You are being ripped off

From National Geographic, this chart maps health care spending, in dollars, to life expectancy in North America and Europe.

If you're an American, you are being ripped off. You pay more than twice as much, and get significantly sub-standard outcomes. Your value per dollar is the worst in the developed world.

What's wrong with us as a nation that we don't have a value per dollar relationship like Japan's? If not Japan, which some people will unhelpfully shout is more homogenous than the United States, how about Spain, or Austrialia?

That aside, it's a very nifty infographic, encompassing four pieces of data: cost per person, life expectancy, political situation, and frequency of physician care.

Well, that explains where that comes from...

I've always wondered why my brain insisted so strongly that the characters in Sterlings wear glasses. I mean, sure, girls with glasses are cute, but why was my subconscious so strongly insistent that the dickgirls wear glasses?

I found a collection of dickgirl porn on the net recently, and it was organized by "costume." Note the standout:

• Angel: 5
• Armor and War: 5
• Beach/Swimwear: 95
• Bondage Futa: 71
• Business/Work: 3
• Dominant: 16
• Glasses: 464
• Goth/Punk: 8
• Latex: 1
• Lingerie: 2
• Maid: 55
• Nightwear: 4
• Nuns: 18
• Nurse: 2
• Nylons: 8
• Royalty: 1
• School: 35
• Witch: 1

Either I'm not the only one who makes this connection, or my subconscious has been hard-wired to conflate futanari (dickgirls) and meganekko (girls in glasses) by exposure.

Omaha asked nicely...

So I whipped out one of my many tools and put this together for her:
Pass. The. Damn. Bill. by ~elfsternberg on deviantART