My friend’s health-care horror story...

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 12:25 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 00:25

...started with Ethel’s (names have been changed) husband’s being laid off from (insert name of large computer firm here—I think she’d prefer this remain anonymous) in the early 2000s. They sold their house and made pretty good money from it, enough to live on for a couple of years if they lowered their expenses, and moved in with parents. Lamar never got over losing his job, had a stroke three years later, spent four days in the ER hooked up to every machine there is, until a series of MRIs proved he had suffered catastrophic brain damage that was only getting worse with time, and they decided to let him go.

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Saturday August 08, 2009 · 12:18 PM PDT

2009/08/08 · 12:18

We did pretty well today. The screamers were there, too, but not enough of them to drown out the conversation.

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Friday August 07, 2009 · 4:36 PM PDT

2009/08/07 · 16:36

In light of the diary about teabaggers being advised to bring guns with them, I am very nervous posting this... this was in my e-mail this afternoon. I have no inside scoop into Congressman Doggett's plans, I'm just on a local liberal's e-mail list, but here it is:

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 6:07 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 06:07

Ok pootie-lovers, I have $100 here for the Humane Society of the United States if the Obamas adopt their new puppy from a shelter--any shelter.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 4:28 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 16:28

Oh lordy. I just got into a conversation about economics with a boob in a bar in Austin, Texas.

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Sunday March 30, 2008 · 8:24 PM PDT

2008/03/30 · 20:24

There's news on the intelligent design front. Ben Stein has written and narrates Expelled, a "documentary" coming out mid-April (maybe--it's been postponed before) about academics who propound ID and are expelled (get it?) from universities because academia is biased in favor of evolution and natural selection (like that’s a bad thing).

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Sunday October 29, 2006 · 3:50 PM PST

2006/10/29 · 15:50

Barak Obama was keynote speaker Saturday morning (didn't see him except as he walked to the book-signing tent--getting a big hand from the people in line along the way).
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old friend gone bad

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 10:01 PM PDT

2006/09/10 · 22:01

Ever reconnect with an old friend and realize all that time you were out of touch you'd become reeeally different? Here's what I got tonight from someone I knew 20 years ago and have recently begun e-mailing:

I've cut up the letter to the editor--don't want to screw with copyright--but it's just shit; you'll get the idea. But my reply at the end isn't bad. I think my old friend and I will be crossing each other off our Christmas-card lists:
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take a break

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Thursday March 02, 2006 · 5:25 AM PST

2006/03/02 · 05:25

from the regular assholes and have a look at some new ones:

police intimidation
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Letter from Lamar (Smith)

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Friday January 13, 2006 · 2:58 PM PST

2006/01/13 · 14:58

Answers to my outraged letters from my representatives usually interest a few people--other Texans represented by these--ahem--characters, anyway. So here's another one from Lamar Smith hot off the e-mail: Read More

Exactly Nothing

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Tuesday January 10, 2006 · 9:23 AM PST

2006/01/10 · 09:23

So I'm driving to the vet with my sick doggie listening to the Alito hearings on NPR, and the committee takes a 15-minute break at about 11:06 a.m. EST, and the NPR announcer comes on and asks Nina Totenberg what she thinks about what Alito has said, and she says the equivalent of "He's not saying much." Then he asks a reporter for the L.A. Times what he thinks about what Alito has said, and the reporter agrees with Nina. Then the announcer turns to Diane Feinstein and says, "What do you think Senator Feinstein?", and she says,

1)    Well, it's a beginning.
2)    It's going to take more time.
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Dancing with Hutchison

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Thursday January 05, 2006 · 3:38 PM PST

2006/01/05 · 15:38

Remember last October when Kay Bailey Hutchison (my senator)said on Meet the Press that she hopes any indictments coming out of Fitzgerald's office aren't based on "some perjury technicality"?

SEN. HUTCHISON [to Tim Russert]: ...I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality...

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