Charlie. Ohio State grad. Midwesterner living in Mid-Atlantic.
Cut the cord four years ago but still watch my stories via Hulu (for now, anyway), YouTube and ESPN3. I don't have that many stories left. "Modern Family" is good, of course. A show written by Joss Whedon and featuring only Dianna Agron and Kristen Bell would be nice too. But then who would he kill off? Oh, I jest, Joss, I jest. I'm just joshing, Joss...
Bought a case of freaking 60-watt bulbs right before falling in love with CFLs. Still have 38. Museum possible.
I loathe unjustified war; the use of Tasers; marriage inequality; eggs; creamy things; Cadbury eggs for obvious reasons; yes, I know they're not really eggs; mayo more than Bruce Willis in "The Whole Nine Yards"; leaf blowers; incompetence; incompetent people chasing one or two leaves with a leaf blower; people whose music can be heard outside their car; people who swing their arms out as they walk; people who swing their keys on chains or shoelaces; in general, people who have no concept of personal space or limit on their own; people who clearly can't shop and talk on the phone at the same time but attempt it anyway; and video autoplay. Oh, how I hate video autoplay...
I read Supreme Court arguments and opinions.
I post "Big Bang"...
"The Shawshank Redemption" is the only movie I've ever rated a 10. Yes, I'm one of those people, but I also love football; mustard; Jewel; true crime; fictional crime; mica lamps; anything made by Fiskars (scissors, pruners, shovels, rakes, the works); "Love Actually"; people who make me laugh; and Diet Dew (Sunkist will do in a pinch because it really does contain caffeine)...
The drink thing also has to do with the fact(s) that I will partake of maybe 3 percent of the alcoholic beverages available in this country, gave up cola, do not like to drink my calories and do not drink anything hot ... I have had coffee three times in my life...
Vanilla-scented candles remind me of the ocean ... I do not know why...
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Proud parents, and kids getting ready to branch out, to wing it, to…
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Effect of morning light through prisms of upstairs window
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So, the LA Times has this story about…
….how a porn video was shot on the field at the Coliseum in 2001…
In 2001…
Including the phrase, “The Times has learned“…
2001…
Anyway, favorite part:
The plot of the movie, to the extent that it has one, revolves around a football team and a cheerleader.
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"The first of these objects as it respects the Executive, was peculiarly embarrassing. On the question whether it should consist of a single person, or a plurality of coordinate members, on the mode of appointment, on the duration in office, on the degree of power, on the re-eligibility, tedious and reiterated discussions took place. The plurality of co-ordinate members had finally but few advocates. Governour Randolph was at the head of them. The modes of appointment proposed were various, as by the people at large—by electors chosen by the people—by the Executives of the States—by the Congress, some preferring a joint ballot of the two Houses—some a separate concurrent ballot allowing to each a negative on the other house—some a nomination of several candidates by one House, out of whom a choice should be made by the other."
— James Madison, to Thomas Jefferson, Oct. 24, 1787, on who should run the executive branch and how to pick said person/people
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Pay up and die, sucker.
death and fine
They went to all this brilliant flipside trouble for something not even used by the public…
Maybe they were afraid of somebody at the Fed dropping one and not noticing…
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From the archives: A staff member works on a model of the Bison and Pronghorn Diorama (located in the Hall of North American Mammals), February 1939
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What if bison were really that size? Also, I couldn’t do that job because I would be constantly repositioning the bison. No, that’s not right. A little to the left. No. What about … Oh, great, now they look like a football team…
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This story needs to be read…
The difference in price can be stunning. Los Alamitos Medical Center, for instance, lists a CT scan of the abdomen on a state website for $4,423. Blue Shield says its negotiated rate at the hospital is about $2,400.
When The Times called for a cash price, the hospital said it was $250.
Those cash prices are meant for uninsured people, while insurance companies just pass along the outrageous rates charged by hospitals…
Insurance companies need health care to be expensive, because without that, why would people need insurance…
Also, there is no way on Earth that a CT scan should cost four figures … those machines are simply gold mines for the industry, and doctors order them like there’s no risk whatsoever…
I’ve had one abdomen CT and that was enough for me unless absolutely necessary, not just because ooooo look at all the stuff we can see not really important or helpful but ooooo look…
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