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so, sue me.

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looks like blue cross finally settled their class action lawsuit

for $14 billion, 991 million dollars, and some change

when reading through my letter of settlement

i see they used class action lawsuit math to arrive at my payment

 my $3 thousand and some dollars spent on what they considered ‘relevant purchases’

(plus all of my dollars spent with them that were considered ‘irrelevant’ )

are worth an award of exactly 5 cents.

which they noted, ‘of course is less than $10 dollars’

will be donated to free clinics of michigan (a good cause)

so perhaps the donation on my behalf

will help to purchase exactly 1/2 of 1 bandaid for someone.

“i alone, could never have produced this book. i say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.”

-dave barry

 

truth or consequences.

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“where do consequences lead? depends on the escort.”

-stanislaw lem

kbj.

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Congratulations and welcome Ketanji Brown Jackson

Newest Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

We’ve been waiting for your arrival for a very long time.

 

“when sleeping women wake, mountains will move.”

-chinese proverb

 

 

 

photo credit: abc news

r.i.p. rbg.

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Ruth Bader delivers a sermon as camp Rabbi at the age of 15, at Che-Na-Wah camp in Minerva, N.Y. (Photo: Supreme Court of the United States)

 

 

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg photographed
on the occasion of her 20th anniversary on the bench in 2013.
Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post/Getty Images

not exactly.

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imagine my surprise

just before undergoing

an out-patient medical test

listening to the waiver

read aloud to me

most of it

consisting of the usual

risks, percentages, side effects

 somewhere in the middle

i heard:

“medicine is not an exact science.”

best liability statement i have ever heard.

 

“i am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.”

-alexander the great

 

 

 

image credit: aspca.org

subtlety.

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IMG_5026“it pays to be obvious,

especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

-isaac asimov