It's insane to me that I pay a company a ridiculous amount of money to decide whether or not I can get health care and those decisions are based on that's company's bottom line and whatever scant consumer protections the government has decided to impose.

Yeah, but it still broke my heart. I'm still not over Elliot Spitzer.

Asleep by the Smiths www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mF4...

"High energy" = only under 30 need apply

Reading this made me want to cry in the shower.

But if they are talking about jobs, employers are asked to submit those numbers every month. Can't they just send out requests for October's numbers? I didn't get a request in October, but if they sent one to me now I can get them the data lickety split.

I have over 20 years of managing annual open enrollments and I can say positively that Americans don't want to work that hard at getting insurance.

Ken Follet is a good storyteller. His style is so simple that the barrier between words and the story disappears. But there aren't wow moments where you are marveling at a beautiful or perfect sentence. Complete contract with McEwan whose writing is so beautiful the story almost doesn't matter.

Can confirm this is a great read.

This is exactly what we have been talking about in our pantry committee meetings - the community is going to get tapped out. Fund raisers and food drives will be less and less effective. We are trying to unite the pantries and combine efforts, so we at least aren't competing with each other.

The theme song is what drew me in to watch Buffy and I became a big fan.

I feel your pain.

And winter is coming.

I see your Erika with a K and raise you a Patrisia with an S!

Interesting that the modern Republican party has its roots in explicit racism.