Archive of entries posted on 2nd November 2013

Link of the Day: HealthCare.Gov In Real Life

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(Submitted by DamnCat via Nied’s Dead Horse at Storify [High Praise!])

NDH Marketplace

While acknowledging that trying to read a story in the form of a series of tweets ranks somewhere between dropping a bowling ball on your foot and barking you shin on a coffee table in a darkened room, this is worth a read.

Seriously people, stop creating narratives out of a series of tweets. It’s as unnecessarily jarring as reading e e cummings poetry.

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Video of Frank J. (Kinda) on TV

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Here’s video of my sorta appearance on The Willis Report on FBN.

BTW, the picture I used was from a recent newborn photo shoot for my son. I just cropped out the stupid baby and was good to go.

So, next step I’ll be on camera, but I won’t talk. And then finally I’ll do the full deal. And fame and fortune will surely follow.

Anyway, here’s the Twitter feed if you haven’t seen it.

And Rand Simberg who I started the parody account has a book coming out, Safe Is Not an Option, on how our obsessions with safety is killing our progress in space.

By Any Other Name

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[High Praise! to Hope n’ Change Cartoons]

“Glitch” sounds small, cute, and sort of pleasantly quirky. But a “glitch” doesn’t cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. A “glitch” doesn’t cause human suffering or potential loss of life. A “glitch” is a minor mistake – not the inevitable result of botched human planning, shirked responsibility, and the decision to put a higher priority on politics than practicality.

Rather, what we’re seeing at Healthcare.gov should more properly be described as a “man-caused disaster,” a term the Obama administration originally proposed as a euphemism for acts of terror.