The story of my health insurance crisis, by the numbers.8 --The day in February (not March, FEBRUARY) that my doctor first sent in the pre-authorization for my medication.17-- The day in February that I picked up my last prescription for my medication and found out that the pharmacy had only filled ...

I don't know why, but I can't stop looking at these photos of gulls stealing ice cream.This post was written by and © Sharon Stiteler, the Birdchick....

Met Police keep database of protesters. In stellar conjunction with recent secret corporate databases, we can only assume one thing: The Powers that Be are Afraid What do those questioning the status quo have to gain? A change in the status quo. A silent revolution. A world in which certain jobs are...

Excellent map. You can also see it by housing bubble presence, rurality and manufacturing. The one thing that you have to pick around and see for yourself is that places with high levels of extractive industry (WVa, AK, TX, and WY) are doing AOK. The American Economy is a carbon economy.... KnoxView...

One of the things that drives me the absolute craziest about the hate bloggers is their inability to read. Oh, they THINK they know how to read, but when it comes right down to it, they have no clue as to how to pick up nuances that make a sentence readable. Like the subject, verb and adverbs. I may...

Although this isn't really a topic of discussion in my own house, it's been coming up a lot in my real life as well as on the internet, and today my parent's group really dug deep into the issue. My thinking is that when your daughter becomes sexually active, it's your duty as a parent to take her t...

For someone that does as little as possible to avoid pain, I have three different and equally compelling blog topics for today. But seeing as not only am I doing as little as possible, I'm also thinking as little as possible (hello Percocet goodbye brain), so I can't decide just what to talk about, ...

The Girl has worked at our local Panera since last August. In that time she's been sick a couple of times and they have given her an incredible hassle about missing her shifts. By hassle I mean demanding a doctor's note, making her find people to fill in for her missing shifts, and being generally f...

A woman's tightly woven hair weave allegedly saved her life from a gunshot fired by her ex-boyfriend. The 20-year-old Kansas City woman told police Juan Kemp, her ex-boyfriend, opened fire on her while she was inside her car at a Kansas City convenience store Wednesday night. Bonds' back window and ...

What you're looking at there is a dude's fingernail and the remains of a finger that got crushed between two Neodymium magnets. Brutal! Sweet! Dirk had an accident. It took 1 1/2 hours of surgery to remove the shattered bones and repair the damage. Medically speaking, he crushed his right index fing...