More ruminations, rambles, rants and raves from the downhill side of the mountain.
Just so you know exactly where I stand vis-a-vis today's polarized politics, let me recommend this organization to you.
And I also recommend my gentle employer to you as well. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network, which seemed to have stopped working, is back in operation, so the links and banners are working again.
Now, go buy some books.
And I also recommend my gentle employer to you as well. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network, which seemed to have stopped working, is back in operation, so the links and banners are working again.
Now, go buy some books.
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Coffee Grounds
Traveling in Style
Slacktivist Recommended with a bullet!
Hoofin To You: Bridgewater, NJ politics
Inadmissible Evidence
Big Black Van
Overflow
In Spite of Years of Silence
Metamorphosism (Mig's new blog)
Real Live Preacher
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Alas, A Blog
A Fistful of Euros
BuzzMachine
Eschaton
Pedantry
The Poor Man
Barefoot and Naked
Boing Boing
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Fafglob
The Road to Surfdom
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Fox Den: Creative (i.e. Fiction)Writing
A Pilgrim's Progress
Business/Economics/Future Studies and other Social Sciences
Ian's Knowledge Modelling Weblog
Future Scan: Future Studies Department University of Houston at Clear Lake
PLSJ (aka Anne, the Anthropologist)
link
International
Lost in Transit
link
New Jersey New York Pennsylvania and Delaware
Coffee Grounds
Traveling in Style
Slacktivist Recommended with a bullet!
Hoofin To You: Bridgewater, NJ politics
Inadmissible Evidence
Personal/General
Big Black Van
Overflow
In Spite of Years of Silence
Metamorphosism (Mig's new blog)
Real Live Preacher
Blogs with Attitude
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Alas, A Blog
A Fistful of Euros
BuzzMachine
Eschaton
Pedantry
The Poor Man
Barefoot and Naked
Boing Boing
Craigblog
Fafglob
The Road to Surfdom
link
E-Mail Me
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And finally, here are a few books I might recommend for your edification and amazement.
What's the Matter with Kansas?
Thursday, December 19, 2002
The headline caught my eye; "Study: One-night marternity stays just as safe". Seems that the health insurance industry feels that women need only one night in the hospital before going home to face the rigors of life with a newborn baby. What they are studiously ignoring is that the extra time in the hospital is not for the baby's benefit; it's for the mother. Most women these days do not have the luxury of having extended family available to help out with the care of both baby and household. Personally, I think if the Health Insurers are successful in getting new mothers booted out in 24 hours, they should be forced to pay for at least 10 days of an in home aide (at probably $125/day) to ease the transition.
Once upon a time, most insurance companies were of the mutual variety which meant that they were operated for the benefit of the insured. Nowadays, most insurance companies are "for profit" meaning that the insured exists more as a "profit center" than as the raison d'etre for the firm. The goal of the insurance company in the modern era is to get as much money as possible from each client while paying out as little as possible in benefits to all clients.
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