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No, more like one-stop shopping for an illustration of the dangers of Quaaludes, excessive chest hair and EST.

OK. What if Orleans had played Fenway in 1979?

Adding to the list of bad shit that has happened/will be happening at Citi Field, is a Dave Matthews Band concert. At this rate, I'm going to start rooting for the fucking Yankees.

Damn - thought he'd croaked and this was another scoop for VC News.

I really don't have a preference vis-a-vis New Orleans and Minnesota, but I am glad the Saints won so I don't have to hear "BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE" for the next two freekin' weeks. Jesus. They should just have a designated time each year where a selected ESPN on-air personality just sucks him off during SportsCenter so we can be done with it. I nominate Chris Berman to go first.

Are you high? Have you ever BEEN to Europe? They have made some real improvements since 1945!

London show is fantastic - love the false start to Impossible Germany and the "These ARE the hits!" parts. Good job, Wilco, for coming up with this.

If she spent a couple of years at the Chelsea Hotel, MAYBE. I am not really in favor of a nanny state either, but I don't want it to be the enabling corporate rape state. Gotta be a happy medium in there somewhere.

This. Again, all we are proving by standing on some sort of American exceptionalism in health care is proving that we are just exceptionally stupid.

Hey, it worked for the tobacco industry and the mortgage industry, to name a few. And when they do so, there will be plenty of free-market apologists to try to cover up their foul deeds with a patina of deontological bullshit. I wish I could be as trusting in human goodness as you seem to be, but I live in New York, where rubes get skinned on a minute-ly basis.

That's the thing, though, which seems to me to be driving the opposition - the resentment of "those people" and their suspected "getting something for nothing, while I have to work for a living." I have to work for a living, too, but I count my blessings, having been born a white male in the U.S. of A. and look at it in a pragmatic way. Until people who can't afford healthcare stop seeking it when they are sick, it makes no sense to me to look at anything but a collective, ALL-INCLUSIVE solution to the problem.

The feeling is mutual. What makes you think corporations will not see the investment of buying a few elections and the subsequent removal of profit-inhibiting laws as a wise one? Do you not understand how capitalism works? Oh, and add "Net neutrality" to my above list.

Things you can kiss goodbye in about two Congressional elections or so: * Environmental regulations * Product safety regulations * Food safety regulations * Any other regulations a corporation thinks gets in the way of it making more money

Maybe he, like many (and myself) thinks the RNRHOF is ridiculous and that his time could be better spent.

Thank you, Adam Smith. Can you ask Mr. Hand to come up with a way to cover everybody?

OK - I respect that you have a concept and will put it out there. I don't think health care should be a consumer item. I don't want it left to the invisible hand.

Writers - Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies.

"mind-numbing gossip" about Haiti? That's cold.

The problem of millions being uninsured, smart ass.

What is your solution to the health care problem? What is your solution to the health care problem?

Underlining the health care debate for me personally is word that our insurance rates are going up 28 percent for next year.

Take a play out of Franklin D.'s book and expand the number of judges on the Supreme Court bench!

I will say it again - unless you want to go to the place where we refuse to give people medical treatment unless we prove their ability to pay up-front, the only reasonable approach is to have some form of socialized medicine. I just cannot believe it is better to make people wait until they need to go to the ER, where treatment costs the most, than spend money up front - EVEN IF THEY ARE LAZY JOBLESS FAT DORITO-EATING, GENERIC CIG-SMOKING BASTARDS. Anybody who is against universal coverage is being intellectually dishonest if they don't answer the question - do you really want to go to that p

Interview sounds funny: Warning: NSFW language

That is a highly interpretive lead, but face it - for most of us, corporations decide our destiny anyway.