Our broken health care system

Why should a person without insurance have to pay 20 times as much for an MRI as someone with insurance.


I’m definitely glad I have good health insurance!

Unsubscribing

So, why does it take seconds to subscribe, but 10 days to unsubscribe?



I think I got signed up for this in the exhibit hall of a conference a few years ago.  Finally went looking for the unsubscribe link.  This is what awaited me.

Right Turn on Red

The other morning I was stopped at a red light in the right turn lane.  I was assessing traffic and making sure that the car in the closest  lane of cross traffic was really going to stop.  Then I heard the honk.  REALLY?  Was someone honking at me because I had not yet turned right on red?

After I turned, and he turned too, he passed me.  Yep, he was in a Mercedes convertible.  I guess he thought he was more important than me, or that his time was more valuable than my safety.

Don’t you people realize that the right to turn right on red is a privilege and not a requirement?  Go ahead and honk at me if I fail to notice a green light and am slow away from my stop.  But don’t honk at me because I haven’t turned right on a red light.

Why “Clutterfication”?

In an earlier post, I ranted about how all the “good” blog names are taken.  I still needed a name for my blog.  It seemed to me that a made-up word my be the key to my success.

The other day, a coworker was talking, “blah blah blah clarification blah blah blah”.  My brain did a double-take because I heard clutterfication instead of clarification.  It didn’t take my brain long to adjust to the correct word, but I thought my misunderstanding was not only humorous, but also somehow appropriate.  So often when we attempt to clarify things we just make them worse:  we clutterfy them instead.

So, I have decided that clutterfy is the antonym of clarify, and there for clutterfication is the opposite of clarification.

In this blog I may clarify some things.  For others, I may just reflect on how clutterfied they are.

All the good names are taken

All the "good" blog names are taken.

I wanted to start a blog of my random rants and bits of wisdom.  Clearly "Random Rants" or "Random Bits Of Wisdom"  would be a good name.  Hold on.  Those were taken.  So were many of the other ones I tried.

People are allowed to create blogs and use the "good" names. That's not what bothers me.  What bothers me is how many of those blogs are inactive.

• random.blogspot.com has exactly one post.  From 2001.
• randommusings.blogspot.com.  One post.  From 2000.
• thisissorandom.blogspot.com.  The last post was in 2006.
• 101ways.blogspot.com.  The last post was in 2003.

And the list goes on and on.  Honestly, I'm OK with the blogs that haven't posted in years.  What irks me, though are the ones where no one every really used it.  They're wasting a good name.