Surrexit.

That church is my voting precinct in Charlotte, it’s a lovely, very large building, only two storeys with connected sections stretching across some three acres.

Providence Baptist Church of Charlotte, NC.

Pam? Do you know that Apple, Inc. has a very large data center in Maiden, NC? Oy, the pressure?

Here’s a potentially complicating news item about IBM, Apple’s iPhone Siri, and stuff.

Google Apple + Maiden also for more stuff.

I can’t imagine what’s condemned you to prefer “watching a bunch of lazy people whine” to not watching, but maybe you’re just lucky that way.

Simpson doesn’t try to make sense, but that’s a separate issue.

No one has proposed or suggested cutting benefits to current SS beneficiaries.

Well, you realize they didn’t give a hoot about drug testing until they had a test for cannabis.

Now that Monsanto can own patents for organisms, pot won’t be legal until Monsanto owns the seed banks.

I don’t see what ideals like compassion or sympathy have to do with simple electoral politics. The Bush tax cuts bought many millions of votes for Republicans from socially liberal and progressive voters who like their money very much, thank you. The goal post shifting is intended to subtract from the Republican vote tallies and add to the Democratic tallies within that very large income group between 250K and 1mil, a group that always votes for self-evident, self-interested reasons.

I’d rather it was Healthcare for all, the medical part you can choose and shop around for.

“Judge not, lest ye be Clarence Thomas”

Very interesting Gallup snapshot of our society’s beliefs about conduct.

Avoid dairy, drink tons of water (the best expectorant), and reject no sympathy.

A sauna often or a steam room would do double duty: completely mask the symptoms for comfort and perspire loads of toxins.

Are you really this dense? eCAHNomics @22 didn’t mean P.T. Barnum. To you I suppose Joseph P. Kennedy’s sperm frenzy well before he went to the Court of St. james was for anecdotal posterity. The fruits of my own research and study: Vito always thought Sonny would become the Don, not Michael for whom he wanted a Senator Corleone. Whence the marionette strings of the poster.

Disk or disc?
Analogue or analog?
Preventive or preventative?
Nonplussed or nonplussed?

(And if you don’t know, ‘HD radio’ means ‘hybrid digital radio’.)

When Wordperfect and MS word included Flesch-Kincaid & Gunner Fog readability analysis, I ran some of my stuff through them, and lo, my course materials including lectures avg’d around 10th grade, and behold, my memos and my committee writing were at 13th-14th grade levels.

Since you put it that way, Orwell’s third point covers “omit adverbs”.

Do you have an opinion regarding Jon’s “gotten” in his headline? (I think it’s a tough call, probably ‘got’ belongs there instead, while the meaning would better be conveyed by ‘become’).

Telling that to Jon is like telling him never to breathe.

From George Orwell’s “Politics And The English Language”:

(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Using Flesch-Kincaid, Lincoln’s speech figures at about 8th-grade level.

Like disabled truck driver Leroy says in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shlioh”: “Nobody knows anything”.

American health care is so expensive simply because we pay way more for the same drugs, procedures and tests than any other country.

We simply are taxed a lot less and simply pay a lot less for energy, especially for gasoline.

The societies with single-payer and all-payer pay out a lot more in taxes (income and consumer-use).

A significant part of the US medical costs include tests and procedures that are seldom prescribed in other societies simply because private insurance will cover them.

Resistance Is Futile

Sometimes Vito Corleone paraphrases Emma Goldman, sometimes Chief Joseph.

(“One must imagine Sisyphus happy” — Albert Camus)

‘Braking’ news: Ricketts “won’t air Obama-Wright campaign ads”.