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| Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | | 1:57 pm |
| | Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | | 10:12 pm |
| | Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | | 10:32 pm |
| | Monday, April 28th, 2008 | | 4:35 pm |
| | Friday, April 25th, 2008 | | 2:27 pm |
I'm not clicking on THAT In honor of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) james_nicoll, I'm starting an occasional feature where I stumble across a link and simply refuse to follow it. James is famous for supplying links to features that make one's eyes bleed, or simply cause you to bash your own head against the wall to just make the pain stop. For reasons too obscure to bother with, I typed the name Jenna Bush into the search engine for the Newark Examiner. The first link returned caused me to exclaim aloud I'm not following THAT link. For those braver than I, here it is. Note that the name of the link was supplied by the Examiner. Say no to Zombie Strippers Current Mood:  amused | | Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | | 6:09 pm |
Not understanding our health care system Last year ME went to an out of network doctor a couple of times for emergency service. Since he didn't take our insurance, he insisted on being paid in advance and told us to apply to our insurance agency to be reimbursed. Long story short we finally got around to doing so. My plan says that 70% of out of network fees are covered (after a deductible). What our plan actually did was reduce the doctor's charges to their 'negotiated rate' and then pay us 70% of that. To top it all off they said
1 - This fee is higher than the fee your provider agreed to accept as payment for this service. You do NOT have to pay this amount.
2 - YOUR CLAIM HAS BEEN PAID BASED ON THE PROVIDERS NEGOTIATED FEE ARRANGEMENT. PLEASE CONTACT THE PROVIDER FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF ANY AMOUNT YOU PAID IN EXCESS OF THE NEGOTIATED FEES LESS ANY APPLICABLE PATIENT RESPONSIBILITY AS SHOWN ON THIS EXPLANATION OF BENEFITS.
But the whole POINT of this was that as an out of network doctor he doesn't have a negotiated fee arrangement with them. How can Aetna tell him to charge less when he doesn't have a relationship with them? | | Friday, April 11th, 2008 | | 12:11 pm |
| | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | | 2:51 pm |
Fitna news of the day From Radio Netherlands, speaking of international reactions to the anti-Islamic film Fitna (warning link to graphic images):
The Dutch government has distanced itself from a strong condemnation issued by EU chair Slovenia. According to Slovenia, the film incites hatred, which in the Netherlands is an offence punishable by law. The Dutch government claims the film only aims to hurt people´s feelings.
| | Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | | 1:53 pm |
Trip to Solo Sunday March 23rd? I'm looking for people who'd like to meet at Solo restaurant this Sunday 3/23 to try the cooking of Top Chef winner Hung Huynh. They open Sunday at 5:00PM - perhaps beat the rush and make a reservation for 5:30? You can reply here or via email to larry at lennhoff dot com. | | Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | | 11:07 am |
| | Friday, March 7th, 2008 | | 11:23 am |
TV nobody but I watches Little Mosque on the Prarie ended on a cliffhanger: "Amar, J.J. asked me to marry him." "What did you say?" [roll credits] I sure hope that wasn't the season finale [peeks] Argh! Well, maybe just next week is a repeat ... I'm sure Aristotle would have had no trouble at all figuring out the conclusion to the cliffhanger. But despite the fact I think the answer is almost certain, I find I still want to actually see it happen. | | Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 | | 7:30 am |
| | Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 | | 11:26 pm |
Crossover Fic request After a chance comment by me, Malka Esther asked me to ask those of my friends who do fanfic to consider doing a crossover where Jesse XX of Kyle XY meets Cameron from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. No graphic violence, no sex please, we're prudes. | | Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | | 12:48 pm |
View in a twisted mirror - 1 I often follow stories about how other religious groups deal with the tension between their own religious culture and the surrounding secular values. I love watching Little Mosque on the Prarie on youtube, for example. The problems there often reflect either contemporary problems faced by Modern Orthodoxy or the problems we faced 50 years ago. The NY Times published an article yesterday about Muslim student groups on campus, and the tension between egalitarianism in the general society and the specific gender roles that are part of Muslim religious culture. Excerpt:
The debate boils down to whether upholding gender segregation is forcing something artificial and vaguely hypocritical in an American context.
“As American Islam gets its own identity, it is going to have to shed some of these notions that are distant from American culture,” said Rafia Zakaria, a student at Indiana University. “The tension is between what forms of tradition are essential and what forms are open to innovation.”
American law says men and women are equal, whereas Muslim religious texts say they “complement” each other, Ms. Zakaria said. “If the law says they are equal, it’s hard to see how in their spiritual lives they will accept a whole different identity.”
Read the full article here. | | Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | | 3:07 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 | | 5:58 pm |
| | Monday, January 28th, 2008 | | 4:35 pm |
Free association for Parshat Yitro
I miss Agnes DiPesto. | | Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 | | 4:41 pm |
Quote of the day once removed via cahwyguyAnswering a child's question about when her favorite TV show will be coming back:
“Instead, tell your child: ‘Remember when Grandnana died after months of getting skinnier and skinnier and calling everyone “Sebastian?” Like her, your favorite shows will never return, either. But, just as you will always have pleasant and fond memories of Grandnana, you’ll also have happy memories of going to movies and sitting for hours in front of the television, watching fresh and original quality scripted material. And you’ll cherish those memories.
“But, slowly but surely, those memories will dim. And by then, you’ll be an adult, and the economy will have collapsed, and the environment will have been devastated by the effects of global warming, and militarized viruses will have wiped out seven-eights of the Earth’s population, with feral gangs of rabid zombies feeding with an unprecedented bloodlust upon those unlucky few who still remain, and you won’t have time for nostalgic memories of Grandnana or quality original scripted material. So lighten up already.’”
Full reference here | | 6:25 am |
| | Monday, January 14th, 2008 | | 6:13 pm |
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