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Sorry, I didn't intend to imply that it was.

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That's some pretty ineffective blurring of his address, etc.

As are the costs of everything and anything you can imagine. Everything has to be paid for in the end -- even if it's single-payer health care that, in the end, isn't paid for by the government, but by taxes. The cost of bringing a new drug to market is in the billions. Who is going to pay for it? Before you go, check out the dire straits that most of their medical programs are in. They're increasing taxes, decreasing benefits and the quality of care is suffering. And to top it all off, they're having to allow millions of immigrants to help pay for the big pyramid scheme. It all comes

It sure smells good. My kitchen is a wreck, however. I'm the messiest cook in the world. I need to work more efficiently.

I sure can. My grandparents, too. My folks took a couple of years to pay off the births of 2 children within 11 months in the early 1960s. The bills were probably only a few hundred dollars, but that's a big deal when you're earning $8,000 per year.

You've done so much boiling and stirring and added so many of your own spices that it's become a completely different dish than the one I served.

I guess it depends how much of it I eat. I've never understood the concept of filling, especially when it comes to beer. I've never experienced any food or drink that filled me up more than a similar quantity of another food or drink. The stuff I made today used 4 or 5 kinds of peppers, beef, onions, garlic, stock and assorted spices. Hopefully it'll turn out well. EDIT: Oh yeah, I threw in 12 ounces of my homebrew (a British bitter) for the heck of it. Heading to Denver tomorrow for the Great American Beer Festival.

1971 was 42 years ago; comparing 2013's world to the 1950s isn't that much of a bigger stretch. Your injury wasn't diagnosed by a trip into a million-dollar MRI machine. Had you needed surgery, it wouldn't have been accomplished with the assistance of a robot that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Times are different. Things have changed.

All this talk of chili has encouraged me to make a pot and it's happily simmering away. No beans or tomatoes.

I said exactly the opposite: we currently have a shortage of doctors. No, it was not.

How in the world did you get that from what I wrote?

Doctors spend twice that much time and rack up close to half a million dollars in in expenses by the time it's all over. They also pay up to $200,000 per year for insurance. Considering the fact that they save lives every day, I think they're paid what they're worth.

It takes 11 or 12 years of college and residency to produce a medical doctor, so it can't happen all that soon.

Thanks! The guy in front of me on the shuttle bus kept yelling, "Something in my brain, bloodier than blood."

I would eat the you-know-what out of that pie. I actually bought all the ingredients for chili tonight, but I may not have a chance to cook it before I leave for the Great American Beer Festival in Denver the day after tomorrow.

I never saw that episode and I'm probably glad that I didn't. As I'm typing this, I'm drinking a pale ale that I brewed. Mmmm, mosaic hops. Where have you been all my life, Fruity Pebbles?

Is that a movie quote or something that I don't get?

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I loved that side of Alton Brown's "Good Eats" show.

Tomatoes aren't necessary for good chili con carne -- the official state food of Texas.

Beans are essentially tasteless filler; we have plenty of beef in Texas, so they're unnecessary. The same goes for spaghetti, you crazy Cincinnatians. Now when do we start debating the inclusion of tomatoes? (Nay!)

It's called chili con carne, not chili con carne y frijoles.

From the International Chili Society's rules and regulations:

Mostly, i think they see it as an unwelcome intrusion and hassle that will make their businesses more difficult and expensive to run. Government red tape is never any fun. There's also the fact that we have a shortage of physicians and (potentially) adding tens of millions of new patients will make things even worse.

I didn't even know that beans were allowed in chili contests.