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QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 10:58 PM) Which is subsidized by higher rates for everyone else. Same s***, different pony. Some people might be stupid enough to think its progress though. Yep, some people are just stupid. In one scenario the hospital doesn't get paid, in the other the hospital does get paid. Some people may be too stupid to understand that when companies get paid for services they can continue to offer services to all their customers. It's a basic business concept that the average person understands, but like you said, some people are stupid.

Almost finished with my master's classes. Studies in Gender and Studies in American Literature are on tap for this semester. One professor is a Faulkner scholar and the other is a Mailer fan.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 05:13 PM) OK, maybe not the most caring way he could have phrased that question, but really, who IS paying for that? if it is on the public dime, at what point do we accept medical diagnosis that she is indeed dead and beyond recovery? The old medical system allowed people without insurance to basically skip out on the bill. A poor person never had the money to pay medical bills that could easily amount to the same as their lifetime earnings. Now with the Affordable Care Act she should have had insurance.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 09:33 PM) The Lord of the Rings books are borderline unreadable. The movies are masterpieces. I find that interesting. Why do you believe you find the books borderline unreadable?

Unless you don't know me you will understand why my students hear Steam's NaNa Hey Hey when they are called out of my class.

I was surprised that I enjoyed the movie version of "On the Road". I am a big Kerouac fan and I just didn't believe I would enjoy any adaptation, even if I did it myself. I was hoping to see "Big Sur" in theaters but the opening was small and never spread near me. I was reasonable pleased watching the "Lord of the Rings" movies. Perhaps because my expectations were small. I really did not like the movie "I am Legend" mostly because it did not follow most the literary analysis of the book. When the book was published there was a lot of "white flight" from the cities. Many scholars believed that the vampires were a metaphor for blacks and the protagonist represented whites fleeing from the cities or staying and dying. As for the movie that bested the book -- "Jaws".

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 8, 2014 -> 06:42 PM) Megan Thomas ‏@meganthomas35 51m President Obama just called my husband!! #BigHurtHOF I was wondering if he called. I figure the most prominent Sox fan would take advantange of being President and making that call. I would.

Tears in my eyes. I remain a baseball fan.

Oh my. It is finally warm 60+ here

There really is a huge difference between being a senior manager of a company and driving a truck. You have the perfect job if you want to make racist tweets. No one really even knows what company you work for or probably cares. That isn't the same for a very visible senior manager of one of the industry's biggest companies. Her Twitter account isn't an anonymous private account. She generally uses it as a forum to promote herself within the industry.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 08:54 PM) Hot drinks for evening temps in the 40s? LOL It was 86 here today.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 09:18 PM) So we should all just define ourselves by our job. If your employer wouldn't like something you do in your personal life you just shouldn't do it? Fffffuuuuuuccckkkkkkkkkk that. Most people understand that with management positions, especially senior management, comes greater responsibilities and expectations of behavior. With the six figure salary comes demands on yourself 24/7. Clearly those types of positions would not be for someone who wants to spew racist statements. They would be better off taking an entry level position without any real visibility to their company.

She has a history of making offensive comments through social media and her employer has warned her. She has had a pretty serious position in a major corporation. This isn't some low level cubical worker. Still the tweets that followed her while she was in the air were funny.

As I'm packing to get away for a couple weeks and looking at the weather forecast I realized that with evening temps in the 40s I should be prepared with hot drinks. My two go to drinks are a mulled red wine with cinnamon, orange zest, orange juice, cloves, and perhaps some apple cider or hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps. What else could I make?

Kenny Williams

gosh Balta no, just backpacks and duffles.

Those that said players take the risk, it's on them . . . Should we say the same thing about mine workers? Agricultural employees? Firefighters? OSHA exists to make workplaces safer, why should we treat athletes differently than other workers?

I don't believe I do.

Eventually I need to get my ass in gear and start packing.

I had been searching for a cooking school that offered the class. There are a couple bed and breakfasts that offer cooking classes as well, but the time or type of class wasn't interesting. She has been talking about tamale making and I asked a chef I know if he knew of someone and he said he would do it. I'm hoping since it is someone we know that will make it better, not lame.

I have the chef of a local restaurant coming over to teach tamale making to my wife and I. It should be fun.

Christmas not X-mas

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 05:04 PM) I guess it's the researcher in me. I cannot support a conclusion unless there is evidence to support it. So saying I don't want my kid to play football based on this evidence to me is wrong, because there is no evidence. Right now I would say it opposes it because no research has found a causal relationship or even a correlation. However, as stated people can make and should make their own decisions about their own children. I guess part of this though is predicting where the research will lead. Take someone making a decision about smoking in the 1950s. There wasn't enough data. I believe we are at the same point with concussions and football. I don't see it leading to a conclusion that getting hit repeatedly in the head is a good thing.

Gee, when I see all the Christmas cards that my students gave me that call me their favorite teacher I think I don't assign enough homework and I am too easy of a grader.

I like how we're making adjustments as this is implimented. I know that some politicians were blasted when they first said that we'll see what pops up and fix it accordingly. But so far there have been prudent adjustments in timeline and rules that seem to be fixing some of the biggest problems. Americans have always been adaptable and innovators.