I think in your first article about Tia, it was mentioned they had a “trained psychic” on board. Not an untrained psychic, mind you, but a trained one. Read more

My first reaction when I first heard about it was“Your plan is....to use a business model designed to encourage people to sign up for recurring billing and forget/never use the service but then market it to people who specifically want high touch individualized medical care and then only hire one doctor?” Read more

I live in Omaha. They run these radio commercials with Joe Ricketts touting all these foods that Omaha-area companies have made to support this religious retreat center that he felt compelled to build on the Platte River. I’m glad he’s running them, so I know what not to buy in stores.
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I’m sorry, but until you recognize, publicly, that ogres were eating children for YEARS before witches and warlocks ever did, I can’t view this as anything other than cultural appropriation. Read more

I’m not ready to take “funny” lessons from somebody writing a humorous-less 4 paragraph confused rant on a joke article. Read more

So the ins. companies can get that “discoooooouuuuunnnt”.

*whispers* they’re just making up numbers and then billing for themmmm Read more

Thanks for publishing these emails. As they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant, and it also prevent Ricketts. Read more

Something worth noting from a public facebook post by a man who campaigned for her when he was younger:

“And I know I’m burying the lede here, but Cindy once told me that her daughter went to private school because her husband didn’t want her to go to school with black students. It’s not simply an educated guess; it… Read more

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No shit, I got a health insurance recorded robocall I assumed was a scam today. Weird to read this like an hour after. Read more

Maybe a single payer system would be a good way to help stymie health insurance scams like these, heck, might help with some other things too. Read more

And Dorfman will get some fines and cushy 5 year prison sentence and be out with another grift already planned. There people never stop because the incentive isn’t there. Why give up the chance to live for years in luxury just for the possibility of a few in, as famously said in Office Space, “a minimum security… Read more

Appropriate given that, 74 years ago today, a good number of chaps ran briskly onto a beach, yelled something along the lines of “Nazis need no bathing fun!” and then shot them in the face.
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I don’t always get abortions, but when I do I always go to my local dental center. Read more

Are you saying the pictures I take of my penis are actually composites of the penises a computer thinks I would enjoy Read more

David Uberti is my boyfriend and let me take this moment to tell all you lovely readers that he has been out of town every. single. time. I’ve moved during our relationship (including into the apartment we now share). Read more

I terminated a pregancy in early 2010 in large part because my insurance specifically excluded pregnancy and maternity. I was also in my late 40s, with a lovely partner who never wanted kids. But knowing that having that baby, especially as a high-risk older mother would bankrupt me, was a HUGE factor. When the ACA… Read more

I have not commented in more than an year, probably. I am, more than probably, in the grays. But I just cannot help myself when it comes to reproductive rights: I grew up in a former communist country where abortion was illegal (for population control purposes) until the regime fell. I know, from my mother and from my… Read more