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Buffyfest Review of the Latest Buffy Comic
It apparently has a WTF cliffhanger. And then there's this
( somewhat spoilery bit )

I'm shocked.  Are you shocked?  I'm shocked.  :yawn:

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Planning the "Revenge" season finale :
Excerpt:
"Obviously, we're going to end with a cliff-hanger," Kelley said Sunday at the show's PaleyFest panel {...} What's coming up? {...}  Very little is known about Emily's mom, but new information will slowly surface later this season. "We'll find out certainly more about what happened to her mother," Kelley said. "It's really exciting and it's all ... leading towards a lot more story if we get a Season 2." Could the mysterious woman in question make an appearance, whether it be in present time or a flashback? "I think it'd be great to see her mother," Kelley teased. There's even the possibility that David Clarke may not really be dead. When asked, Kelley said "My answer is...," before a taking a sip of water...

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Damon Doesn't Give Up -- TVGuide Q&A with show writer Julie Plec
Excerpt:
Can we expect reconciliation between Elena and Stefan soon?
Julie Plec: We can expect movement, we can expect breakthroughs, we can expect honest conversations and we can expect some frustration as they continue to try to rediscover if those feelings that were so strong in the beginning still exist. Did they go away and has Stefan ruined it forever? Or does Elena still have a willingness and an ability to love him? In the midst of all that, [we'll] confront the question of what exactly has evolved and transpired in the Damon and Elena friendship that's gotten so far this year. The rest of the season is going to be circling around those questions. 
Whole Article Here

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Stephen Hawking to do a cameo on "The Big Bang Theory"

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WTF? Doctor Who meets Donnie Darko...
Girls' Time Travel Attempt Leads to Double Suicide     Yikes.

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How We All Paid for the Healthcare of the Woman Who Sued Obamacare...
If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of the health care reform law.

The NFIB thought it had found the perfect person when one of its members, Mary Brown, a 56-year-old owner of an automobile repair shop in Panama City, Florida, volunteered to lend her name to the lawsuit. {...} She said she was uninsured and was that way by choice.

"She firmly believes that no one should have the right to tell her she has to use her own money to pay for health insurance," Karen Harned, executive director of the NFIB legal center, said {...}  Last year Brown filed for personal bankruptcy. Among her debts: nearly $4,500 in medical bills. More than $2,000 of that was owed to the Bay Medical Center in Panama City. The rest was to doctors in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.

The NFIB had to scramble to find another small business owner to replace Brown's name at the top of the lawsuit. It settled on Kaj Ahlburg, a retired New York investment banker in Port Angeles, Washington.

Here's why I would make sure that Brown's unfortunate turn of events was brought to the high court's attention: It is people who have decided not to buy coverage -- but who nevertheless get sick or injured and seek medical care when they do, even if they don't have the money to pay for it -- that make health insurance so expensive for the rest of us. And it is why the cost of coverage has become completely unaffordable for millions of other Americans who, unlike Mary Brown, really want it and know they need it. (...)

It is not truly accurate, of course, that that {...} uncompensated care at Bay Medical Center is, indeed, uncompensated. Somebody has to pay for it. And guess who that is? It is all of us. Even Mary Brown. She and the rest of us cover that uncompensated care either through higher taxes to support the Medicare and Medicaid programs or through higher health insurance premiums. The care that presumably is "absorbed" by the hospitals is, in reality, being absorbed not by those facilities but by us. This is what the term "cost shifting" is all about.

And this irrational way of paying for that so-called uncompensated care has us locked into a dysfunctional system in which costs for both the insured and the uninsured keep spiraling upward.

Whole article here

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Haven't seen anyone mention it, even with all the publicity.  Anyone notice that BtVS's "Jonathan" aka Danny Strong was one of the writers of HBO's "Game Change"?  There was nothing earthshattering or even new in the movie, but nice job for him.

Stuff

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Buffyfest Review of the Latest Buffy Comic
It apparently has a WTF cliffhanger. And then there's this
( somewhat spoilery bit )

I'm shocked.  Are you shocked?  I'm shocked.  :yawn:

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Planning the "Revenge" season finale :
Excerpt:
"Obviously, we're going to end with a cliff-hanger," Kelley said Sunday at the show's PaleyFest panel {...} What's coming up? {...}  Very little is known about Emily's mom, but new information will slowly surface later this season. "We'll find out certainly more about what happened to her mother," Kelley said. "It's really exciting and it's all ... leading towards a lot more story if we get a Season 2." Could the mysterious woman in question make an appearance, whether it be in present time or a flashback? "I think it'd be great to see her mother," Kelley teased. There's even the possibility that David Clarke may not really be dead. When asked, Kelley said "My answer is...," before a taking a sip of water...

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Damon Doesn't Give Up -- TVGuide Q&A with show writer Julie Plec
Excerpt:
Can we expect reconciliation between Elena and Stefan soon?
Julie Plec: We can expect movement, we can expect breakthroughs, we can expect honest conversations and we can expect some frustration as they continue to try to rediscover if those feelings that were so strong in the beginning still exist. Did they go away and has Stefan ruined it forever? Or does Elena still have a willingness and an ability to love him? In the midst of all that, [we'll] confront the question of what exactly has evolved and transpired in the Damon and Elena friendship that's gotten so far this year. The rest of the season is going to be circling around those questions. 
Whole Article Here

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Stephen Hawking to do a cameo on "The Big Bang Theory"

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WTF? Doctor Who meets Donnie Darko...
Girls' Time Travel Attempt Leads to Double Suicide     Yikes.

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How We All Paid for the Healthcare of the Woman Who Sued Obamacare...
If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of the health care reform law.

The NFIB thought it had found the perfect person when one of its members, Mary Brown, a 56-year-old owner of an automobile repair shop in Panama City, Florida, volunteered to lend her name to the lawsuit. {...} She said she was uninsured and was that way by choice.

"She firmly believes that no one should have the right to tell her she has to use her own money to pay for health insurance," Karen Harned, executive director of the NFIB legal center, said {...}  Last year Brown filed for personal bankruptcy. Among her debts: nearly $4,500 in medical bills. More than $2,000 of that was owed to the Bay Medical Center in Panama City. The rest was to doctors in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.

The NFIB had to scramble to find another small business owner to replace Brown's name at the top of the lawsuit. It settled on Kaj Ahlburg, a retired New York investment banker in Port Angeles, Washington.

Here's why I would make sure that Brown's unfortunate turn of events was brought to the high court's attention: It is people who have decided not to buy coverage -- but who nevertheless get sick or injured and seek medical care when they do, even if they don't have the money to pay for it -- that make health insurance so expensive for the rest of us. And it is why the cost of coverage has become completely unaffordable for millions of other Americans who, unlike Mary Brown, really want it and know they need it. (...)

It is not truly accurate, of course, that that {...} uncompensated care at Bay Medical Center is, indeed, uncompensated. Somebody has to pay for it. And guess who that is? It is all of us. Even Mary Brown. She and the rest of us cover that uncompensated care either through higher taxes to support the Medicare and Medicaid programs or through higher health insurance premiums. The care that presumably is "absorbed" by the hospitals is, in reality, being absorbed not by those facilities but by us. This is what the term "cost shifting" is all about.

And this irrational way of paying for that so-called uncompensated care has us locked into a dysfunctional system in which costs for both the insured and the uninsured keep spiraling upward.

Whole article here

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Haven't seen anyone mention it, even with all the publicity.  Anyone notice that BtVS's "Jonathan" aka Danny Strong was one of the writers of HBO's "Game Change"?  There was nothing earthshattering or even new in the movie, but nice job for him.

Stuff

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Buffyfest Review of the Latest Buffy Comic
It apparently has a WTF cliffhanger. And then there's this
( somewhat spoilery bit )

I'm shocked.  Are you shocked?  I'm shocked.  :yawn:

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Planning the "Revenge" season finale :
Excerpt:
"Obviously, we're going to end with a cliff-hanger," Kelley said Sunday at the show's PaleyFest panel {...} What's coming up? {...}  Very little is known about Emily's mom, but new information will slowly surface later this season. "We'll find out certainly more about what happened to her mother," Kelley said. "It's really exciting and it's all ... leading towards a lot more story if we get a Season 2." Could the mysterious woman in question make an appearance, whether it be in present time or a flashback? "I think it'd be great to see her mother," Kelley teased. There's even the possibility that David Clarke may not really be dead. When asked, Kelley said "My answer is...," before a taking a sip of water...

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Damon Doesn't Give Up -- TVGuide Q&A with show writer Julie Plec
Excerpt:
Can we expect reconciliation between Elena and Stefan soon?
Julie Plec: We can expect movement, we can expect breakthroughs, we can expect honest conversations and we can expect some frustration as they continue to try to rediscover if those feelings that were so strong in the beginning still exist. Did they go away and has Stefan ruined it forever? Or does Elena still have a willingness and an ability to love him? In the midst of all that, [we'll] confront the question of what exactly has evolved and transpired in the Damon and Elena friendship that's gotten so far this year. The rest of the season is going to be circling around those questions. 
Whole Article Here

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Stephen Hawking to do a cameo on "The Big Bang Theory"

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WTF? Doctor Who meets Donnie Darko...
Girls' Time Travel Attempt Leads to Double Suicide     Yikes.

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How We All Paid for the Healthcare of the Woman Who Sued Obamacare...
If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of the health care reform law.

The NFIB thought it had found the perfect person when one of its members, Mary Brown, a 56-year-old owner of an automobile repair shop in Panama City, Florida, volunteered to lend her name to the lawsuit. {...} She said she was uninsured and was that way by choice.

"She firmly believes that no one should have the right to tell her she has to use her own money to pay for health insurance," Karen Harned, executive director of the NFIB legal center, said {...}  Last year Brown filed for personal bankruptcy. Among her debts: nearly $4,500 in medical bills. More than $2,000 of that was owed to the Bay Medical Center in Panama City. The rest was to doctors in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.

The NFIB had to scramble to find another small business owner to replace Brown's name at the top of the lawsuit. It settled on Kaj Ahlburg, a retired New York investment banker in Port Angeles, Washington.

Here's why I would make sure that Brown's unfortunate turn of events was brought to the high court's attention: It is people who have decided not to buy coverage -- but who nevertheless get sick or injured and seek medical care when they do, even if they don't have the money to pay for it -- that make health insurance so expensive for the rest of us. And it is why the cost of coverage has become completely unaffordable for millions of other Americans who, unlike Mary Brown, really want it and know they need it. (...)

It is not truly accurate, of course, that that {...} uncompensated care at Bay Medical Center is, indeed, uncompensated. Somebody has to pay for it. And guess who that is? It is all of us. Even Mary Brown. She and the rest of us cover that uncompensated care either through higher taxes to support the Medicare and Medicaid programs or through higher health insurance premiums. The care that presumably is "absorbed" by the hospitals is, in reality, being absorbed not by those facilities but by us. This is what the term "cost shifting" is all about.

And this irrational way of paying for that so-called uncompensated care has us locked into a dysfunctional system in which costs for both the insured and the uninsured keep spiraling upward.

Whole article here

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Haven't seen anyone mention it, even with all the publicity.  Anyone notice that BtVS's "Jonathan" aka Danny Strong was one of the writers of HBO's "Game Change"?  There was nothing earthshattering or even new in the movie, but nice job for him.

Bwhahahaha!

Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D) isn't happy with bills that seek to control women's access to contraception and abortion. She has joined a trend across the nation by introducing a bill that would require men seeking a prescription for erectile dysfunction drugs to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and "get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency." Sex therapists would be required to present the option of "celibacy as a viable lifestyle choice.”

"The men in our lives, including members of the General Assembly, generously devote time to fundamental female reproductive issues—the least we can do is return the favor," Senator Turner said. "It is crucial that we take the appropriate steps to shelter vulnerable men from the potential side effects of these drugs.

"When a man makes a crucial decision about his health and his body, he should be fully aware of the alternative options and the lifetime repercussions of that decision," Senator Turner said today. Men will be more easily guided through the process of obtaining treatment for impotence so they can better understand and more effectively address their condition."

Bwhahahaha!

Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D) isn't happy with bills that seek to control women's access to contraception and abortion. She has joined a trend across the nation by introducing a bill that would require men seeking a prescription for erectile dysfunction drugs to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and "get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency." Sex therapists would be required to present the option of "celibacy as a viable lifestyle choice.”

"The men in our lives, including members of the General Assembly, generously devote time to fundamental female reproductive issues—the least we can do is return the favor," Senator Turner said. "It is crucial that we take the appropriate steps to shelter vulnerable men from the potential side effects of these drugs.

"When a man makes a crucial decision about his health and his body, he should be fully aware of the alternative options and the lifetime repercussions of that decision," Senator Turner said today. Men will be more easily guided through the process of obtaining treatment for impotence so they can better understand and more effectively address their condition."

Bwhahahaha!

Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D) isn't happy with bills that seek to control women's access to contraception and abortion. She has joined a trend across the nation by introducing a bill that would require men seeking a prescription for erectile dysfunction drugs to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and "get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency." Sex therapists would be required to present the option of "celibacy as a viable lifestyle choice.”

"The men in our lives, including members of the General Assembly, generously devote time to fundamental female reproductive issues—the least we can do is return the favor," Senator Turner said. "It is crucial that we take the appropriate steps to shelter vulnerable men from the potential side effects of these drugs.

"When a man makes a crucial decision about his health and his body, he should be fully aware of the alternative options and the lifetime repercussions of that decision," Senator Turner said today. Men will be more easily guided through the process of obtaining treatment for impotence so they can better understand and more effectively address their condition."