Check again when the Obamacare exchanges are available. New York is running their own, but the federally-run state exchanges are slated to be up in October. In California and Oregon, where the prices have been released, 30-year-old non-smokers can expect to pay ~$220-270/month for fairly decent coverage.

Not to get political, but Obamacare might be a tremendous boon to entrepreneurs/the self-employeed/contractors.

my feels! i can't

That little probe has been put through a lot. I guess it would be okay to let it come home a little early. Maybe it can help prepare a party for its rover friends when they make it back! :)

Steve Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer that can actually be cured in some cases, according to this interview and other sources. His doctors recommended a radical surgery to prevent it from spreading, but he delayed surgery for nine months because of his belief in non-scientific alternatives. It is unclear if this delay made a difference, but it's possible that he could have been full-blown cured had he opted for surgery right away.

Wow! Congrats!

Myth!

What does it feel like to kill a man?

Everything I've seen says that natural gas is two to three times cleaner than coal. That's not "marginally" cleaner; it's a significant improvement, and it is clearly better for the environment than sticking with coal.

And the US isn't forcing Asian countries to buy coal. They need energy -- China's economy is growing by 10% every year. They've determined that coal is the best choice for now, and this is somehow the US's fault?

I'm not quite sure what you're calling bullshit about. Not everything the US does is necessarily bad.

China is using more coal. Let's blame America, not the annual movement of tens of millions of people from poverty to the middle class.

Sheesh.

Because I know I'm not the only one who is bothered by this: )

I know, right? Fucking teachers. Bunch of leaches. And don't even get me started on sanitation works, law enforcement agents, paramedics and firefighters. Assholes. The whole lot of em.

Combined with GrooveIP / Talkatone / SipDroid combined with Google Voice for wifi calling, it's clearly the best deal available.

Google is hard :(

He's innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law. That doesn't mean I have to or necessarily should assume he's innocent. Sorry, but fleeing to the border raises my eyebrows. On the other hand, he seems to be paranoid, so there's a chance that he fled even though he is innocent. But I don't have to presume innocence when evaluating the situation because I'm not acting as a juror.

Complete, unmitigated, 100% bullshit.

Most men I know wouldn't do that. If all the men you know would, you need to spend your time with a different group. This reeks of the "any man would rape a woman if he could get away with it" nonsense that floats around.