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He is also a rabid anti-dentite.

 

I've spent the past five years in insurance. I've seen it happen. I've seen customers pissed because their premiums have gone up despite having no claims. But please feel free to tell me more about my industry. Later I'll tell YankeeFan he's been installing the heat coil in those machines all wrong all these years.

 

“The value system of Southern Christians and the value system of Russians are very much in line."

Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia

 

Every year through my work I sign up for a term life insurance policy, and every year those premiums increase. I suppose your industry experience suggests that's because every year my life insurance company's loss ratio is too high. Or ... perhaps ... there's another reason.

 

Insurance certainly considers the risk of the individual. So the older you get the higher your risk of death and your premiums go up. Life expectancy also gare enerally increasing. But let's say that you live in a society where life expectancy starts to drop, Are you saying you don't think your life insurance rates would increase?

 

Absolutely not. I'm arguing against the nonsensical position that over-charging relatively low-risk customers so as to subsidize relatively high-risk customers is "how insurance works."

 

Zuckerberg's weird Midwest tour is a thousand times more coy and creepy than anything Chelsea has said or done regarding elected office.

 

Two wonderful quotes from today's House Republican conference on Trumpcare (still no vote, votes not there). Rep. Kevin McCarthy's pep talk to the troops: "Now is not the time to talk about what to do or how to do it. Now is the time to do it!" Rep. Paul Cook, a "no" vote, on possible repercussions from leadership and/or Republican voters. "What are they going to do to me? Give me a haircut and ship me off to Vietnam? That's already happened."

 

Jimmy Kimmel's son, born with a heart murmur, has a pre-existing condition. Clearly not one of the people who lead good, healthy lives.

 

I was explaining why I am more comfortable with charter schools than I am with vouchers. That was the point of bringing up religious schools.

I should have been more clear in differentiating charter schools from more traditional public schools. I rushed through my response and it was sloppy. My apologies for being unclear and confusing you.

 

As a rule, I hate celebrities getting political.

He's right about this, though.