If you’re as depressed as I am by the roll-out of the ACA, you probably don’t want to read more about it. But this post is really helpful in understanding whether the push for a new law to allow people to keep their basic plans can work or not. My sense is it cannot. Once this thing is picked apart, it will unravel. The law is already reeling from its malfunctioning website; allowing escape clauses for people with sub-standard insurance at lower prices would almost certainly push it toward the much-dreaded death-cycle.
So here are a few items that are not about this nightmare: the decline of teenage sex; the necessary contradictions of a conservative in politics; the synthesis of Pope Francis and his promise for a less fractious church; and the tripod dog club, of which I am soon to become a fully-fledged member.
I’m also riveted by our new thread on the reality of serious weight loss – today’s focus being on the impact on sex. Where else would you read about that?
The most popular post of the day was Julia Ioffe’s righteous screed against vaccine denialists – including liberals. Second up was my take on Richard Cohen’s infelicitous inter-racial phraseology. TNC remains a must-read on that.
Bonus cheer-you-up Dishness: wet bears.
See you in the morning.
(Photo: A woman looks up at a colorful tree in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on November 13, 2013 in London, England. Autumn’s colours are showing later in the season this year due to a record cold spring. By Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.)
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