ugly should be covered by insurance



Now, in New York State, insurance companies can no longer deny transgender New Yorkers the right for gender reassignment surgeries and other treatments.

Other states with similar rulings include: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont, and also Washington, D.C.

A transgender is a person who is non-conforming to their sex that was assigned to them at birth. Transgender is independent of sexual orientation. The terms gender and sex have been explained thoroughly in academic literature. Sex is what an individual acquires by birth so it is physiological or biological. Gender, however, is a category a person gets assigned to by themselves or others.



OK. Elective sex change surgery for transgenders is now covered by insurance. If that's the case, what about non-sex-change cosmetic surgery? Like gender, what if "beauty" is assigned to yourself? What if someone is ugly but acts like a beautiful person? Someone who is ugly but thinks of themselves as beautiful? Let's call them Transbeauties. Shouldn't THEY also be covered to undergo surgery to physically match the outer person with the inner person, like transgenders? Why is only transgender surgery covered? Shouldn't surgery in order to transform someone from one thing they are into another thing they want to be, in this case ugly into beautiful, also be covered by insurance?

If state governments are going to force insurance companies to cover elective sex change surgery shouldn't they also force insurance companies to cover "Ugly Betty" surgery?


And no, I am not transgender-phobic. I was writing a satirical literary essay. If you have no sense of humor you didn't laugh when you read the essay. And if you don't know what satire is, you probably didn't laugh either.





my car has been recalled



"Ford Motor Company is recalling roughly 65,000 Fusion, Fusion Hybrid, and Fusion Energi sedans from the 2014 and 2015 model years. According to a statement from the automaker, the recall is meant to fix a software problem that could allow vehicles to roll away under certain conditions."

Roll away??? My freaking car can "roll away"? That's just plain scary!

Why on earth would ANY car manufacturer be allowed to sell a vehicle in the United States that is DEFECTIVE and DANGEROUS??? Don't the car makers check the fucking things before they foist them on innocent and unaware consumers? Obviously not.

Ralph Nader, in his book, "Unsafe At Any Speed", was correct. And his book was written in 1965, 50 years ago!

Defective and dangerous vehicles allowed to be sold to consumers. And allowed to transport your family and children. That's just plain wrong.

Where is the government when we need it? Out to lunch.





think




The Thinking Cap

Everyone has one. Few ever seem to put it on.





eat like a mouse



"... when we eat affects our well being as much as what we eat. The latest study, by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and published this week in the journal Cell Metabolism, fleshes out the limits and possibilities of using the clock to prevent or reduce obesity and to improve health.

The experiment showed that mice which were fed a high-fat diet, but allowed access to food for only 12 hours per day, were healthier and slimmer than mice given access to the same food for the whole day, according to the Telegraph.

Researchers also saw that skipping midnight snacks improved blood sugar and cholesterol levels in the mice, as well as reversed the effects of diabetes. Researchers plan to conduct the same experiment with humans, BBC News reported."



Yet another scientific eating regimen for better health. I dub this one the "Mice Diet". 12 hours a day food intake? I eat breakfast at 7 AM. So I can't eat anything after 7 PM? That means I would have to give up my tasty 9-10 PM popsicle snacks? I could -- but I don't WANT to! I already gave up almost everything: Fat. Sugar. Smoking. Drinking. Partying. Gambling. Staying up late. Younger women. Anger.

How should we eat? What kind of a diet/eating plan should we maintain? High-fat or low-fat? Low carbs or high carbs? Lots of fruits and veggies, SOME fruits and vegetables or No fruits and vegetables? Meat or no meat? Calories matter or calories don't matter? Eat small meals all day or eat for only half the day? Lots of diets. Lots of contradictions. And all of them claim better health. They ALL can't work!

Me? I'm sticking with my "balanced diet"; i.e. some of everything, not too much of anything.

And popsicles.