>> So it seems that the Powers That Be may have "underestimated" the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf by just a smidge. Luckily, I always have my Cynic's Trump Card at hand: the "Oh, well, we're probably all fucked anyway" card. One doesn't actually win anything by playing this card, although if this card is played often enough, one does eventually have the ability to shrug in a Gallic fashion, while smoking Gauloises.
>> One might remember that prior to the passage of the health care bill, I had some minor concerns about the lack of price controls and the vague language used about the new "restrictions" on the insurance industry. Funny story: the insurance industry is now lobbying to "ward off strict regulation of premiums and profits under the new health care law." They would like to define an "unreasonable" increase in premiums as anything "more than one trillion percent in one year." Also, since they are now required to spend a certain amount of their money on actually providing health care services to people, they would like to expand the definition of "health care service" to include "paying people to review and reject health care claims." But I guess this is still better than what we had, because...now they have to haggle out in the open?
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