Oh Crap, We're Really Screwed Now

The New York Times furthers the depression we feel here @ Just Another Blog (From L. A.)™. Expect any posting in the near future to be dependant on whether or not we can get a computer @ the library.

The disability process is complex, and the standard for approval has, from the inception of the program in the 1950s, been intentionally strict to prevent malingering and drains on the treasury. But it is also inevitably subjective in some cases, like those involving mental illness or pain that cannot be tested.

According to Tucker Carlson, the mere fact that we have a web log makes us nuts. And we have other evidence that we are not normal (or even average).

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, just a few days before the hearing, Mrs. Wild woke up to find her son gone. On his desk lay his watch, his ring and a bullet. On that Thursday, Mrs. Wild, 55, got a call at work from their lawyer. “I just wanted to give you the good news,” she said he told her. “Somehow the judge has already approved the disability, it’s a done deal, Mark’s got it.” Two hours later, a deputy sheriff and a chaplain arrived to say that hunters had found Mark Wild’s body in the woods, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

We can assure you that we won't be the only ones shuffling off this mortal coil if we decide we can no longer take it.