I like the idea of doing this up properly as a viral email. Here's my take on what that might look like. It's a Google Doc that anyone can edit: "Secret Truths About Health Insurance Reform THEY Don't Want You to Know!"
abi @ 581:
With a mouse as a hammer. A dead one. A long dead one.
A weasel, perhaps? I'll admit that's a stretch, and that this may be a long-dead topic by now, so I will stop beating this dead, er, animal.
To me, the idea of forming an organization such as the MBA is a simply fabulous one; I hereby announce my intention to form the Writers of Letters to Editorial Pages Association (WLEPA) and the Street-Corner Soapbox Orators Association (SCSOA) in order to bring a much-needed public face to these two sadly under-represented groups.
Like A.J. Luxton @21, I owe Teresa thanks (thanks, Teresa!) for
inspiring me to get off my butt and seek a proper diagnosis. Twenty
years ago, when I was an undergraduate, I had a sleep study done
because I was unable to stay awake during mid-afternoon classes, no
matter how much caffeine I took, even when I was fascinated with the
subject matter and had a very good professor. The study turned up
nothing - I had the best night's sleep I could remember having in a
long time, despite being covered in electrodes and wires - so I just
gave up and figured there was nothing to be done. Even repeated
near-accidents during short morning drives, due to micro-sleep, didn't
get me to try again.
Then I went back to school to get my law degree, and it went from
irritating to "I might fail this class." In early 2006, after reading
Teresa's posts about what she was going through, I scheduled a sleep
study, and finally had a diagnosis and treatment by the start of 2007
(just in time for Baylor's dreaded Practice Court). I'm lucky - I have
mere idiopathic hypersomnolence ("you're too sleepy, and we don't know
why") and it responds marvelously to 100mg of Provigil a day.
Every few weeks I take a weekend off from the Provigil to preserve its
efficacy. When I do, my first reaction is "Whoa! What a rebound!" Then
I adjust, and realize that this is how I used to feel all the time.
abi @232: Woohoo! waves lighter
ajay @217: Dirty Harry? I'd like to fit "if you do trust in fortune" or suchlike in the last few lines, but can't see how to do it.
I would love to see what abi and the other poetically-inclined fluorospherians could coax from this MetaQuotes seedling:
J: My pardon; did I break thy concentration?
Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.
Allow me then to offer a response.
Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray.
B: What?
J: What country dost thou hail from?
B: What?
J: How passing strange, for I have traveled far,
And never have I heard tell of this What.
What language speak they in the land of What?
B: What?
J: The Queen's own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?
B: Aye!
J: Then hearken to my words and answer them!
Describe to me Marsellus Wallace!
B: What?
JULES presses his knife to BRETT's throat
J: Speak 'What' again! Thou cur, cry 'What' again!
I dare thee utter 'What' again but once!
I dare thee twice and spit upon thy name!
Now, paint for me a portraiture in words,
If thou hast any in thy head but 'What',
Of Marsellus Wallace!
B: He is dark.
J: Aye, and what more?
B: His head is shaven bald.
J: Has he the semblance of a harlot?
B: What?
JULES strikes and BRETT cries out
J: Has he the semblance of a harlot?
B: Nay!
J: Then why didst thou attempt to bed him thus?
B: I did not!
J: Aye, thou didst! O, aye, thou didst!
Thou hoped to rape him like a chattel whore,
And sooth, Lord Wallace is displeased to bed
With anyone but she to whom he wed.
Here in Texas, we may be seeing the start of a "tort reform" rebound. I'm told that many supporters of the legislation that all but wiped out medical malpractice suits in this state were lawyers who have realized, a bit late, that the law also removed the need to retain those same lawyers to defend those suits.
It may be worth mentioning, here, that Larry Sanger (Wikipedia co-founder) is trying to make a more sane version with the unfortunately hard-to-remember name "Citizendium".
It requires participants to use their real names, and claims to respect expertise. I just sent in an email to join it, and plan to try using it instead of Wikipedia. Here's hoping it succeeds.
To me, it isn't a war at all. When King George declared "Mission Accomplished", the brief war ended, and the Occupation of Iraq began. Ever since then, the Occupation has just been getting more violent and chaotic. Further, I note that it is incoherent to talk about "winning" an occupation.
The original is "All Your Base are Belong to Us". The "bases" version is a derivative of this, for geneticists who like video game engrish.
See the original video for a chuckle.
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