I read in Salon’s newsfeed that the Administration is refusing to release a memo exploring how senior citizen decisions on medicare will affect their out-of-pocket costs. In theory, the memo says refusing to convert to HMO Medicare will increase their health care costs by as much as 25%.
According to the AP story on “Salon”:http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/06/25/memo/index.html [...] Read more »

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Being no Martha Stewart fan myself, this really hadn’t occured to me until I saw a daily show rerun. (Daily Show Clip: Real Player required)
Why are we convicting Martha Stewart — and feeling triumphant about it — when all those other crooks are still around? Why aren’t the Enron crew in jail?
Martha wasn’t a [...] Read more »

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Again, I’m liking Howard Dean. Of course, he may be far too liberal to be electable. After all, he’s taxed-and-spent Vermont into a massive deficit. Irresponsible deficit spending like that was never tolerated in George Bush’s Texas.
And Vermont citizens aren’t even allowed to have spitballs, much less carry concealed weapons.
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I want to introduce two weblogs. They’ve been around for a little bit, but they’re only updated in fits and starts. So here’s hoping there are more fits and starts:
* “Bristol Country”:http://www.bristolcountry.com/ is my father’s weblog. It’s slated to be a regional Southwest Virginia/Northeast Tennessee news weblog for displaced Bristolians. You know, the kind of [...] Read more »

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My “old entry”:http://www.thudfactor.com/archives/001265.php on the 2002 winner of the Worst Manual Contest reminded me to check the Tech Standards web site again.
“2003 awards have been given!”:http://www.tecstandards.com/2003winner.htm Most of the winners are mangled English, but my favorite — Runner Up #1 — is bad for other reasons than confused syntax…. Read more »

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