Author: Erik Williams

This is actually honest to goodness advice given from the Electoral Commission for the general election going in right now. The utter irony of it is palpable and might well explain recent results of elections and referenda better than the pundits have! ;) —- Suppose you've been drinking - can you still vote? Yes. You can vote if you are drunk or under the influence of drugs, unless you are disruptive.

In the five years of being on Marketplace coverage as an individual, I’ve never had a year where the new plan: Was the same plan as the old one. Every single plan I’ve ever had was withdrawn at the end of the year it was introduced. You can’t even get low-deductible Platinum plans in the Raleigh area anymore!Had a larger network than the old one. This year was particularly bad as the statewide network was…

So I'm considering which of the utterly depressing offerings available on the Healthcare Marketplace is the one that I should select for the "World's Most Appallingly Expensive Flu Jab" (tm) and the first two options were interesting, to say the least. One has a deductible/out-of-pocket maximum of $8,150 and the other one is a HSA-eligible HDHP with a deductible/out-of-pocket maximum of $6,900. In all other respects, the Summary Plan Description shows these two plans are…

The presser acting Chief of Staff Mulvaney gave today concerning the ongoing scandal vis-a-vis the quid pro quo of aid to Ukraine in exchange for dirt on the Bidens was certainly an interesting affair. He actually admits that there was a coercive element to the decision to withhold aid pending Ukrainian cooperation…and then tries to immediately walk it back and deny the quid pro quo. The first thing I thought of watching that clumsy statement…

The long awaited Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament is going on right now and I’m sure she’s just loving this one with the farce of Brexit going on in the background. You’ve just got to love the British penchant for pomp and circumstance…the Queen being kitted out in the Robing Room in plain sight of Charles I’s death warrant on the wall to Black Rod’s trek to have the door of the…

This is unprecedented, to put it mildly. Never in all my years of following the goings on in the Palace of Westminster would I have ever imagined a sitting PM getting smacked so comprehensively as this 11-nil vote by the Law Lords of the UK Supreme Court. Effectively the advice given to Her Majesty and the subsequent Order in Council suspending Parliament are now vacated and null and void and the Speaker has already indicated…