Let us discuss precisely how badly the Oregon state government has messed up its ad campaign trying to get young people to sign up for Obamacare. First, the background: Cover Oregon, the public agency set up to implement Oregon’s health exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, launched the first, $3.2 million ad … Continue reading Oregon’s epic #obamacare agitprop #fail.
Too cruel*. Anyway, Cover Oregon just now announced that its state health care exchange will not actually be live this month, after all. So, when will it be up? Funny you should ask that… [When asked about the original Halloween(!) timeline,] Spokesman Michael Cox said that timeline is now a goal, rather than an expectation. … Continue reading Quote of the Day, Good Thing Oreg… No, Let’s Not Make That Joke edition. #obamacare
This is sooooooo close to the Line. For the time being, Dell is no longer shipping certain Alienware Aurora R12 and R10 gaming PC configurations to half a dozen US states because those product lines potentially fall out of bounds of newly adopted energy efficiency requirements. When attempting to configure one of those systems, a … Continue reading Chipleggers of the Pacific Coast!
Well, he had to spend a grand to get it, sure. This turned out to be a very intelligent decision, because mint versions of that are worth up to fifteen grand. It would have been one even if it hadn’t been actually an authentic* Emperor Norton promissory note. But it apparently was! Kevin DeMattia, co-owner … Continue reading Guy just gets HANDED a Emperor Norton promissory note. He just gets HANDED one.
Neutron (Quantum 6) This alternate timeline is unique in that both Homeline and Centrum were firmly convinced that in 1936 the other had intervened in Neutron’s General War, via the sudden and strategic use of neutron bombs against the Frankish Empire. Certainly both sides had some reason to think so; the crippling of the Franks … Continue reading Neutron [Quantum 6] [GURPS 4e]
This is awkward for too many people, so it will be ignored: …a paper on polarization and inequality released in August by political scientists from Princeton, Georgetown, and the University of Oregon (and highlighted this week in a Washington Post article) provides some empirical evidence that Democratic Party’s leftward drift is more pronounced than the GOP’s rightward drift, at least at … Continue reading Study: Democratic polarization exceeds Republican polarization, for what it’s worth.
…or it is, and they’re not telling us simply because, crud, the only thing that you could do about it would be to move to another continent: “Yellowstone is one of the biggest supervolcanos in the world,” [Ilya Bindeman, associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Oregon] says. “Sometimes it erupts quietly with … Continue reading Yellowstone either *not* about to go up in pure light…
Peggy Noonan is quite the humorist. This is the reason many people don’t like ObamaCare. It’s also part of why people wind up making fun of the president at state fairs. (On that, everyone should breathe deep and remember, as the noted political philosopher Orson Welles once put it: “It’s the business of the American … Continue reading Peggy Noonan and @barackobama’s unconscious* assumption of privilege.
I haven’t really been paying attention to this particular race – it’s admittedly one of the few where the Republican incumbent (David Reichert) isn’t quite safe, but then again, it’s a bad year to be a Democratic challenger* – but I got tipped off to what appears to be a bit of a vetting problem … Continue reading Meet Suzan Delbene (D CAND, WA-08).
It is easier when they can stay being just faceless blobs, I suppose. Last week, Congressmen Joe Barton (R) and George Radanovich (R) sent a letter to Congressman Henry Waxman (D) requesting hearings into the rather badly misnamed Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. As you know, the CPSI was pushed through a Democrat-controlled Congress by … Continue reading Rep Waxman still refusing to face small business owners.
