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Archive for February 20th, 2004
The Viagra Prank
AMERIMED: Thank you for calling AmeriMed, I’m Evelyn, how can I help you?
JOHN HARGRAVE: Hi, I recently put in an order for a prescription, and I was denied. The response you guys sent me was actually rather rude.
AM: All right … what were you ordering?
JH: Viagra.
AM: OK, let’s see. [Pause] It looks like it was denied because the doctor couldn’t find the medical necessity, and probably because of all the excess medications you’re taking.
JH: Such as?
AM: Ah … you do smoke marijuana?
JH: Only in the shower.
AM: Prednisone, Azmacort, Alupent … do you have asthma?
JH: Only since I started smoking marijuana.
AM: Well, [Viagra] is one medication he would prefer … he would prefer you see a doctor. It’s for your benefit, it’s not an insult, it’s simply that he feels that for your health, you should see a local doctor.
JH: But your web site says that AmeriMed was founded to help me avoid “an embarrassing conversation with my personal physician.”
AM: Uh huh, but that’s if it’s approved … this physician is not going to approve it.
JH: Is there another physician we could ask?
AM: No, we are very strict in our regulations, and we have to ask that you go see a local doctor.
JH: Look, Evelyn. I need a longer erection in my penis. Can you help me with this?
AM: I wish that I could help you, but I can’t. I suggest you see a local doctor.
JH: Don’t you understand that I have a condition? I am not well!
AM: Sir, I …
JH: I can sometimes only make love for one hour. Do you know how embarrassing that is? I mean, you’re a woman. You know what I’m talking about here, don’t you?
AM: I do understand, however again, I can’t help you. You’re going to have to see your local doctor.
JH: I don’t believe this. Evelyn, listen to me: I can only sustain an erection for one hour, two hours tops.
AM: I realize that, and I don’t mean to be insensitive. Again, I’m … this isn’t meant as an insult to you personally. We just can’t help you, unless you can get a prescription from your local doctor.
JH: Would you deny medication to a dying child?
AM: I don’t…
JH: Well, my penis is like a dying child.
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There’s a review of Watership Down up at Booklinker–the fact that it mentions us has absolutely nothing with the fact that I’m linking them, however.
I swear.
Is the “laexaminer” account, once a ubiquitous presence at many news sites, losing its effectiveness?
Lately I’ve had the laexaminer/laexaminer login turned down at a number of newspapers, as well as it’s close cousins, laexaminer/lax and cypherpunk/cypherpunk.
Here’s a list of the sites I’ve found that no longer accept any of the logins above
The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, the Orlando Sentinel, and the L.A. Times.
It’s still working at the New York Times, but given that evidently some papers have already caught on, for how long?
Ken, Matt? A nation turns its lonely, and now less well-informed, eyes to you.
The FBI is hiring 900 intelligence analysts, at pay rates ranging from $33,431 to $108,335.
However, they might be shooting themselves in the foot.
We want the best athlete possible,” said Maureen A. Baginski, executive assistant director for intelligence. She has been assigned by FBI Director Robert Mueller to overhaul the bureau’s analytical staff with new hires, training and development.
Nothing against athletes, mind you, but isn’t likely the FBI could find a better class of analyst if they look at people who are sitting down most of the time, rather than frittering their life away running marathons and the like?
Not that either qualification would prevent me from serving, mind you, though the fact that the FBI jobs list is currently down might.
So they might need a sysadmin as well.
Excellent! Now, if we can just get someone to convince Mick Jagger that he shold be replaced by a fresh-faced youth during all public appearances, then the world will be a brighter place.
FoH Hraka ( and coworker of Kehaar….CWoK?) Blog on The Run is mention in an article from Editor & Publisher on journalists who blog.
Aside from offering a list of journalist bloggers, the article also gives evidence that not even at Editor and Publisher is the editing bulletproof.
Of course, towing the company line in your spare time doesn’t sit well with every staff journalist.
There’s also this howler of a quote from an editor at the New York Times.
“We’re The New York Times,” says Apcar. “With our leadership position in the industry comes a burden of complete transparency.”
Perhaps it’s an unshouldered burden.
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Silflay Hraka: Fine with the Red Chinese, but definitely out of bounds as far as SonicWALL Integrated Content Filtering is concerned.
At least we’re in good company.
More crushing of dissent in FortressAmerika. How dare the powers that be force a well-meaning teacher to apologize for issuing a politically correct, and seemingly well deserved, denunciation of a white male?
A UNC-Chapel Hill instructor has apologized after a student said during a class discussion that he opposed homosexuality — and found himself singled out by the teacher for hate speech.
In an e-mail message sent Feb. 6 to her “Literature and Cultural Diversity” students, the lecturer, Elyse Crystall, wrote, “[W]hat we heard [T]hursday at the end of class constitutes ‘hate speech’ and is completely unacceptable. [I]t has created a hostile environment.”
Crystall went on to name the student, identified as Tim, and said he was a perfect example of the topic of discussion during class: privilege.
She referred to Tim as “a white, heterosexual, [C]hristian male” who “can feel entitled to make violent, heterosexist comments and not feel marked or threatened or vulnerable.”
Crystall apologized to the class Monday, and university officials said they’re monitoring the class to ensure students’ free speech.
Doesn’t everyone already know that any controversial speech that issues from the lips of Whitey is hate speech by definition? Why, a protected minority might have gotten their feelings hurt! And what about the teacher’s opinion that “Tim,” (if that is indeed his real name, and not a pseudonym adopted out of a cowardly desire to prevent his re-education at the hands of his moral and intellectual betters) is a hate-mongering heterosexualist of the worst sort? Why isn’t her free speech important?
Sure, she’s in a position of power, but she’s a woman (an oppressed species of humyn!!!!!), so in all reality “‘Tim” should have been forced to apologize to her! And perform community service! For differently-abled, different-gendered, differently-pigmented Vegans for Peace! That would teach him to open his mouth!
Yet of course a bunch of white men jumped to the what-really-should-be-a-felonious student’s defense, instead of the real injured party?s!
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, a Farmville Republican, called for state Attorney General Roy Cooper to look into whether the professor broke any state laws. Jones also is asking the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to investigate.
“Had Ms. Crystall substituted the word ‘black’ for ‘white,’ ‘homosexual’ for ‘heterosexual’ or ‘Muslim’ for ‘Christian,’ she would have been suspended or fired immediately,” Jones wrote in a letter to UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser. “Instead, the student in question was forced to go to an online message board to defend himself to his classmates, his academic future left in the hands of the likes of Ms. Crystall.”
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In a letter to Jones on Thursday, Moeser said the university took the incident very seriously and would see to it that students in the class are treated fairly and not penalized by their views.
“At Carolina, our responsibility is to remain a vibrant intellectual community in which all viewpoints can be comfortably expressed and heard in an atmosphere of respect,” he wrote. “Universities exist to promote the free exchange of ideas. As a public university, we at Carolina have a special responsibility to vigorously protect the right of everyone to be heard.”
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English Department Chairman James Thompson said he had spoken with the student and the lecturer on several occasions, persuaded Crystall to apologize, and appointed a faculty member to monitor the class for the rest of the semester. That person occasionally will sit in and make sure grading is fair, Thompson said.
This cannot stand! People should march around partially nude in protest of this abject silencing of a correct opinion! (Deity! They’re all white too!) Until this administration is forced to apologize for the forcing of this apology, vegans should go on a hunger strike, anarchists should anarchize, and animal activists should throw vials of realistic fake blood at any building suspected of containing leather within it!
AND THAT”S ALL OF THEM!!!!!
Our inconsequential actions, theoretically united, can never be wholly defeated!
Now sing with me!
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day