The Girls spinoff no one needed

OPINION: The “porn parody” industry has become so wilfully unimaginative these days it makes its mid-’90s forerunners seem like sublime works of satire: Tits A Wonderful Life, Buffy The Vampire Layer, Pulp Friction, and the immortal classic Ass Ventura: Crack Detective, seem like relics of a simpler, sillier time. Now, it’s sufficient to simply whack “this ain’t” or “a XXX parody” fore or after the original inspiration’s title, cast some porn stars who look vaguely like their non-porn equivalents, and Bob’s your uncle’s pool maintenance man’s lonely MILF wife with a pearl necklace fetish.

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Post-HMO Health Care: Are Accountable Care Organizations the Answer?

“Remember the 1990s” retrospective lists always include Nirvana, Monica Lewinsky and Wayne’s World, but leave out another major product that defined American life in the ’90s: the health maintenance organization, or HMO — that nefarious health-insurance plan that seemed expressly designed to prevent you from seeing the doctor of your choice or receiving the treatments recommended by doctors, all under the guise of lowering costs and “improving” medical care.

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Seattle man accused of sinking his own yacht

A Seattle man has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly sinking his own yacht because of "financial pressure and frustration with the maintenance" of the vessel, authorities said. Five medical practitioners were also arrested for violations, said Malayappan Thennarasan, the top administrator of the state’s Sabarkantha district

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