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From Mother Jones:

Does this tornado look gay?

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From Washington Post:

Survey: Rising health insurance costs shifted to workers

And yet, they rail against Obamacare, which would actually decrease costs to workers. Do wonders never cease?

James Kwak, at Baseline Scenario, discussing Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W.W. Norton, 2009), by Kim Phillips-Fein:

It also contains this gem for anyone who thinks the American people suddenly developed warm and fuzzy feelings about the Constitution in the past two years. Describing the 1934 founding of the American Liberty League—a rabidly anti-Roosevelt, anti-New Deal organization—she writes (p. 10):

“The main topic of discussion was creating a ‘propertyholders’ association,’ as Irénée [DuPont] put it, to disseminate ‘information as to the dangers to investors’ posed by the New Deal. The group decided that the name of their association should not refer directly to property—it would be better to frame their activities as a broad defense of the Constitution.”

From Ezra Klein, 9/9/2011:

From Andrew Sullivan via Ezra Klein, this incredible

Graphic showing US medical Errors

Yikes–everything is a new version, and each has significant differences from the former version.  So what used to work doesn’t now, and you’ve got to figure out just what it is that needs doing.

Time to go to dinner.

Sheesh!  Been down two days , almost three, to install a new hard drive in the server.  This involves installing the new hard drive, installing new server software, and restoring former data and connections.

Wanted to try going to Ubuntu server, but that install hung up at the first install screen. (later found someone who said he has waited 7 hours before ubuntu would respond at that point).  So decided to go with CentOS 6 — had been running CentOS 4, but that didn’t support PHP 5, which I needed to upgrade my WordPress installation.  Turned out I’d bittorrented down the wrong Centos file, and had to go back and get the right .iso file.  After burning the DVD (Oh, had to put a DVD drive into the server rather than CD), the install went fine…after a couple of hangups, and unclear install screens, but that’s par for the course with RedHat (CentOS is public distribution of RedHat Enterprise).

About 4 hours to get internet going—went to bed after that one.

Spent all day on mail, only to discover a stupid firewall error.  Oh, well.

Still have to get a few web sites working;  same config file, but each of four web sites have completely different problems!

I don’t need to do the Times Crossword, so long as these things come along.

I’d love to be the guy who makes up the names on Colbert’s contributors crawl.

Just got finished reading “Shit My Father Says,” by Justin Halpern.  Very funny.

Here’s a query:  Do you remember your father ever saying to you, “I love you.”?

Just heard a commentator on a Slate podcast use the term “harshing” — “…the critic was harshing on the film…”  Harsh is now a verb?