This proved so popular that they had to move this part of the operation to a nearby stadium, where they hydrated and chilled any and everybody who came by. I told them afterwards that I was their customer for life, but it turned out that we moved two or three years later, making a liar of me. I still can’t forget their incredible generosity. For that matter, I still remember their in-store sushi bar. Yum.

WTF does “Xecky Gilchrist said,

August 14, 2009 at 21:27

I heard this on Stephanie Miller this morning and thought it was a joke.

It does indeed ring the Poe’s Law bell pretty hard.”

Poe’s Law? As in Edgar Allen? I know Edgar. He is a friend of mine in literature. I wanna know his law, because I sure like what his brain … so far revealed… unhappy life, short, drinker, marriage, family hated, … just my kinda whacky eccentric guy. (I sing karaoke -damn good- in front of crowds. I ain’t scared+STYLE, Baby! Queen: Dont Stop Me Now.) Xecky Gilchrest, get back and enlighten me on Poe’s law, that or I wikipedia and cut you off at the nuts (whoops, KNEES, yeah, KNEES!) whoops, first. Get back to me, I gotta know Poe’s first law. And I presume there may be second, third… enlighten me. I am willing, waiting, wanna… (My Fair Lady) do it. I emplore you.

Pinefresh is a WF troll. I got that same response from WF when I wrote them an email about the op-ed. They are trying to pretend Mackay is a health reform advocate, just offering helpful suggestions, not spewing discredited Republican talking points in an attempt to kill real reform.

Of course, the Randian would answer, thats their problem and they will lose and eventually “evolve” or whatever out. But they wont. Its human nature. It exists everywhere; Randians dont. If we were all Randians, maybe the world would be better, I dont know. But we are not, so the whole “humans are logical beings and I must live by logic and espouse that everything will eventually settle into the most logical economy” is based on a false premise. That humans are logical.

Eventually I figured this out. While Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were great books, and I learned a lot about myself and people from reading it, its proposals are ideas, and I see them as a tribute to ideals rather than a tribute to a humanity.

Entire swathes of the country (like, say, Eastern Oregon) has essentially no OB/GYN coverage.

And yet Western Oregon manages to have tons of OB/GYN coverage, despite operating under the same malpractice laws and insurance policies as the eastern half of the state. Think it might have something to do with how much money they make rather than malpractice insurance? I’m guessing that rich Portlanders are a more preferred patient base than rural Harney County residents.

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I believe that qualifies. No need to be a zombietroll, like some.

I went to the ER earlier this year to have a toenail removed. We have insurance, easy procedure, paid a 50 buck copay. So they do this already.

Second, he’s not advocating having insurers cover less – he’s advocating giving an individual the right to take certain coverages away in search of a lower premium (ie. a single man not having to pay for maternity, a non-drinker not having to pay for rehab).

This is also done already, at least the maternity thing. I paid for insurance for my employees, and could see quite clearly that women of ‘a certain age’ had a significantly higher premium. They didn’t call it maternity surcharge, which I suspect is illegal, but it certainly quacked like a duck.

And frankly, some insurance plans don’t cover abuse treatment; but opting out of an available one is sheer lunacy. what, no non-drinkers ever started drinking? Stupid idea.

Cover everyone. Include dental, vision, and reproductive. Botox and boner pills should be out of pocket.

I also am in Madison. I’d check the Willy Street Co-Op if you haven’t already, they have a pretty good line-up of unglutened products (I think) and also take suggestions. If the 10% non-owner surcharge curls your nose, well, how is that worse than the 10% discount most big-chain stores give the members who sign away all their marketing information? At least the Co-Op’s up front about it.

I’d been avoiding becoming a member of the Willy Street Co-Op for ages, but I signed up last week.

The TJs here is pretty small, s’true. I tend to raid their frozen section for deals and buy cheap cooking wine there.

Hm, three of us in Madison and counting… though I’m not a REAL SadlyNaught. I just lurk and enjoy the shadenfreude.

Not as tall as Hardrada- note that I am not the TBBB.

I think that the OB/GYN bar up there should say $5500 instead of $55,000.

Not a chance. OB/GYN malpractice exposure is genuinely in need of reform. Entire swathes of the country (like, say, Eastern Oregon) has essentially no OB/GYN coverage.

It’s not an excuse to harp on overall malpractice reform, nor is malpractice reform remotely related to health care reform or anything like that, but ironically the rightest thing Bush ever said was his line about how OB/GYNS need to be free to practice their love of women.