Cemetery officials removed Iraq vet’s Spongebob gravestone, deeming it inappropriate.
Families have total carte blanche to memorialize their deceased family members in the settings and with the people they choose. So it doesn’t surprise me Rep. Bill Young’s widow sent Charlie Crist a note asking him not to attend. But giving the note to the press?
John Oliver reports from inside the HealthCare.gov mainframe:
Are we not grasping the nature of the problem itself? TPM Reader ST says the issue isn’t so much the website as legacy computer systems throughout the federal bureaucracy and the need to stitch them all together until a single interface.
I’ve been following the flawed Healthcare.gov rollout with some interest. I’ve been working in the technology space for over 10 years, with experience both working on Federal systems and in the private sector.
What has surprised me most about the reaction to the rollout is how even seasoned IT pros seem to be misunderstanding large parts of the problem.
Law & Order SVU is airing a Weiner-inspired episode on Wednesday.
You had me at Slutbag.
From Readers who’ve had all the problems you’ve heard about with Healthcare.gov …
Following up on TPM Reader ST’s note about integrating multiple government legacy data systems, TPM Reader DS says the real issue might be slightly different …
Hi Josh, I’ve been following your coverage of Healthcare.gov-gate and think that reader ST is close to nailing the problem, but I think it’s bigger than just aging government infrastructure. I’ve been in the IT industry for over 10 years working at different state-regulated enterprises and I’m not so sure that the internal communication between aging governmental infrastructures are as big a problem as the interfacing that gets done with the external insurance companies.
Anti-Cuccinelli ad campaign tells young voters Cuccinelli ‘Wants To Make Oral Sex A Felony.”
Last we heard of one-time tech pioneer John McAfee he was living out some sort modern day Heart of Darkness fantasy in Belize and suspected in the murder of a neighbor before becoming an international fugitive and doing all sorts of other awesome stuff. Now House Republicans want him to get to the bottom of what happened with the Obamacare rollout.
Member of Congress has unsecured AR-15 assault rifle stolen from her unlocked garage.