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Got to love Insurance Companies. Such great examples of decency.
Such fuel for cynicism and sarcasm.  The Reward for Donating a Kidney: No Insurance
It is unclear how often kidney donors have trouble obtaining insurance, but advocates say the fear of being uninsurable may be a powerful deterrent to donation.
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I'm trying to remember how old I was, when I discovered that I was "a real suspicious guy."
I was 18. It was the summer of 1968, in Chicago, just before the Democratic Convention. It was late evening. My dad owned a television repair business on 63rd Street.
When we closed up shop, we put the televisions we were working on in the vault and carried the repaired sets to the van out front, so we could make deliveries on the way home. That's where the trouble started.
I thought this would be straightened out immediately. The business name was "C. Ingram's Radio and Television." The Van was registered in his name, Case closed. |
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Way too Politi to handle the facts, Politi_fact_
 Politifact, you're fired
Video on msnbc.com: Rachel Maddow reviews yet another instance of Politifact not living up to its name; this time by declaring two factual statements made by President Obama only "mostly true."
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*"Back in 1994, while plotting his takeover of the House, Gingrich circulated a memo on how to use words as a weapon. It was called "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control." Republicans were advised to use certain words in describing opponents — sick, pathetic, lie, decay, failure, destroy. That was the year, of course, when Gingrich showed there was no floor to his descent into a dignity-free zone, equating Democratic Party values with the drowning of two young children by their mother, Susan Smith, in South Carolina.
Today, if you listen carefully to any Gingrich takedown, you'll usually hear words from the control memo. He even used them, as former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams wrote in National Review Online this week, in going after President Reagan, calling him "pathetically incompetent," as Abrams reported. And he compared Reagan's meeting with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.""*  Deconstructing a Demagogue
Over four decades, Newt Gingrich has perfected the politics of personal destruction.
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Image by Getty Images via @daylifePeople are foreclosed. People and their businesses go bankrupt. People are employed and unemployed. People and their stories are behind those numbers. People also have a big political decision to make that's driven by the reality behind the numbers.
"It’s always seemed to me that a “reasonable expectation of privacy” is little more than an expectation that at least five justices are prepared to recognize as reasonable with respect to their own privacy."Which explains far too many high court decisions. The justices have become more and more isolated from the average citizens experiences, so more and more decisions make no sense,
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When I was 18 I bought a used Bolex 16mm camera (no sound) from Calumet Camera in Chicago, got permission to audit a documentary film course at Northwestern University and waited for the Democratic Convention to arrive. My uncle Owen was a delegate from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party and there was going to be a floor fight over which delegates from Mississippi got seated.
I never imagined that professional film motion picture cameras would go out of production. Of course, I never imagined the police rioting either, or the national guard preventing people from the South and West sides getting anywhere near the convention. I resented the hell out of that at the time, but they probably deserve all the credit for the fact that I got through that week with an unfractured skull.  After 123 Years, Motion Picture Film Cameras Go Out of Production
Film is beautiful. It's going to be around for years to come. Plenty of feature films and TV shows are still being shot on film, and used film cameras will remain a viable rental market for a long tim...
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I thought the motto was "Don't be evil." Apparently, individual journalists need not apply.
 Adventures in self-publishing: Rejected from Google News!
Google, the search company that started as two guys at Stanford, openly discriminates against entrepreneurs. At least for its Google News product.Not only i
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| "A study of daily news coverage from more than 11,500 media outlets doesn't support claims that the media favors President Barack Obama. Reports reflecting negatively on Obama have outweighed positive ones 4 to 1; negative coverage of Obama dominated even during the week that Osama bin Laden was killed. Politico's Keach Hagey notes that "the top four most favorably covered candidates … were all tea party favorites" — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and businessman Herman Cain." The same moneyed interests that find Obama threatening, own the media and although it's hard to determine what's covered, they have a powerful say in the emphasis and interpretation of that coverage. Liberal media is somewhere between illusion and delusion. The middle class doesn't own media outlets. The working class absolutely doesn't. |
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A painting isn't a TV that doesn't work. A magazine isn't a broken iPad. Different media work differently. New tends to be good. New-ism, not so good. Think different. Think deeply. Above all, think it through.
 Reality check: Viral iPad video has cute baby, faulty premise | Poynter.
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If you're going in the wrong direction, turn around. That's one word in Latin, "Repent!" Before you can do that, you have to recognize, and admit, 1.) that you've made a mistake and 2.) that there's something that you, can do about it, need to do about it and 3.) even if there's blame to spread around, nothing's going to get better until you,personally do something about it.
 Before Succeeding, You Have To Fully Confront Failure. But How? | Co. Design
Before Succeeding, You Have To Fully Confront Failure. But How? We're wired not to fix our own worst mistakes: Our brains often convince us that failure isn't our fault or simply an aberration...
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"In America, banks rob people because that is where the money is!"
 Jokes and Their Relation to Crisis
People say that a crisis is not a laughing matter. But what if crisis is precisely what humor is about?
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"Still, there is the problem of technological overkill. When you add a computer to something, you are also adding the kinds of problems computers have. One day I approached the Numi only to discover that its remote had frozen. After consulting the 43-page user manual, I realized that it had come to this: *I had to reboot the toilet.*"  Kohler's Numi Is Everything One Wants in a Toilet, and a Lot More
Kohler's Numi toilet comes with a heated seat, music, a lid that automatically raises and lowers, a remote control and more, all for $6,400.
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If you too are the spouse of an internationally known author, there is customer service at Google.
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As email, documents, and almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives moves onto the "cloud"—remote servers we rely on to store, guard, and make available all of our data whenever and fr...
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