This one's for the ladies: Rape is a pre-existing condition

Click title, read article, and decide which bureaucrat you want: the one that whores for your vote (government officials) or the one that won't let you get healthcare because you were raped (any insurance company).

Yeah... the free market has some holes. Who could have imagined that making pre-existing conditions a bottom-line issue would have bad results?

Interracial couple denied marriage license

Click that title, read the article, and then join me in saying "You've got to be fucking kidding me."

I suppose I'll tell my cousins that they will later suffer and that our family does not accept offspring such as them.

You know what... nevermind. Ed already said that he won't talk about it. maybe that's the best way to go.

TSA agents took my son

(click title, read, be appalled)

An interesting demonstration of the eternally genius Benjamin Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

I'm all for airport screenings, but there's a line where it becomes invasive and oppressive. Orwell would be horrified.

Japanese Porn Game Comes With Breasts, G-Cup Bra

(Click title) Not Safe For Work

Gotta love controller innovation. Hooray for the Japs!

Ralph Lauren And Its Lawyers Discover The Streisand Effect On Bogus DMCA Takedown

(Click the title for the offlink)

Hehe. I love the internet. Someone criticizes a Ralph Lauren ad. Ralph Lauren gets pissed and sends a cease and desist citing DMCA violations. Google (the blog's host) pulls the post, of course. If you don't understand why, read my previous post about the DMCA and\or Bruce Everiss' elaboration on British libel law.

But there's always the Streisand Effect in play on the web. Draw enough attention with your nonsense, and the world will respond.

Healthcare: Wendell Porter

I'm still somewhat open to alternative solutions, but single-payer does seem the best way to go.

From some news site:

One of the panelists, former Cigna Health Insurance executive-turned whistleblower Wendell Potter, said in his opening statement that if Congress “fails to create a public insurance option to compete with private insurers, the bill it sends to the president might as well be called the Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act.”

Forgive the use of a random-ass site. I just wanted to make sure you saw that I didn't pull reformed smegma-sucking asshole Wendell Porter's quote out of my ass (he's still a putz for his past, but at least he realizes it now). Those guys framed it in a way that explained who he was and gave the quote without requiring me to use ellipses between the two. Now for the PBS interview with the same guy (if YouTube sucks at buffering it, try this instead):


The interview plays like an advertisement, but there are some fundamental points in there that people all too often don't actually consider. More on healthcare in the future no doubt.