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Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies:

Posted 10:50 PM

Well, feed me Viagra® and call me stiffie, if that don't beat all! Would you have ever guessed that people would rather take a proven medication with low or no side effects, instead of some new concoction that ruins your heart or makes you commit suicide? Yeah, I would have too.

But not the good folks at Medco Health Solutions, they needed to spend money to find out.

Surely, a health insurance prescription benefit manager wouldn't be trying to tell us that new expensive drugs = bad, and that old, cheap generic drugs = good, would they? What's really surprising is that the time frame was 10 and not 17 years - 17 years being the magic date when patents run out and companies like Able Laboratories of Cranbury, NJ, can make your pills, instead of some high priced, supposedly above suspicion drug company.

And, heck, isn't all that that money better spent on studies, than on, say, for instance, lowering co-pays, or covering morning-after pills?

[please click on each word in the phrase high priced, supposedly above suspicion drug company to find 7 different articles about 7 name brand drug companies who care no more about you and your health than Able does!]

Posted 2:09 PM

Posted 4:51 PM

I'm walking through the mall this afternoon after wasting an entire day on "Jury Duty," when I hear I Can't Go For That by Hall & Oates.

You gotta love the government, with all those video tapes, and the heartfelt thank-you's from the judge at the end of the day: "It's because of people like you, who are willing to serve, that this system works...," must have been repeated about 90 times.

Yes, willing to serve, in the same way Internal Revenue is a service.

I don't exactly remember when I signed up. Seems I got a summons that said I'd be arrested, possibly imprisoned, and fined about $2,000 if I weren't willing to serve at precisely 8AM sharp on the 5th floor of the court house. I think there's still a few 'Nam vets who know all about our government, and willing to serve, not to mention a whole lot of National Guard volunteers who were supposed to be home by Christmas, but keep on finding out that Uncle Sam has unilaterally extended their volunteerism.

Now, don't be calling me some pinko bed-wetting baby; I believe jury duty is an important obligation. I just don't like euphemisms, especially when used by our government. I also don't like sitting around for an entire day, not being allowed to read or speak, all the while knowing that I will not, have not ever, and will never be impanelled. As an attorney, a victim of a crime, a civil plaintiff & defendant, a self-employed person with child custody, as well as a firmly held opinion that most people who are arrested are guilty, and that most civil cases that go all the way to trial, without settlement, means that there's enough unreasonableness on one or both sides, that I don't want to be annoyed with the petty details.... it just ain't gonna happen. There's more important things than reforming the jury system so I don't have to go, but there are lots of other reasons, that I don't have time to get into now.

So I was listening to this ...Oh-whoa-I... I would do - oo -oo anythi-ing for love... but I can't go for that, can't go for that... in the mall, and it hit me! Is the that that they can't go for the same that that Meatloaf said he won't do, even though he said [He] Would Do Anything For Love?

If so, what is that? With Meatloaf I always figured it was receiving anal sex, but with Hall & Oates I'm not sure that's the case. So, just what are those guys singing about? Would someone tell me? Those crazy kids with their loud music.

Oh, and I'm good for 3 years on the jury service thing now...

Posted 10:43 AM

Posted 1:06 PM

Oh, please, give me a break. You can't get duped into signing a contract. Either you sign it or you don't. If you don't go out and get advice independent from the guy who hands you the contract then you are an idiot, and don't deserve to even have the estate of 3 million and cash of $400,000 that you are whining about.

Further, how long did you work with this guy, under this agreement? Like 25 years? And the way I get it, John Malm wasn't just an accountant, he was your manager, dude!

Uh, huh. Working for nothing in the studio. Never got a cent, right. Greedy bastard "accountant" took it all! Listen Trent, 20% of gross for what your friend did for you is pretty much par for the course. There's not alot of managers who'll do half as much for you for less than 20%. This, from a 1996 interview

OK, a dumbass, college dropout working in a music store, who hasn't written a freakin' song in his life...

and this...

But here's the parts I love best. Reznor is actually trying to convince a jury that most managers work for 20% of the net. A jury may believe that, they believed OJ and Blake. But it ain't true. A manager always commissions the gross. A manager can only control the gross. It is the artist who determines the net; as in "I want a private jet," I wan't my own limo," "I want to stay only at Ritz-Carlton," "I want the stage to move and turn and the lights to go blah blah blah... and I come in standing on two white stallions ..."

Yeah, sure - I'll take a piece of that net... But here's the best part, again, Trent said this:

Kind of reminds me of Nigel Tufnel: "Well I'm sure I'd be more upset if I weren't so heavily sedated." Yeah, I'll bet it was a real downer, dude.

Let's recap: a drug addicted, alcoholic, bi-polar college drop out comes out of a self induced coma after 25 years of behavior that would make Caligula blush and somehow all his money is gone (except he does have 3.5 million dollars...)

Hey Trent! Happy Effin' Birthday man - I just heard you turned 40 today! Kind of like Bob DeNiro said to Charles Grodin in Midnight Run "I got two words for you:"

GROW THE EFF UP!

Posted 3:57 PM

So, we can be gouged on interest rates and late fees, and we have to keep on paying Sears even after we go bankrupt, but today the US Court Of Appeals for The District of Columbia came down on the side of the little guys.

As you may not have known, (which is the way the big guys like it) as of July 1st of this year, all new video recorders of any kind, were going to be required to have a chip that would allow network broadcasters to block you from recording programs.

Interesting how many ways and how many times these greedy SOBs have tried to get around the Betmax decision.

Congratulations to Judge Harry Edwards and the DC Court of Appeals. Said Edwards to the FCC shill for Hollywood: "You've gone too far. Are washing machines next?"

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