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  1. I’m currently planning a moonface-soaking product. I had to stop from using the word moon-faced in something I wrote last night – was trying to dscribe someone with mouth agape.

    I was just explaining Mandarin vs. Cantonese to a 10 year old girl and she said, “I noticed the color of your eyes.” When she left she pointed at me and said, “I like your eyes.”

  2. benson, forgot to tell you in the NYT RE SUnday, was an interview with a big coop/condo law firm, Wolff Halderstein (sp). They are doing big business suing Boymelgreen for construction defects. No other developer mentioned.

  3. ringo,

    here’s a groundbreaking and controversial idea to fix the cost of medicine and its simplicity is what makes it so right:

    CASH.

    Leave the Medicaid and Medicare safety nets.

    Exclude doctors treating Medicaid and Medicare from malpractice or simply raise the standard to reckless endangerment.

    For the rest of the population, let the primary care doctors move to a reasonable CASH only basis.
    Everyone will be happier. Doctors will have a good day every day with cash in hand.
    There will be billions saved in processing insurance fees alone.

    Patient’s will feel good getting treatment without a problem where they want to be seen.

    Everyone will carry a low premium/moderate deductable major medical plan for the worst case scenario.

    Everyone can stop complaining and get back to work with the
    healthcare problem finally solved.

    Next.

  4. “I wonder if anyone boarding a plane and seeing Muslims would think to themselves “Oh good, Muslims on board.””

    I wonder if anyone boarding a plane and seeing > would think to themselves “Oh good, > on board”.

  5. i think pickling shit and bed bug sniffing dog’s sail has shipped. jello with saffron is a great idea tho!! you know all those moonfaces grew up eating that crap. but you know for a fact they would pay 10 dollars for a cube of it if someone was selling it. there’s basically like NO overhead!

    *rob*

  6. “well if COBRA is a gazillion dollars – getting private insurance is 5 gazillion dollars – so it’s a good deal, comparatively!!”

    Damn straight. When I was paying for my daughter’s HI via COBRA, it was something like $350/month, pre-tax. When the COBRA ran out and I had to buy an individual policy for her, it was $900/month, post-tax. About 4 months ago, it went up to $1200/month.

    Come November 6th, I am going to receive one nice pay raise: her employee benefits kick in.

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