So I came home to a letter saying that my doctor's office with Cedars is no longer working with my insurance company. Blue Shield isn't paying enough to cover their costs, so they've dropped them. Fabulous.

Nurse Dingbat aside, the care we've gotten at Cedars has been pretty good. Still, if they're not working with our insurance any more, ( Read more... )

I was going to write this back at the person at work that forwarded it to me, but it turned into a rant of sorts. *sigh* At least this was based on a real article and I didn't have to whip out the page on snopes.com to disprove it.

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Freak posted this link on his Facebook, but I wanted to elaborate a little bit. I read Sandra Tsing-Loh's piece in the Atlantic about the demise of marriage a while ago. I was annoyed, but couldn't really put my finger on it. Sort of a low-level irked. Then found this article today that's basically a rebuttal. It's certainly funnier than Loh ( Read more... )

I went down to the OC to have lunch with the grandparents.. which was lovely, but afterward, we took a field trip to a resort that had just opened in Newport Beach. Oh, the rant is ON. I'm not trying to be snarky and cooler-than-thou, but dude. This place is over the top ridiculous. It's kind of like Italy, if Italy had the "interesting" sucked ( Read more... )

From some wingnut:
"Syndicated talk radio host, Glen Beck will be attending what appears to be the most symbolic tea party yet; Glen Beck will be among those attending the San Antonio tea party at the Alamo ( Read more... )

This rant is a long time coming. You've probably heard about the "Tea Party" protests scheduled for tomorrow. The message seems to be: Government spending sucks! We'll chuck tea at people and be patriots like the Boston Tea Party!


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Yes, I actually sent this to the editor.  >:)

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RE:  Grown-up lunches that pack a punch

Was that a three page article about how to pack a sack lunch?  Seriously?  With helpful nuggets of information like, "Pack smart so that the contents of your lunch don't get squashed or leak"?  You're kidding me, right?

Most grownups I know ( Read more... )

Ok. All you people whinging about Proposition 8, if I get this right, half the electorate in California are evil, retarded, hicks who should die in a fire, go back to Saudi Arabia, and just get the hell off my Livejournal WHHHRRRRRRRRGGGBL....

Stop. Just.. STOP IT.Think for a minute ( Read more... )

Dear friends ( Read more... )

Let me preface this rant with a quick aside: My Mom was an admissions counselor at UCI, and had to make these exact decisions about which classes counted, and which ones didn't. Ultimately, this decided who got into a prestigious university, and who had to slog through community colleges taking remedial courses. Hi, Mom!
Judge says UC can deny ( Read more... )