Blood Money

Why is it so hard to apologize? It seems that in our culture throwing money to someone supersedes an apology when a wrong is committed.
He refused to take the Americans’ blood money.
Mohammed Hafidh Abdul-Razzaq had been summoned by U.S. Embassy officials who wanted to make amends for the killing of his 10-year-old son. The boy [...]

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When Health Care is an Extravagent Expense

Here we see why employer-based health insurance just does not work.
Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they used to be — often because of some combination of higher premiums, less extensive coverage, and bigger out-of-pocket deductibles and co-payments.
With medical [...]

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Sorry

Yesterday, what a day. It sucked. When I got up and went to read the papers online, I couldn’t get online. I spent several hours trying to figure out why my computer would not connect to the internet. I finally gave up, and deleted the connections and restarted from scratch. By that time, I as [...]

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