He is?

Uh yea, guys with a great bod kind of do it for me.... dude.

I didn't see it in that pic ....
But, ok ...

We were drinking McNulties at the bar last night and the bartender told us about the time McNulty and Bubbles came in there together and they ended up having a drinking contest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/health/policy/15health.html?_r=1&hp

the only reason why I watched The Wire.

That and you're white.

On NPR today, it sounded like Obama was backpedaling hard away from capping anything.  I guess too many senior democrats are in the pocket of the trial lawyer lobby. 

Caps really do make sense.  On a lot of things, not just malpractice suits.  Too bad everyone thinks they're going to win the 300 million dollar power ball on everything.

Before you can  apply caps you need tort reform to back it up and that ain't gonna happen the way ambulance chasers are entrenched in every crack of our society. Their lobby and good ol' boy network is just too powerful.

I think we should be allowed to shoot them on sight.

In light of all this discussion, I'm planning on trying to opt-in to an insurance plan to cover me for the upcoming school year until I can get coverage from my employer about a year from now (assuming I get hired after working as a year-round intern -- which I think is exceedingly likely).

My school (University of Maryland) is also requiring that students have health insurance come this fall, so for someone like me who has been uninsured for the past couple years after losing my ability to be on my dad's insurance after I finished undergraduate in 2006, I have to make some choice.  The school is offering it's own plan through a provider for $1200 a year, but it seems pretty shit.  At least it would be better than nothing but I am not sure.  I am researching health care plans for the first time in my life and I am flabbergasted with how jargon-filled and arcane the descriptions are, especially intentionally elusive aspects of many plans which do not allow you to see the details of certain things until you log into their site (as a member, as a paying insured member who has already signed on).

$1200 per year for emergencies and minor health maintenance (which at your age is nil) is a pretty good price.

Look in Kaiser Permanente. That's what I have and it's pretty good.

Forgot to say this: The US healthcare system is based solely on creating wealth, not creating health. When we change that we'll get rid of shit doctors and pharmaceutical companies that control everything, and have a system that works.

...right after they figure out how to genetically remove the wings from pigs and put the horn back on the horses.

Exactly.

I think Obama's going to have to invoke the will and anger of the masses to get anything done here.

..or sacrifice a chicken.

..or sacrifice a chicken.

Far more likely than him invoking the will & anger of the masses.  

Also more likely:
having sex with said chicken post sacrifice and eating his own semen mixed with the blood as a sacrament to Satan.

The police commissioner ...

Commissioner Gorgon?