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1. about 7 hours ago on Two Party Opera

   You can be d—-ed sure that the Right will try to convince the voters that it’s in “their best interests” to keep the status quo.

   Good luck with your contract negotiations!

2. about 8 hours ago on Two Party Opera

   When my former employer changed (“upgraded” they said,) insurance carriers, they notified us that the new premiums and higher deductibles would “enable you to more easily keep track of costs.”

   “Benefits” as salary… it’s cheaper in the long run to provide (sometime) intangibles (extra vacation/sick leave days, flex time, tuition discounts, employee rec centres, etc.) than actually pay higher wages.

3. about 12 hours ago on Two Party Opera

   Actually, a roll of nickels in the fist works just as well.

4. about 12 hours ago on Two Party Opera

   Well, about the part about employers providing insurance as a “benefit…”

   Almost anyone fortunate enough to have any employer-provided insurance will have seen that the plans on offer have gotten more expensive (through their paycheck deductions) and the coverage becoming increasingly minimal- if not actually notional. Employers often select the cheapest plans out there and pay smaller percentages of the premiums.

   The sad thing is that for anyone to have any kind of insurance anymore is to be employed by a company that provides it. There are so many loopholes and exceptions to employer insurance schemes that for so many people have no meaningful coverage.

   This all is a result of allowing health care to become a commodity.

5. about 13 hours ago on Two Party Opera

   Don’t leave out the part about filing off the barbs of the bayonet blade, and what would happen if one were captured with such a bayonet.

   Also, the Tommies would summarily execute any Jerry caught with a sharpened entrenching tool.

   No glory in war.

6. about 15 hours ago on Two Party Opera

   Yeah, but i just didn’t want to pile on the negativity and hopelessness.

7. about 15 hours ago on Candorville

   Wrath in the form of a slow-motion train wreck.

8. about 15 hours ago on Candorville

   If a god is involved, it’s probably not to bless America.

9. about 15 hours ago on One Big Happy

   Possession is 9/10s of the law.

10. about 15 hours ago on Adult Children

    …or see your absence.