n Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health
By KEVIN SACK and MARJORIE CONNELLY June 21, 2009

Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector.

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Sheeeeit.

You know we have a picture page. And we updated Loving and Loathing.

Sam says to me, "Go to the New York Times site."
I say, "What's up?" and he says, "What is on your screen?" and I wait for the page to load. Then we both lose our shit completely.

There's something incredibly vulnerable about lying on your back, looking up at that magnifying glass spotlight device, all antiseptic off whites, while a doctor out of view tells you that nothing can be done.

I'm not dying, or even particularly pained, but I'm going through a momentary illness and it is getting to me. Getting to me in that keep the anger just below the surface, don't yell at your co-workers way.

Getting to me in that wear your clothes to hide yourself in a way one has never hid oneself before way.

Getting to me in a staring at my limbs and feeling, in that deeply haunting way, that I've, ha ha, taken the whole "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" line way to much to heart and now the enemy is inside me.

Getting to me in that I'm just thinking about myself all the time because the physical sensation irritates my skin, but forecloses any external divinity. Isn't it interesting that sense means both the act of physical feeling and the mental process of understanding? Mind Body divide, take that!

Getting to me in that I want to be healthy.

Okay, so a movie of killer robot military industrial complex gone amuck, the sequel to the awesome T2, promised for years since my adolescence, with a huge budget, I have to confess that I had some hope for Terminator Salvation, despite the absolute dreck that was T3, because maybe it could be really good.
McG, who directed it, has apparently done less critically acclaimed movies in the past, and he thought it was going to be awesome to resurrect his good name with the Terminator franchise. He was quoted as saying that his earlier shit work was like James Cameron's work before the first Terminator film, Piranha II: The Spawning. But McG has failed, spectacularly.
Terminator Salvation is so hack, plothole infused, poorly directed, I feel like my dumb adolescent self directed it. The only reason it has any value at all is that when I was a teenager, I always wanted to know what the post-apocalyptic robot future was going to look like and now I know.
A really crappy film.
* out of ***** stars

I said, hold off on the backlash. Don't waste your ammo. Give him time. Don't be lefter than thou, I counseled piously, he's here to run an empire and let's see how progressively he can do that.

There is no faster way to begin the end than to commemorate the memory of Reagan, the true baby killer, orderer of nun raping, butcher of Latin America, hater of the weak and the poor, war fucker, acting president, scorched husk of excrement with a quick joke and ready anecdote beaten only by the immediacy of his cold cold death hatred. And Mr. Hope and Change commemorates.

If you are my friend, please do not remind of this. I will probably argue for patience in the morning. I will almost definitely lament short-sightedness tomorrow. I know I will try to look through our political terrain and chart a course to radical change.

And if I say anything unevil about the current president, and you remind me of this nasty video, I'm going to have to choke down the vomit in the back of my throat. And that's gross.

President Obama, with Nancy Reagan, Signs Law for Ronald Reagan from White House on Vimeo.

SPOILER: OBAMA KISSES REAGAN!

Money Stat:

Analysts express such traffic in exabytes – a quintillion (or a million trillion) bytes or units of computer data. One exabyte is equivalent to 50,000 years’ worth of DVD-quality data.
Monthly traffic across the internet is running at about eight exabytes.

That's 400,000 YEARS worth of DVD Quality data a month. The other crazy stat I heard was that 24 HOURS of video is uploaded to youtube every minute. You simply cannot watch it all.