nosugrefneb » what? http://nosugrefneb.org (benferguson) Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Texts From MA, Issue 2 http://nosugrefneb.org/1923 http://nosugrefneb.org/1923#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:01:23 +0000 nosugrefneb http://nosugrefneb.com/?p=1923

What u get 4 A? Ban republic 40%off today PLEASE.dont make all her gifts PRACTICAL!:-*

Everything [sic].

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Verisön or at&t?

Out of the blue. What? She can barely use a cell phone. How does she end up typing an umlaut?

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]]> http://nosugrefneb.org/1921/feed 2 Wait. I live where? http://nosugrefneb.org/1772 http://nosugrefneb.org/1772#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:27:47 +0000 nosugrefneb http://nosugrefneb.com/?p=1772 I live in the South Loop area of Chicago. South Loop. Have for five years now. Other names have come and gone and been bandied about—Near South, SoLo, Central Station—but it’s the South Loop.

Google, however, now seems to think I live in a mystical place called Park Row. Just a few days ago, I lived in plain old Chicago, but now I live in Park Row.

What the hell is Park Row?

The most disturbing part: Yahoo, through Flickr’s geotags, has been calling it Park Row for as long as I can remember. What exactly is going on with Google?

]]> http://nosugrefneb.org/1772/feed 0 Nonsequiturville http://nosugrefneb.org/828 http://nosugrefneb.org/828#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:01:49 +0000 nosugrefneb http://nosugrefneb.com/weblog/?p=828 From a letter yesterday by Boadie Dunlop, MD, to the New York Times:

President Obama writes, ‘I don’t believe anyone should be in charge of your health care decisions but you and your doctor.’ If he truly believes this statement, then why has he also stated: ‘Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller,’ and that physicians do unnecessary tonsillectomies because it makes them more money?

What?

This is a perfect example of how rational people (I’m assuming here) are serving up quotes from politicians out of their proper context and making arguments against them—straw man arguments. Clearly, Obama is not, according to this isolated statement, making treatment decisions for surgical candidates.

(Then, as a matter of course, he throws in the inevitable accusation of lies for good measure.

It is very difficult to believe that the president is being fully open and honest about his goals in the reform of health care delivery.

For the record, Dr. Dunlop is a psychiatrist and an expert on anxiety disorders.)

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