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Evil, thy name is, health insurance corporations...

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.

ER Docs think Cops use Excessive Force.

No, shit? Really?

Holiday Snark

May His Noodly Appendage bless you

The War on Terror, Pot, and Thought.

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.