Standing in line to see Kennedy
Big Lebowski Last Supper
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Since my name is Jeff Bridges and I start divinity school tomorrow, this was a required reblog.
I find it a perpetual struggle – to collect more minutes in a day that matter. More minutes I would be proud of or better for instead of those that evaporate in the pursuit of easy comfort… I don’t think it’s about avoiding pleasure or what makes us happy – it’s about not wasting all of our energy on what offers vapid gratification instead of the overwhelming joy and fortification that comes through purpose, effort and depth.
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sunnynsassy commenting on on a quote by Henry Miller. Amen, sister. Preach on. |
Great little five minute blurb on how to work a crowd.
(via Lifehacker)
1. It’s all socialized medicine out there.
In some ways, health care is less “socialized” overseas than in the United States. Almost all Americans sign up for government insurance (Medicare) at age 65. In Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, seniors stick with private insurance plans for life.
2. Overseas, care is rationed through limited choices or long lines.
Studies by the Commonwealth Fund and others report that many nations — Germany, Britain, Austria — outperform the United States on measures such as waiting times for appointments and for elective surgeries.
3. Foreign health-care systems are inefficient, bloated bureaucracies.
U.S. health insurance companies have the highest administrative costs in the world; they spend roughly 20 cents of every dollar for nonmedical costs, such as paperwork, reviewing claims and marketing.
4. Cost controls stifle innovation
Many of the wonder drugs promoted endlessly on American television, including Viagra, come from British, Swiss or Japanese labs. Overseas, strict cost controls actually drive innovation. In the United States, an MRI scan of the neck region costs about $1,500. In Japan, the identical scan costs $98.
5. Health insurance has to be cruel.
Foreign health insurance plans exist only to pay people’s medical bills, not to make a profit. The United States is the only developed country that lets insurance companies profit from basic health coverage.
Thus, the best strategy, from the perspective of maximising shareholder value, is probably for customers to know as little as possible about the personal opinions of a company’s boss.
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| — | The Economist on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s [asinine] oped in the WSJ. |
Vacations.com waxes nostalgic about the glory days of flight with a 50 picture retrospective:
When the stewardesses resembled beauty pageant contestants, when pilots seemed likes heroes, and when flying still seemed to be an adventure - to remind us, of just how things once were.
These days I get excited when they still give out actual peanuts. Think any airlines will dust off those retro uniforms, a la the NFL/MLB?
(via BootsnAll)
Some great advice on “Personal branding, integrity and blogging” from Modite. In short, avoid posting anything that doesn’t reflect your values or that you wouldn’t feel comfortable standing by if it somehow went public.
I’m off to edit my tumblr now…
For the church to lack love is for the church to lack everything. No heresy could conceivably be worse! Until the culture at large instinctively identifies us as loving, humble servants, and until the tax collectors and prostitutes of our day are beating down our doors to hang out with us as they did with Jesus, we have every reason to accept our culture’s judgment of us as correct. We are indeed more pharisaic than we are Christlike.
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| — | Greg Boyd (via azspot:sunnynsassy) |
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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| — | C.S. Lewis (via psychotherapy:blahyadablah:sunnynsassy) |
