Quote of the Day [4.11.09]
All my heart
All of your tears
Our whole world
Is smoke and mirrors
Thievery Corporation, “The Mirror Conspiracy”
Link of the Day [4.11.09]
I need to move somewhere where I can ride a bike to work. Baltimore? Or some other place. I just want to ride to work.
Quote of the Day [4.10.09]
Do you applaud fear?
Do you hold it near?
Are you afraid to live your life the way I perceive?
In my arms, I’ll catch you.
Do you mind if I’ll always loved you?
Heaven’s gonna burn your eyes.
You’ll see.
In my dreams, I’ll catch you.
Into my arms I’ll catch you.
Do you mind if I’ll always loved you?
Thievery Corporation, “Heaven’s Gonna Burn Your Eyes”
Link of the Day [4.10.09]
The problem of universal health coverage is “[t]o mandate that everyone purchase health insurance, as many have suggested, would require that the government specify what constitutes adequate coverage — in other words, what health conditions an insurance policy would need to cover.”
So no need for universal health coverage, because then the government will tell us what medical coverage we can get, and we certainly don’t need the government controlling our health. And we certainly don’t need the government telling the free market on what it can cover. The free market will take care of everything.
With a free market system we can give tax breaks to people to seek their own coverage in the health insurance market, but we’ll need to adjust the market so that “state mandates that require insurers to cover certain conditions, which make it expensive to offer individual policies, could be removed.”
But that is the crux of the health insurance problem isn’t it?
Without universal coverage, insurers will decide on who to insure, and in the health insurance business you want to minimize what you spend so that you want to cover only the healthiest people out there. The healthy don’t go in for any costly treatments. Eliminating the need to cover certain conditions would eliminate those people with those conditions from ever being able to receive insurance, and it would give the health insurance industry cover as they drop all sick people from their plans.
That’s why we want universal coverage, so that no one, no matter their health gets insurance. The cost of scale should make it then cheap for everyone.
Quote of the Day [4.09.09]
Cause I’m the Thriller of Manila, MC cold killer
Drink Budweiser, cannot stand Miller
MC’s cold clockin’ til the party’s through
then they tap me on my shoulder and say, “This Bud’s for you”
EPMD, “It’s My Thing”
First Place, Baby!
I'm still high coming off the Opening Day awesome win over the hated
Yankees. I'm still happy for the new Kiko Garcia, No. 3, Cesar Izturis,
hitting that home run to put the game away. So when I look at the
standings going into the third game of the season and I see an
undefeated, first place team, I'm happy. YAY! I missed most all of last night's game, Koji "Kojira" Uehara debut in
the Orange and Black. I should've gone as the place was only half
packed. Today's game is at 1:35. I love day games. I should sneak out of work.
That would be so fun.Hopefully, we can break out the brooms for a sweep.Go O's!
Link of the Day [4.09.09]
Kawashita-sensei of “Ichigo 100%” infamy had written another manga with cute girls, “Hatsukoi Limited.” It’s being made into an anime. Next to Mazukazo of “I”s” fame, she draws wonderfully cute girls. But her boys are a bunch of dolts. Anywhoo, when the anime comes out, I guess I’ll be trying to see if it’s any good. You can always go and read the manga at some scanlation site.
Kumar goes to the White House
Kal Pen of Harold and Kumar fame takes a job with the Obama administration.
I don’t know why this fascinates me this morning. It’s more than likely that I was wondering if this guy can get the administration to take decriminalization of marijuana seriously rather than to snicker like high high school students at the suggestion of legalization. And perhaps Doogie Howser will show up to trash the White House one day.
Quote of the Day [4.08.09]
“You take yourself out of the game, you start talking about puppy dogs and ice cream and of course it’s going to end up on the friendship tip.”
Trent (Vince Vaughn), “Swingers”