Cheeky Robots

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In Oregon, brisk competition [from Obamacare] will mean real choice for consumers. Starting in October, a 40-year-old resident of Portland can choose between one insurer charging $169 a month or another asking $422 for the same plan. When these rates were first posted not long ago, some of the companies requested a do-over so they could submit lower rates. Yes, lower rates. So much for a government takeover.
Timothy Egan, writing about the coming implementation of Obamacare, “Million-Anecdote Baby,” The New York Times, June 14, 2013. Egan says of Obamacare: “The early indications are that most Americans will be pleasantly surprised.”

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Driggs is his name and he’s sort of got a sad story but he makes his own problems, as most monkeys do. In every movie it seems you go to now and TV sitcoms and everywhere you look there’s sort of a gratuitous monkey. And I wanted a monkey with a back story. I wanted a monkey who is a complete character, who had a literary role in the book.

Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen talking on “Fresh Air” about the title character in his new novel, “Bad Monkey.”

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