to join a new company, but their new company was brought to them. Having to go 90 days without health insurance because of a buyout is not business as usual. There is usually a date on which…

Djimon Hounsou, too. I will be there opening day just for those two.

I get irrationally angry when people misidentify crochet as knitting and vice versa, as in the picture for this post.

Anyone else remember her as Hayley from All My Children? Why can’t she just be a fake goth in a black wig again?

Huh. And yet these Precious Unborn Babies™ can’t make it to Waskom on their own, so ‘sanctuary’ is for whom, exactly?

My doc is on the north shore of Chicago if you’re close and need a referral.

That’s ridiculous. You could be enjoying your life NOW, while you still can. If/when you need a revision you can deal with that then. Medical protocols change all the time and revisions may be much easier in 20 years. Hell, the protocols changed in the 5 years between my first TKR and my second. Plus recovery is much…

I’m really sorry you are having this much trouble. If you can afford to, it might be worth traveling to a larger metropolitan area to a teaching hospital or larger medical center. My ortho said, “We’ll do it when you’re ready.” I decided I was tired of being in pain and limiting my life because of it. Even if you…

Tell those orthos to fuck off if they won’t do replacements. I have double replacements, my first when I was 40! It was the right decision. They will last at least 20 years in which time surgical techniques will grow by leaps and bounds and replacing them may not be an ordeal. You deserve to not be in pain today.

Soooo...$500 to watch a live infomercial?

Sounds legit.

Sensitive New Age Guys.

“dessert dust”

There are indicators from early in his life that indicate Jim Jones was a sociopath long before People’s Temple and that his “good works” were a con from the very beginning. If you’re interested in this topic, I suggest the book “Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People” by Tim Reiterman.

I’m saying she shouldn’t, as a successful actress, publicly shit on the renewal of a job that will help the hundred or so other people who work on that show pay their mortgages and such.

There’s also this fun little bill in Alabama being floated that allows for criminalization of “false rape” claims. Mind you, false police reports of any kind are already illegal in Alabama, but this goes a step further: If the accused is found not guilty, the accuser would be responsible for paying the accused…

She does seem rather well-adjusted to have been married to that trainwreck of a person. Makes me wonder if she was always that way or had to grow up in order to stay sane around Mr. Tiger Blood.

The “artists should only make fine art” take is kind of pretentious. Sometimes you want fine dining and sometimes you want Taco Bell. They both have their place.

And in other news, OJ doesn’t think he murdered his wife. 

I’m taking Mom to a Tony Bennett concert next Friday. No crap she doesn’t want or need. We both love him and we’ll have a lovely memory of time spent together.

Murphy has great ideas. The execution can be hit or miss.