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POPSThe Other Death Panels For instance, Daschle explained, there could be a requirement that all government programs would have to abide by its recommendations and that requirement could extend to any private insurer participating in the government health insurance exchange. And as Daschle wrote, "Congress could opt to go further with the Board's recommendations. It could, for example, link the tax exclusion for health insurance to insurance that complies with the Board's recommendations." There's your Death Panel, not this stuff about end-of-life counseling. Grandma's hip replacement is on the line... how old is she now? And no, you don't get the drops for your eye infection, you get the nasty cream. Suck it up -- it's the law. Klein's piece is a well written and nuanced look at the issue of care rationing, not some wild-eyed hit job. I highly recommend reading it. http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/14/live-or-let-die
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POPSStar Wars: The Force Unleashed for Wii The Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for Wii casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice", unveiling new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. In it, players will assist the iconic villain in his quest to rid the universe of Jedi – and face decisions that could change the course of their destiny.
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POPSThere's No Klingon Word for Hello Most languages created for fictional worlds involve simple vocabulary substitutions, such as moodge for man in A Clockwork Orange, or meaningless streams of noise, like the high-pitched jabbering of the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi. Klingon is something altogether different. There is a logic behind it; a linguist doing field research among Klingon speakers would be able to work out the system and describe it as he would an exotic indigenous tongue. This is not surprising, considering that Klingon was created by Marc Okrand, a linguist whose dissertation was a grammar of a now-extinct Native American language.
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POPSJedi Atheists Apparently Atheism comes in more flavors than I thought. (Hat tip: Marginal Revolution)
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POPSTry These - You'll Like Them Everyone has their favorite Firefox hacks. Here's a nice compilation of some common ones. Maybe there's one or two you haven't tried!
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POPS'Family Guy' to parody 'Return of the Jedi' The show's previously announced parody of "The Empire Strikes Back" is titled "Something-Something-Something Dark Side." Unfortunately, Fox won't air "Dark Side" until the fall. But with Carrie Fisher playing a recurring role on "Family Guy" as Peter Griffin's boss, there's some hope around the show's campfire that she'll do a voiceover in the "Empire" spoof (not as Princess Leia, since Lois plays Leia, but as another character...)
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