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November 20, 2008 08:50 AM

Medical insurers propose a new health care plan: they will not turn anyone down for coverage, as long as everybody is required to have it. Thorny questions linger regarding affordability and enforcement of a mandate, and Barack Obama has no comment on the industry proposal. [New York Times]
The Wall Street Journal has a comment on Max Baucus' healthcare proposal -- one that "closely resembles the one Mr. Obama campaigned on": Sucky sucky. [Wall Street Journal]
The genome for the woolly mammoth has been sequenced, so scientists can finally figure out how to use Robin Williams' stem cells to cure Parkinson's. [Information Week]
Poland still wants their missile-defense system, but they aren't going to nag Barack Obama about it. [Washington Post]
The liberal Democrat Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke out against global warming at a meeting of US governors and their overseas counterparts. [Reuters]
Unemployment claims are the highest they've been in 16 years -- 25 if you consider the rolling 4-week average. Prosperity! [MarketWatch]

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Your Father's Day Nice Things Is Just Ugly Ties All The Way Down

Caution: There WILL be dad jokes.

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'Miga and Carlos' by Wonkette Operative 'Chica'

It's Father's Day, which means it's time for Yr Dok Zoom and his son to go to brunch and check out the downtown Boise Father's Day Car Show so we can ooh and ah over the very same Corvettes 'n' Mustangs 'n' lovingly-restored classic cars that are there every year, and I will probably once again point at the '68 Beetle converted to run on electricity and say, "Oh look, a Voltswagen!" Traditions matter. (Kid Zoom is 22, so I may also/instead meet him for cocktails later like grown up human people.)

Don't worry about any deep thoughts on the Meaning of Fatherhood here -- we're just going to enjoy the goofy side of dadding, which as far as I'm concerned is the best thing I've done with my time. Especially since my role model for parenting was the unnamed Dad from "Calvin and Hobbes."

As any fool knows, ice rises to the top of liquids because it's cold, and just wants to be closer to the sun so it can warm up. It's all in the book you get when you become a father.

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