I'm not leaving the house at 4am to castrate a cat. Forget it.

[conuly]

It'll have to wait a week. The downside to this is that he will have to be introduced to my cats and then reintroduced after he recovers. Fun times!

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An open letter to Charles Koch

http://bit.ly/1gVBSbv

Confusing Math Homework? Don’t Blame the Common Core

http://bit.ly/1lqYb9n

Health insurance isn’t a year-round thing anymore

http://to.pbs.org/PHYH7V

Mormon women, seeking wider role, denied entrance to all-male priesthood meeting

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79833798/

Marine Park woman receives letters after 45 years

http://bit.ly/1qcH6C7

Star Birth Sparked at the Galaxy's Edge

http://bit.ly/QLbsQc

A U.S. Navy warship was headed Saturday to rescue a 1-year-old girl who fell ill on a crippled sailboat that was attempting to circle the world.

http://bit.ly/1mNUbQe

Climate change is uncertain, which is why the best way to understand how warming will change the world is through the language of risk

http://time.com/50148/climate-change-is-a-game-of-risk/

Virginia ballpark proposal stirs slave-trade memories

http://fxn.ws/PI22Um

Concerned about the threat of major mudslides in Oso, Washington, officials considered buying out property owners. But homebuilding was allowed to continue, raising questions of liability.

http://bit.ly/1sn2BlF

Today, in the political discourse of the west, it is almost unthinkably hard to ask a very simple question: why should we work?

http://bit.ly/1ikuIv2

Scientists Home In On Earth-Sized Exoplanet

http://bit.ly/1fX9eT3

Peak phosphorus will be a shortage we can’t stomach

http://bit.ly/Oba1by

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Equality: How the Far Right Co-Opted American Populism

http://bit.ly/1lCqEcg

Scientifically Illiterate Congressmen Are Resigning the World to Ruin

http://bit.ly/1sdUzvy

Medieval Poop Found: Still Stinks

http://bit.ly/1iavBX5

Countries With Less Religious Diversity Have More Faith-Based Violence

http://bit.ly/1jLyDUx

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

From the health insurance link:

Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go online to buy standard health care coverage any time of year. Not anymore.

What do they mean "until now?" When I was getting insurance through an employer 15 years ago, there were limited enrollment periods. When I bought my own insurance with COBRA, there were limited enrollment periods. When I qualified for Medicare, there were limited enrollment periods.

If an individual did something that made them eligible for a different kind of health insurance (like if they qualified for medicare, or became unemployed, or moved, or had a baby) they had a month or so to enroll in a new plan if they wanted. But otherwise there was a short "open enrollment" season, and if you missed it you were stuck.

(The article doesn't seem to have known about that, just as it doesn't seem to have noticed any publicity about the ACA open enrollment period having a time limit. But they do acknowledge that individuals whose life circumstances change can enroll before the next open enrollment season in 7 months.)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

You left your phone down here...again.