One of the comments on DoubleX's reader stories of health insurance nightmares: To the woman with blood clots... Call your insurance company and ask for their Appeals ...
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There's the pointless embarrassment of a state governor calling a press conference to reveal he's had something as commonplace as an affair. And the emails ...
Iran news and images via Twitter. Can't look away. And it breaks my heart: I don't see a way around more violence and bloodshed and ...
I can't take a feminist seriously if she takes a condescending tone towards traditionally female activities like crafting in order to make some otherwise valid ...
If medical bills underly 60% of bankruptcies, then how much of all debt, including outstanding debt that hasn't yet crippled anyone, is due to medical ...
If those of us who grew up speaking another language can learn to pronounce others' - to us - foreign names correctly, then isn't it ...
I know that's not a word. Or anything close to it. I just keep thinking of that school strip search story, and just what component ...
Stories like this, about schools and their right to strip search, without due process, any student if they suspect s/he has any drugs on her/him, ...
All day I kept thinking: in their shoes, I'd fear for my life too. Except there's a difference: I hope I would not have accepted money ...
Baby Z can do it now: Big change from the less successful lip-crawling phase.* And non-groaning phase. Also note: how I torture my child by moving ...
Sweet Juniper writes beautifully about Detroit and why we should bail out the big three, and the changed landscape of where and how the stuff ...
Paul Krugman's right: one of the most important areas of legislation, if not THE most important area of legislation that the next administration should enact ...
We voted. In the little elementary school's gym near our house, one of our neighbors was the poll worker, and my name was, unsurprisingly, hard ...
Faustina laughed out loud for the first time today. I was giving her a bath tonight, trying to imitate what her father does (he's away ...
Judith Warner says about Palin (among other thoughtful things): Just look at how quickly the reaction to Palin devolved into what The Times this week called ...
These people terrify me (link found at dooce, who says pretty close to what I think of it all). About Palin: so many have said ...
Because in Internet-time this is really old news - but I'm on vacation - but mostly: Biden? Really? This, once again, makes me ponder that ...
France denied citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wears a niqab because She has adopted a radical practice of her religion, incompatible with essential values of ...
I love Obama. What's not to love? But I'm torn about Hillary Clinton, I feel for her now as she's being abandoned. And not because it ...
I got my economic stimulus check, which was - naturally - for an amount far less than the so-called $600 minimum. Because, you know, I ...
"In fact, Mrs. Clinton was accurately repeating the story as it was told to her -- and it turns out that while some of the ...
Seriously? Is Amy Winehouse somehow a security risk to the U.S.?
I want to record something here that so far, I've kept rather private. Not my vote, which I've cast, and which is now a part ...
I vote for the first time in the U.S., on Super Tuesday. I studied: I read through policy proposals, looked at endorsements, criticisms, what-have-you. And I ...
The Omaha, Nebraska shooting at the mall, I mean. I was just watching the news and the newscaster asked the - admittedly rhetorical - question ...
