Health care for everybody...do we really want more people living comfortably? I think not. After all, why should people live well? Sucks to them, I have a good job with health care, why don't they? So what if a sinking economy is forcing lay-offs, I say if they're not in a job by the next day then they don't want to work.

On a different note, I've finally created a demo. Josh and Jennifer know that (and probably nobody else) I've been practicing my DJ skills with aspirations of somebody annoying old people with my very loud music pumping from every car. What they don't know is that I finally created a demo that I'm pretty happy with (not completely...i got a bit goofy at the end...but hey...who cares?)
Anyway, if you want to listen to it you can pull it from ftp://68.8.10.66 with an anon login...it's a pretty big mp3.

Aetna sent us a letter last week listing medications that our insurance plan was no longer going to fully cover. When I looked over the list I was amazed to see how many of the medications on that list are medications that my clients with Cerebral Palsy take on a daily basis.
Many of the medications are for spasticity or they are psychotropic medications, both of which allow people with some form of a disablity to function and have more rewarding lives.
Aside from incresing rates for people who need a medication to treat a disability, here is what really gets me: Now lets say a person with mild CP can no longer afford the Dantrium he/she take 3 times a day since the price has doubled. The person looses fine motor skills that result in the loss of employment. The person is now without employment and he/she decides to apply for Medical. Medical fully covers Dantrium, the person regains fine motor skills, and goes back to work. They get $2000 to their name, they loose all Medical coverage........
I think that the state should provide health care for its citizens. The idea that a state could do that without discouraging its citizens from returning to gainful employment and being contributing members to society, is a great one. The state provides care to keep its members healthy and fit for working, playing, and learning, and in return the members provide their state, cities, and communities with their services and a small financial contribution.
Seems like a good idea to me, but then I'm the one who choose the Onieda community over Mormonism as a more ideal life style in sociology class.

Jenn

Digging the guide to the apostrophe. Where the fuck did they learn that? Do they not read? Do they only read what other innorint peopl'e right?

Can we add in here that I'm in a really excellent college and still know people who write shit like "haveing" and "makeing."

What the hell?

~Dave

JWI -

Thanks! I updated the post.

- Josh

In response to the mcgees.org question:

didie -- diaper

From All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren, 1946), "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud." (p. 46)

Hey...

Two Pearl Jam related items.

1) I told you this already Josh, just posting it up for the rest of the mcgees.org posse. When you're discussing new Pearl Jam songs, and you say that they write songs that sound like yours, I would contend that you have cause and effect just slightly backward. :)

2) I've been humming a song for a while, I realised it sounded like Pearl Jam, I deduced that I didn't write it, so I started singing it just now. Turns out it was "Thin Air" from Binaural. Shit. Maybe I'll listen to Binaural today.

~Dave

Josh-- listening to a radio interview with Pearl Jam (yeah, all of them!) on 92.3 WXRQ (which they call K-Rock, for some reason).

Don't worry, I taped it. :)

This is a running commentary...

Mike (I think it was Mike... maybe Stone) and Ed just said that this is their best album. Umm... good!

I Am Mine... I don't even know what to say... what an INCREDIBLE song! Just... downright... just... wow... in terms of album placement (like we tend to do) it sounds like "No Code"... but only if they recorded "No Code" after "Yield." If that makes sense. Which it does. :)

Throwing in here that Matt Cameron ROCKS.

Just played "Save You." OK... it rocks. I have to listen to it more because I had trouble understanding the lyrics, but musically it's excellent.

Have to go to rehearsal now... second half at a later date.

~Dave

I just realized...

If I were to take the lyrics to any on a number of Tenacious D songs, and replace the phrase "K.G." with "McGee", I'd have a pretty nifty little song about us. For example (from Dio)...

Old Version:
You must give your cape and scepter to me!
And a smaller one for K.G.!

New Version:
You must give your cape and scepter to me!
And a smaller one for McGee!

See how it works? It's this sort of keen insight into the musical mind that makes me one of the recording industry's most beloved superstars.

-BMH

Josh,

Thanks for the info. I'll look it up. I don't think that I've mentioned my LJ before, which may be a good thing, as quite a bit of it is in fairly poor taste. I'm not sure if all of my older entries are in there. I moved a lot of them over from http://whelp.diaryland.com. If you can access those, they're some of my best stuff. My latest Livejournal stuff is more of a report about my life than a comedy column, although it does have its moments.

Also, you shouldn't let any of the stuff that I've written about Chelsea color your perceptions of her. I tend to portray her on LJ in a fairly unflattering (but light-hearted) light.

-BMH