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Interesting tidbit: He filmed his audition tape for House from his hotel room during the shooting of Flight of the Phoenix.

You can find it on YouTube.

Maybe not directly...

Guess I'm out of the loop. Who's Elmo?

If you're unfamiliar with the history of the Donner Party it's a fascinating, if gruesome, read. Of the 83 members of the Donner Party who were trapped in the mountains, 45 survived to reach California. Some became quite successful there.

There were 90 wagons in the train and they were trying a newly conceived route to California that obviously didn't pan out well.

Imagine taking a wrong turn in the wilderness and finding that you've led 90 wagons into hard terrain and deep woods. They were at times literally having to cut trees down to clear a path through dense woods for miles and miles. Horrible, slow going, and hard work.

Couldn't find the date?

Did you check the EXIF data?

That's right. For a company greater than 50 employees the insurance companies charge a group rate that is the same for everyone. Fewer than 50 and each employee is billed on their and/or their family's merits.

Because I have fewer than 50 employees, most of my family employees use their spouse's insurance from larger company than mine. And there's little I can do about it.

For my small business I'm just as screwed over as the employee. If I hire a guy I can't (and don't want to) ask him him or her health questions, but because I pay half of my employee's insurance I'm hiring with an unknown cost component. That employee might have a costly pre-existing condition for all I know.

I'm in Oklahoma. They might not chase a motorcycle here, but a car. For sure.

In what universe is this paradise?

Heh. What do you do on weekends?

As an employer I would LOVE to be shed of this system. I have no reason to be involved in the health care of my employees, and given the state of health care in America there is literally no upside for my business. It's all bad.

Unfortunately our system requires it, though. If I didn't offer health care and instead just increased the base salary I wouldn't be competitive. People would think I was trying to pull a fast-one on them, and few people in America know how to get health care on their own. It's a mess.

Okay. For elections pre-Trump you might twist my arm into half-assedly agreeing with you.

But if you think that now you're one of:

1. A genuine idiot
2. MAGA cultist
3. Russian Propagandist

My wife is there.

She's gotten two knee replacements this year and is scheduled for a hip replacement before the end of the year. And last night I reminded her she's been meaning to go to a dermatologist.