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In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Lots of ink was spilled about Michael Vick and his horrible abuse of the Pit Bull Terriers on his property. The fact that he's cooling his heels in jail, rather than enjoying himself in a McMansion in suburban Atlanta is little solace to the dogs that suffered and died for his and his friends' amusement. Most people naturally assumed that all of the dogs rescued from Vick's property would be summarily "put down," the euphemism that uncannily is never applied to ourselves. Even holier than thou animal rights group PETA suggested that they all be killed without even cursory evaluation... well, I was happy to find that most of the dogs have been rehabbed and most of them have found new homes. Sports Illustrated, usually keen to tug at other parts of the male anatomy, rather than the heart, has a wonderful article on what has happened to the "Michael Vick Dogs." ... click here for a slide show. And PS, read the article please before you reply with any unin...

Calif. teen's family sues Cigna over transplant LOS ANGELES – The family of a 17-year-old leukemia patient has sued health insurance giant Cigna Corp. for her death in 2007 after the company initially refused to pay for a liver transplant. The lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court by the family's attorney, Mark Geragos, alleges breach of contract, unfair business practices and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The suit accuses Cigna of delaying and rejecting valid claims, which resulted in the wrongful death of Nataline Sarkisyan. The Philadelphia-based insurer eventually approved the transplant after Sarkisyan's family held a rally outside Cigna's suburban Los Angeles office. Nataline, however, died hours after the approval was secured. Bastards.

No, shit? Really?

This sucks: Four recruiter suicides in single battalion spark Army probe

So, 2 1/2 tons of Pot (wow, that's so, so dangerous) was found in a abandoned Afghanistan school (must have been shitty weed). I'm sorry. I know it is a serious thing, the counter-insurgency campaign in that godforsaken country, but why is it headline news that some pot, that serves as black-market currency (that's why the world should legalize all drugs, first and foremost)? I know, because American sensibility is so fucking skewed that a small mountain of pot (2 1/2 tons is a shitload, granted) ranks above the hideous theft of the treasury, the possible impending collapse of the auto industry (without which, we'd have lost WWII), and Obama tapping a homophobic bigot to give the invocation at his inauguration.

Christmas next week... love the season for my son, otherwise... would like to just have New Year's Eve, and skip straight to the flowering of the plants in the Spring.

Protect Marriage, Protect Children, Prohibit Divorce PS Homophobia is just, like, ohmygawd, like so, gay.

Funny things, PCs. My $400 laptop runs circles around my $2300 Sony Vaio (2.8 GHz P4, 1GB RAM) because it is 5 years "younger." Amazing shit. I bought a little USB HDTV ATSC receiver and enjoy beautiful over-the-air HD broadcasts on my laptop... for shits and grins, I plugged it in to my Sony, and it was as if I'd asked it to solve Pi to 3 million decimal places! LOL! It did a decent, albeit, hitchy job of displaying standard definition channels, but HD? Nope. Ah, Moore's law continues, no longer is it clock cycles, but it will be again, and then it will be architecture change again (multiple cores for now), ad infinitum ... until we accidentally build SkyNet. I'm guessing in 10 years, a run-of-the-mill PC will have the computational power of some of the "supercomputers" of today. I know, not a stretch. I'm just trying to get my head around the software that will be inevitably written to bog down that much CPU/Memory horsepower, because those damn d...

I've been on Facebook for a few months; but only recently have I used it to catch up to old friends... mostly because my best friend (who is, apparently the glue that binds our circle of friends) decided to check it out. All of a sudden I'm fielding "friend requests," from people I hadn't seen in over 20 years... so cool...

So, I was in the gym minding my own business when this little dude (shorter than I, so yeah, little) walks up to the woman working out next to me and I can't help but over hear him prattling on about how he is going to set up tables at an old folks home and get medicare to pay for his 'services.' I assume he's a massage therapist or worse, a chiropractor. I don't pay it much mind, but then he launches into a mini-diatribe toward his clearly uninterested friend about how Obama is going to ruin the health care industry in his first year in office, and blah, fucking, blah, fucking, yada , yada . I sighed loudly and rolled my eyes. He turned to me, and asked me what I thought since I obviously didn't agree. I told him that I thought if we could borrow what works from European and Canadian models I think we could seriously reduce the cost of health care (which is the highest in the world, yet we have a much higher mortality rate anyway) and provide coverage for many...

House approves $14 billion rescue bill for U.S. automakers I mean seriously, this is just fucking surreal. All of a sudden, after giving Paulson and the Wall St. banks a $350 BILLION blank check (with another already signed for another cool 400 Bill), they are getting chintzy with US companies that actually make shit and employ millions of people, you know, American people? The freaking nerve, eh? I know that the big 3 ain't all that popular, but still... letting them go under during this downturn, is like telling someone who is having a heart attack that they should perhaps, go on a diet or something.

[snark] Barack Obama got his political start in Illinois. So, since the current Governor of Illinois, who is, by the way, bat-shit crazy or incredibly, incredibly stupid, but, yet, somehow cynically cunning, this then means Obama is clearly unqualified to assume office. Even though Obama's campaign scrupulously and overtly avoided the Governor at every turn. Nevertheless, President-Elect Obama is connected, closer than Kevin Bacon for sure, and should spare the United States any further embarrassment and ask Bush to stay on until 2012 at least, perhaps until 2016 even. [/snark]