I once read that you need three things to be a successful Senator. First, you need gray hair, which gives the illusion of maturity. Second, you need glasses, which gives the illusion of wisdom. And third, you need hemorrhoids for that constant concerned look. Next time you see a gray-haired Senator adjusting his glasses, a…
My bucket list is limited to one real desire. I’d like to travel from the North end of Chile to the extreme Southern end, with maybe a side trip, perhaps a jaunt over the Andes to fish in a Patagonian river. “Why on earth would you want to do that?” my brother asked with a…
It has long since been determined that I must write. Unfortunately that does not always mean that I can come up with anything to write about. Sometimes, that is the hard part, particularly since I have half-heartedly foresworn politics. It may be a limitation I have set for myself that I cannot live up to.…
Tribal bonds run deep, sometimes deeper than we realize, and the core unit of any tribe is a family. Tribes, however, have their own way of forming, and the bonds can be as strong as covalent bonds that bind one chemical to another, or atomic bonds that keep electrons in orbits to contain protons and…
Understanding health insurance and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is as complicated as a Chinese typewriter. But, I admit it. I have benefited from the ACA in spite of my previous lamentations. I have written many times about the frustration with my health insurance, presenting fictitious dialogs with Plan Admin, the name I gave to…
I started out to write something, but it was tripe. I deleted it. I re-purposed myself to write something else, made a good start, then realized it too was tripe. I deleted it. An impassioned political thought later raced through my mind and I sat down at this computer and my fingers began to fly…
Even with spell chack, auto correct, and repeating persuals, it is nearly impermeable to edit one’s own writing corractly. I try and try, failing miserlyable. Ever one of my blog posts has been subjected to my own very close scrubtiny, yet ever single time I read one, I see numerous errors, omissions, subjective and verb…
“Formulary? I didn’t even know I had one,” you might say. “What is a formulary?” Your formulary is the list of approved medications for which your health insurance will pay full policy benefits. The amount of benefits varies under all policies, based on whether the drugs are generic or single-sourced under patent protection. Naturally, the…
Yesterday, the President signed an executive order that raises the minimum hourly wage on Federal contracts from $7.35 to $10.10. This makes for good press, but the order effectively does nothing and costs contractors nothing, and will bring benefits to no one but those hoping to get a warm and fuzzy feeling that somehow they…
That’s what the weather report says. Wintry mix….chance of ice accumulation of up to .3 inches tonight with another .3 inches tomorrow. It could be more, it could be less. It could be none, after all, the weather report is a forecast. One thing I am certain of is that it is raining and 35°F…
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