lindywest
Lindy West
lindywest

Most of the nails were already in that coffin when I saw them on Couple's Therapy and Doug simply couldn't give her any space. He was so clingy and needy and I told my husband that the first taste of freedom she got she was going to be out of that marriage so fast The Flash would wonder what whizzed past him. Read more

I'm paying more for health insurance next year, probably because of the ACA. I'm more than happy to do this, if it means more people can get better coverage. A particular colleague of mine is beside himself because he has to pay more next year. The kicker is that he and his family cost the system a *lot* more than Read more

By this logic, men should be paying a metric fuckton(ne) more in taxes because they commit more violent crimes, destroy more property and declare wars than women do, on average. Read more

I apologize in advance for the rant. Read more

Did you miss the fact that I am a "Health Care Analyst"? I have worked for health insurance companies. I get how insurance works. I did not go into the full process of how rating/risk adjustment/pools works but in the industry we know how rating just on demographic factors is less than ideal. I helped test new models Read more

Playadel2 made a really good rebuttal to this up top in the comments: Read more

I'm so sick of this bullshit. And I'm sick of reading it on my facebook feed. It is all I can do to not scream at every fucking person, "HEY ASSHOLES, GUESS WHAT?? YOU CLAIM TO BE MY FRIENDS AND YET, YOU ARE PERFECTLY HAPPY TO CONTINUE THE SYSTEM THAT PRETTY MUCH ALLOWED MY HUSBAND TO DIE DUE TO A LACK OF AFFORDABLE Read more

I commandeered Halloween this year because he wasn't really interested in picking a costume. Chucky it is!

Zombie Hester Prynne. At first I was going to just be Hester Prynne. . . but zombie make up is fun makeup. I also chopped my dress short because it's more comfortable. Deal with it, etc etc. Sorry for the questionable photo quality—- quick iPhone snaps in low light are. . . not the best.

Our pup, Lusi, is keeping the faith all day. Got anything to confess?

One almost never sees "dalmatian" spelled correctly. I am grateful to you. Read more

And carved an IKEA monkey pumpkin.

The fucked up thing about J. Bieber spray painting walls in Bogotá, Colombia is the fucking double standar that the fucking goverment has. Just a year ago a 16 year old boy was shot dead by a police officer because he was spray painting a wall in Bogotá... And then, the police officer tried to cover up the murder.

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Health care analyst here. Here's some detail on why John Stossel is stupid. Read more

I think you meant to say that social programs are always loved by those with a heart, and always loathed by those who put a wallet where their heart was supposed to be. Read more

This is the best damn rant I've seen on here in a while. Maybe it's just because I hate John Stossel, but the third-from-last paragraph is one of the most perfectly worded pro-healthcare arguments I've ever read. Read more

I'm both outraged by his asshattery, and distracted by that baby picture. Is that what unbilical cords really look like? Read more