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l like mailing you the check in fact i might feel like mailing you the check for a while i ve got plenty of stamps ponders again this seems stupid to me why would a major corporation incent its customers to cost it money i have to assume nicor has the usual cadre of bright over paid mbas sitting around thinking of ways the company can rack up profits big enough to pay its c level execs their obscene salaries while still keeping its shareholders in gucci loafers so i have to wonder if maybe there s some other motivation for this system so i thought about the business model about what circumstances might push someone to choose to pay 3 50 gee could it be this there are some people who have a hard time affording their utility bills and so they have to pay them at the last minute maybe after they ve gotten a disconnection notice just the sorts of people who maybe don t have access to online banking options therefore they have no choice but to pay the convenience fee as just one more of the myriad insults that the poor suffer at the hands of the rich couldn t be that could it posted in uncategorized 1 comment lucky bastard november 19 2013 by dan o shea woke up before 5am today too much to do too much on my mind so going back to sleep was out of the question figured i might was well get up get a jump on things maybe back my to do list far enough into its corner that i ll sleep better tonight hungry though and it s one of those cold almost winter mornings that had me aching for something more than just the usual bowel of cheerios so i pawed through the pantry and saw the box of malt o meal made me smile what my mom used to make sometimes on cold mornings like this so i whipped up a bowl of that put the brown sugar in it like she used to maybe a little more than mom would have approved of mom s been dead since just before the millennium turned over yet in that weird billy pilgrim way life sometimes has she was with me for breakfast dad s been gone five years now too but that sense of him being here too and i guess he was i guess they were my mind often ain t right tends toward melancholy always has and i can t really say why i grew up with every advantage material sure nice houses nice clothes good schools but also always knowing i was loved always there was nothing complicated about that nothing conflicted no sense of sacrifice being lorded over me just loved not in that dutiful parental way that sometimes implies but like they were honestly glad i was around like they didn t just love me they liked me been a rough few years for me not going to get into that there s stuff that just ain t your business stuff some of you know some of you don t but the last month or so also the sense that maybe there are second chances so the melancholy thing i ll live with it we all have our natures but it wouldn t resonate the way it does if it didn t have this deep well of contentment to play off of the memories i have of my childhood the memories of being loved in an uncomplicated way that wanted nothing from me but my company nothing for me but my happiness saw on facebook today where a guy i barely know lost his father yesterday from his posts my guess is he felt about his dad more of less the way i felt about mine my first impulse was to say i m sorry it s what we say but sorry for what fathers die mothers die or at least they do if life works out the way it should if we re lucky it s hard to lose them if we re really lucky then it s really hard takes a little distance i guess before you realize what a lucky bastard you are maybe i ve finally got enough posted in uncategorized 9 comments greed is good october 16 2013 by dan o shea it s official peeps book number two has a cover and it s another beauty i thought the exhibit a folk had caught lightning in a bottle with penance but the cover for greed is even better seriously if there is a publisher out there consistently coming up with better cover art than the angry robot family i d like to know who they are have you seen the cover of chuck wendig s blackbirds or chris holm s collector series or any of the titles by my fellow exhibit a authors for my devoted followers yes all three of you and we ll be having the annual appreciation dinner in the corner booth at denny s soon watch for your invites greed may throw you you saw the book go through its first draft live on the blog as the gravity of mammon which was actually a shorter version of my first working title the inexorable gravity of mammon after we d settled on penance as the title of my debut though the title was cut down to mammon the thinking being we d brand the series with one word biblical sounding titles ran into some concern that too many readers may be unfamiliar with the word mammon though so we ve settled on greed and those who raised that concern may have a point when i ran this post through spell check it kept lighting up mammon for the record matthew 6 24 from the king james bible no man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot serve god and mammon be that as it may greed works just fine still one word still biblical one of the seven deadlies after all after you ve read the book i m betting you ll agree you may recall my excitement at the penance cover because of its connection to chicago s history and that was fitting because the city s history played a major role in that novel i m excited about the cover of greed for another reason when i saw marina towers the round building for you non chicagoans i couldn t help but think of the climatic scene from steve mcqueen s last movie the hunter if it s good enough for steve mcqueen it s good enough for me watch for greed right after christmas when you re looking to cash out all those bookstore gift cards you asked for to celebrate my new cover i m giving away an autographed copy of penance just leave a comment on this post in a week or so i ll drop all the names in an empty highball glass and pick a winner posted in uncategorized 17 comments obamacare and the terrorists formerly known as republicans september 26 2013 by dan o shea so i don t blog for a couple of months then when i finally decide to break radio silence it s about obamacare sure why not go ahead and alienate at least half the population no matter what i say anyway here s the thing the premium numbers are in first year numbers anyway all along a big part of the republican narrative has been that premiums under obamacare would be far too expensive but the national average comes in at 328 a month i ve got pretty good health insurance through my employer and i pay 314 28 a month and that s after what my employer chips in not to mention that under obamacare health insurers are required to cover a wide range of preventative care items that insurers are not required to cover currently and they also can t disqualify people because of pre existing conditions all in it looks like a fair deal here s another thing with obamacare in place i don t have to base my employment decisions on health insurance anymore and i ve had to do that for the last twenty some years i ve got kids two of whom have disabilities you add up drugs therapy doctor s visits those disabilities get real damn expensive drop out of an employer plan and those disabilities turn into pre existing conditions that happens not only would i end up paying at least twice what i pay now in premiums just to have coverage the coverage i get wouldn t include the bulk of the medical expenses i rack up the employment thing is a two way street another scare tactic that the right has been throwing around is that employers are going to stop offering coverage never mind that the legislation actually will force more of them to offer coverage or else pay a penalty but suppose they do if you can buy coverage on your own for more or less what you d pay if you were buying it through your employer then what difference does it make let me make one thing real clear here i m not bashing employers the way the healthcare system has evolved in this country has put too many of them in a real trick bag for a variety of very complex reasons health care in the us costs way more than it does in other countries and that cost keeps going up faster than the rate of inflation so the cost of providing insurance as an employee benefit keeps going up too to stay competitive in the talent market employers have to figure out a way to afford that i don t blame them for wondering how your health care became their problem if eventually obamacare ends up weaning employees off the employer tit if it ends up making your health care decisions independent of your employment decisions i say that s a good thing good for you and good for your employer and here s another thing if in the long run obamacare ends up defragmenting the heath care market in the us if it ends up providing an overarching structure that will finally allow market forces to force some rationality and consistency on to health care pricing then our ridiculously expensive and byzantine health care industry might get less expensive simply because it will get less byzantine yet another thing the name see it s really called the affordable care act the tea party types dubbed it obamacare in the mistaken belief that their reflexive antipathy to every action taken by the black guy with the funny name was universally held and that by tying the plan directly to the man they could insure its defeat didn t work out that way ironic really the basic design of obamacare was the product of the heritage foundation a right wing think tank it was famously instituted in a very similar form in massachusetts by a republican governor mitt romney and why not the inexorably intertwined issues of health care coverage for all americans and our irrationally expensive health care system have been begging for an effective policy response for decades if obamacare works and the early signs are that it just might it will go down in history as one of the most important public policy initiatives in the post war era it could have been a policy that the right claimed as its own or at least one of bipartisan lineage instead the far right has given full credit to the man they hate the most one final thing like it or not obamacare is the law it was passed by the house and the senate it was signed by the president it was ruled constitutional by the supreme court the right doesn t like it everybody understands that the tea party wing that has hijacked the republican party has attempted over and over to repeal the law without success they did their best to make the last presidential election a referendum on obamacare they lost unable to scuttle obamacare through the democratic process they are now threatening to shut down the government and even default on our nation s obligations every penny of which congress had to vote to incur in an effort to try to stop obamacare they are willing to risk tipping a still fragile economic recovery back into recession because they can t get their way at the ballot box they are holding an economic gun to your head we have a name for people who try to frighten populations into complying with the will of the minority by threatening their well being we used to call them terrorists now i guess we can start calling them republicans posted in uncategorized 8 comments a big boost from a little book mouse july 11 2013 by dan o shea reading to the book mouse crowd in my tough guy pink shirt one of the first things i remember crime uber agent stacia decker telling me was to make friends with indie book stores how they were the ones who were going to hand sell your books and could really make a difference in attracting new readers last night was a perfect example of that just before my book launched i got an email from the book mouse an indie in ottawa il ottawa s a town of 18 000 or so about a hundred miles southwest of chicago located on the banks of the illinois river the site of the first lincoln douglas debate for you history fans out there they asked if i d be willing to come down for one of their author dinners for these they sell tickets the ticket gets you a copy of the book and dinner with the author at a local restaurant you eat socialize and after dinner do a reading and answer questions i said i d love to but i was wondering how much luck they d have selling tickets for a debut author nobody s heard of the dinner was last night turns out they do pretty well the dinner was at a place called hank s farm a charming rustic joint in a converted barn on illinois 71 i was a little unsure on travel times and erred on the side of caution so i got there a little early just as greg the host from the bookshop was setting up in a private dining room the u shaped table looked like it was set for about 30 i had visions of sitting in this expanse of plates and glasses with maybe four or five people but by 5 00 the place had filled up i had a delightful dinner talking with the people seated near me i wish i d been able to visit more with some of the other guests some of them had already read penance some of them were just picking up their copy that night i learned a lot about ottawa and environs and now i really need to read up on these murdered nurses at the local state park after the meal and a gracious introduction from greg i got up to do my reading i was a little worried the chapter i usually use at my readings is pretty raw the first sentence reads jesus stosh i knew you d stick your dick in a light socket if you thought you d get away with it but this is fucking nuts the thing is the crowd tended a little older and a little female i warned them that i was going to use some bad language and that there would be blood i had visions of a mass exodus of disgusted solid citizens filing out after stopping to see greg to demand refunds but they were great they seemed to enjoy the reading and they asked some pretty insightful questions for probably half an hour i had a wonderful time and unless they were just exceedingly polite it seems the folks who turned out did too talked with greg a little before i left the book mouse had sold 30 copies of penance as part of the dinner and he thought at least 15 or 20 copies independent of that sold them largely i think because greg liked the book and had been pushing it he had a pile of stock for me to sign before i left so it looks like he s planning on selling more but so far maybe 50 copies out of a small indie in a town of 18 000 in rural illinois forget pimps it s tough out there for a writer these days we need all the friends we can get i have to count the book mouse as a very good friend indeed posted in uncategorized 4 comments older posts follow me on twitter tweets by dboshea email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email 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