Synopsis Shame
Writing a synopsis for your novel is much, much worse than writing the novel itself. Blegh.
It's a shame that so many agents want them. Why can't I just query with a letter and sample forever and ever?!
Dum Dee Dum
You know what's way tougher than writing a novel? Editing a novel. Jesus, I thought I was done!
Zombies!
Real, scary zombies.
I'm away from the computer-- probably being devoured by a zombie. This is a scheduled update. Beep.
All the Gorey Details + Bernie Beautifully Belittles the Younger Paul
I hate to mention Al Gore and climate change in the same sentence, as the vice-president's name is something of a thought-stopping cliché for ACC denialists, but his essay in Rolling Stone is decent. Imperfect, but decent. Better yet: the comments, Duke! The comments!
Also, Bernies Sanders isn't a Paul kinda guy.
In the sad but highly-representative of the world we live in category, here's a link to the blog Dogs that Cops Killed. Ugh.
Blegh
There is totally no way that this information could be used to jack up premiums on people who are too poor to fill their prescriptions at times. No way.
The FICO® Medication Adherence Score helps health care organizations improve the effectiveness of their care, case and utilization management programs, and helps pharmaceutical manufacturers strengthen their programs for education and outreach. By identifying each patient’s propensity toward medication adherence over the next 12 months, this fully HIPAA-compliant solution helps direct activities to patients at highest risk of noncompliance, improving program efficiency and maximizing results.
Just in Case You Don’t Realize That Scott Adams Is Actual Garbage
Like, he's just a pile of garbage that has taken human form. Are you kidding me?
The part that interests me is that society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natural instincts of women are mostly legal and acceptable. In other words, men are born as round pegs in a society full of square holes. Whose fault is that? Do you blame the baby who didn’t ask to be born male? Or do you blame the society that brought him into the world, all round-pegged and turgid, and said, “Here’s your square hole”? ...
To be fair, if a man meets and marries the right woman, and she fulfills his needs, he might have no desire to tweet his meat to strangers. Everyone is different. But in general, society is organized as a virtual prison for men’s natural desires. I don’t have a solution in mind. It’s a zero sum game. If men get everything they want, women lose, and vice versa. And there’s no real middle ground because that would look like tweeting a picture of your junk with your underpants still on. Some things just don’t have a compromise solution.
Long term, I think science will come up with a drug that keeps men chemically castrated for as long as they are on it. It sounds bad, but I suspect that if a man loses his urge for sex, he also doesn’t miss it. Men and women would also need a second drug that increases oxytocin levels in couples who want to bond. Copulation will become extinct. Men who want to reproduce will stop taking the castration drug for a week, fill a few jars with sperm for artificial insemination, and go back on the castration pill.
That might sound to you like a horrible world. But the oxytocin would make us a society of huggers, and no one would be treated as a sex object. You’d have no rape, fewer divorces, stronger friendships, and a lot of other advantages. I think that’s where we’re headed in a few generations.
Why does he feel compelled to write on gender issues anyway? That whole comparing women to the developmentally disabled thing did go so well, after all, right?
It's amazing that men, who unequivocally control most of the wealth in the world, have set up a system that's apparently so tough for them.
Does it mean that I'm a feminine sort of guy if I'm not a'rapin' constantly and uploading compromising photos of myself to random women?
Or is it that Scott Adams is, in fact, really creepy and in need of a good shunning?
Gingrich Is Special
I'm no Obamaniac (President Kucinich, duh), but sheesh, Newt:
“He is a national secular European socialist. He believes in the government,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose campaign imploded last week when his top advisers resigned. In one of the first speeches since the shakeup, he entered and exited to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.”
I cannot wait until "Obama is literally a Nazi" is the phrase that the GOPers are fighting each other over saying the loudest.
Also, why run for government office if you don't believe in government?
