Yeah. Glad I read this 'cause occasionally I try to be efficient and not waste time with pleasantries when I'm suggesting/complaining. Shouldn't do that when there's a person on the other end. Thanks for the reminder.
Dear Grad School Admissions Dean, Why do I want to go to State University to pursue my further education? Well, to be honest, you're my backup school. I'd rather get a degree from an Ivy League but, to be honest again, my GRE scores aren't that great. So I'm hoping you're having a crappy admissions year and won't mind taking me. Sincerely,
Larry, I got a logical question for you: You say that insurance companies "provide bounties to hospitals and [sic] doctors to reduce costs (to them) by cutting corners" and that this can be efficient but dangerous. I'm not trying to misquote you--this should be accurate. If this were true, and I don't see any evidence yet, then insurance companies would be doing themselves a disservice to promote cutting corners if, in effect, there are dange
"Help is on the Way!" How? You still haven't said how you propose fixing this. I wanna know. (by the way, why won't Mozilla let me use the quote feature? I had to login to Internet Explorer to do it, though I should know the html code by now...)
Larry Kuperman said: "HMO's and other insurers provide bounties to hospitals nad doctors to reduce costs (to them) by cutting corners." Curious. What kinds of things are you talking about?
Addendum: Someday I'm going to get a bumper sticker that says "Doctors = humans"
I agree with you in theory (censorship = bad), except the thing is, I don't really want to hear all that crap on TV. I don't want to watch violence, either, but somehow that's easier to screen. You can be watching what seems like just a drama and then a bunch of swear words spill out. Would seem to make more sense to not try to air those movies. But it's all about the money--er, ratings, I mean.... This reminds me of something the directors o
So, um, how do you propose fixing this? 'Cause it's a no-brainer to say there are problems, no arguments there.
Disorder | Rating Paranoid: Moderate Schizoid: Moderate Schizotypal: High Antisocial: Moderate Borderline: Moderate Histrionic: Moderate Narcissistic: Very High Avoidant: Very High Dependent: Low Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate Wow, for once a test I didn't want to rate highly on. Narcissitic is inaccurate, I think; avoidant is true, as is obsessive-compulsive. I think the higher results are beca
Great thread! Here are my thoughts on some of your choices: Clive Owen: Also my choice, though I wonder if he's got the suave thing down. Hard to see him actually romancing a woman. Ioan Gruffudd: Well, at least he looks British.... How do you pronounce "Ioan"? "Eye-oh-ahn"? I agree with you--don't see the predator intensity. Colin FIrth: . Colin Firth was great i
Just like to note that this is a really old discussion and I don't think those ads are running anymore ('least I haven't seen any).
CS Guy: yeah, I see your point, but I hope you realize that that bit is included for levity....
"Except Kerry at least is a real politician. " You say that as if it were a good thing.....
"kerry gives us a chance and more diversity rather than old rich white republicans" Right. Kerry, a career politician, courting the votes of the NAACP (avowed Bush haters), from Mass. from a "prominent" (read blue-blooded) family, gies us a chance with more diversity. I think that's a bunch of crap. I think Moore is full of crap, too, but clever crap.
What I want to know is if the quiz keeps up with Kerry's views. Should we refresh the page as we take it, just to make sure it's up-to-date?
Husband and I have always been good friends with another married couple, since about our freshman year in college. We've been in each other's weddings and generally been on the same side in college and job politics. We all enjoyed Bush-bashing up until it became obvious that Kerry was the democratic choice, and particularly when Kerry announced that Edwards was his ru
I should've read the link first. Thanks for it.
I have another one for Edwards: How does suing doctors and winning huge amounts of damages, ergo raising health care costs even more, heal anyone?
Uuuuuuuuugh. I was just in Hawaii for my honeymoon, and granted it's one of the 50, but I still felt like a tourist. I *hate* that feeling. I daresay, however, that we were not as stupid as the ones you encountered. Probably my worst faux pas was mispronouncing "river" in French so that it said "toilet" (I KNEW the guy was pointing in the wrong direction, but couldn't figure out why). No wonder the French hate us. <img src="../images/smiles/sm
Funny you should write this. My mom was reading over our wedding programs, on which we had a few lines from our favorite poems. She sat down next to me and said, "Okay, explain this to me. It doesn't rhyme, so how is it poetry?" I told her about internal rhyme and the need to read it aloud and of looking at each line to see if itself was a miniature poem, but she still didn't get it. Finally, I told her to read poems as if they're bea
It's past midnight so can now say am getting married today. V. surreal. Had the rehearsal and the dinner--which were fine. V. v. surreal. Just like a dinner with best friends. (Should have those at other times, too, besides weddings and funerals.) Tried calling Fiance, as have yet to finish writing vows. However, Fiance is out with friends at bar, ev
Given the shiftiness of Kerry's position (he has one? which one?), and Bush's inclination to war, oil, and disinclination toward the environment, and Nader's just overall weirdness, I want good ol' Dean back. He was different. He was out there, loud, new, fresh; not the old school, toeing the party line like Kerry and Bush, saying what people want to hear. I
I think I agree with many of your perceptions (the justification for invading Iraq would be an exception). I don't know what it is about Clinton that makes him so forgiveable--the guy was slimy. I would never shake his hand. As for the rebuilding of Iraq, it seems that the media, in its constant effort to deliver "news," delivers a message that says something like, "...Day 279: Nothing new; Day 280: Nothing new..." and Americans construe that
I don't know what this SUV thing is...is there a link?
conservatives obsessed with sex, sexually frustrated, etc.
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