Archive for September, 2009
Baucus Plan Crapitude, Take III
PREFACE I was going to write a well-thought-out, sourced piece about healthcare, but I’ve gotten lazy, so it’s just a bunch of related and unrelated points running together. Sometimes I will just keep such posts in eternal draft mode. But since I don’t [Read More]
Insomniac Dialysis Blogging
I’ve been going to dialysis for a full month now. I’ve been meaning to write a big post on the details of how these dialysis sessions transpire. I’m still not feeling like doing that, however. Apart from the present moment, I tend not to want to think [Read More]
Toastie History – Pinnacle
I’ve got to head to nocturnal dialysis shortly, and after my first experience with that Tuesday night, I’m not really looking forward to it. So I’ve been on dialysis for almost a month, and I haven’t really written about what it’s like yet. [Read More]
Toastie History – 30 Years Ago
First person to correctly identify me wins…eternal recognition in the big blog cloud in the sky. This is nursery school, by the way (I guess they call it pre-K these days).I think this is referred to as pre-school. I’ve got these albums of photos that have never [Read More]
How Evil Is Medco?
I received a call from Medco, the gigantic prescription drug benefit company. The woman on the other line said she was a pharmacist, and she wanted to review my medications. My ire over the state of healthcare in this country and the ridiculous state of the national debate [Read More]
Rich Dad Creepy Dad
I’ve been seeing a lot of these ads on Facebook for what I presume is some sort of men’s financial empowerment seminar series, because, I suppose, men are one of the main demographics that is hurting in this economy. I don’t know anything about it, [Read More]
Baucus Plan Crapitude (Cont’d)
The Baucus bill is a gift to the insurance industry that fails to meet the most basic promise of health care reform: a guarantee that Americans will have good health care that they can afford. The Baucus bill would give a government-subsidized monopoly to the private [Read More]
10 Reasons Why Baucus Plan Ought To Be DOA
1. He short-changed many Democratic Party ideas in order to craft a “bipartisan” bill that, so far, no Republican has said he or she would vote for. 2. There’s no public option, but Americans will be mandated to purchase insurance in what amounts to a [Read More]
Wrecking Bull
I happened to come upon the Wikipedia page for wrecking ball. (Why? I was doing some superfluous Mafia Wars research). Lo and behold, of all the wrecking balls in the world to use an illustration, this page uses a photo of a wrecking ball in Durham, NC. What an honor for [Read More]
