And the rest of last week's comics, in the event, gasp, that you missed any:

Volume 168
Volume 167
Volume 166
Volume 165
Volume 164
Volume 163

Volume 169
Volume 168

And yet - as I watched game 4 on Fox (yuck), there were two announcers who sounded as if they were intoning some oratory at a funeral. And they never shut up. If they had been in the seats next to me, I would have tried to get them ejected - or perhaps spill some soda on them.

Their insights, of which they were obviously proud, were so staggeringly pedestrian that it could make ones head spin if their verbal emissions were allowed to penetrate ones consciousness.

An example:
"It's not when you get the outs, it's if you get the outs."

Awesome.

Mute buttons don't solve the problem - because they mute everything - including the sounds from the ballpark that one may wish to hear.

So, you have to find a volume level that is sufficiently low as to render the verbiage unintelligible and yet let slip through some of the ambiance of the event.

The Obama administration's oft-repeated pledge that "if you like your plan, you can keep it," is being exposed as a fraud for hundreds of thousands of the estimated 14 million Americans who purchase their own insurance because they don't receive it through their job. These people are finding out that new coverage through their present insurer will be much more expensive, and that in most cases insurance offered through the insurance exchanges set up under Obamacare will either have more costly premiums or will include large out-of-pocket costs, while limiting choices. Many of these people will not be eligible for subsidies through Obamacare.

Insurance companies began sending out cancellation notices in August.Kaiser Health News reports that insurer Florida Blue is terminating about 300,000 individual policies in the state, about 80 percent of the total. Kaiser Permanente in California has sent termination notices to some 160,000 people, about half of its individual market business.

Blue Shield of California has sent out about 119,000 cancellation notices. Blue Shield spokesman Steve Shivinsky reports that about two thirds of these policyholders will see rate increases in their new policies.

In Pennsylvania, insurer Highmark is dropping about 20 percent of its individual market customers in Pittsburgh, while Independence Blue Cross, the major Philadelphia insurer, is dropping about 45 percent. According toKaiser Health News, both Independence and Highmark are canceling "guaranteed issue" policies sold to customers who had preexisting medical conditions when they signed up for coverage. While the ACA is supposed to guarantee that people with preexisting conditions cannot be denied coverage or be charged more for it, it appears that some insurers are doing precisely that.

Cheney thinks Snowden is a traitor and should "face justice."

These words come from the surly mouth of Cheney, who  is a traitor and a war criminal, and should face justice.

BILL MOYERS: Do you find it remarkable, Jamie Dimon asking for a personal meeting with the Attorney General Eric Holder to decide in private on a penalty? Michael Hirsh in the National Journal calls it a personal summit meeting. And he goes on to say that these negotiations "would only have been possible if the government of the United States is itself afraid of disturbing the operations of the bank," that as you have said, the attorney general himself thinks JPMorgan is indeed too big to fail.

GRETCHEN MORGENSON: It seems unusual to me. And it does smack of favoritism, special treatment. It certainly was unusual I would say for Eric Holder, the attorney general of the United States of America to have a personal meeting with someone that his office is negotiating a settlement with. That raised eyebrows with me. I know I wouldn't be able to get that meeting if I asked--

BILL MOYERS: No--

GRETCHEN MORGENSON: And if I implored: no. So I mean, I think it really sends a signal also which is disturbing that, you know, again two sets of rules in America, there's one set for the people who are in positions of power, certainly in the financial world one set of rules perhaps for them, one set for the rest of us.

You know, I really don't understand why Eric Holder could, you know, would not have decided that it was the optics just didn't look that good for him to meet with Jamie Dimon. But maybe there's something behind it that I don't know.

Why JP Morgan May be Getting Off Easy

Before the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, President Barack Obama promised Americans they could keep their health care plans if they liked them. But already hundreds of thousands of citizens are receiving notification that their plans are being canceled because they don't comply with the new law, and, according to NBC News, the Obama administration has known for at least three years the cancellations were coming.

While campaigning for health care reform in 2009, Obama went out of his way to make one thing perfectly clear: If you like your current health care plan, you will be able to keep it.

On June 15, 2009, Obama said this: "We will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period."

In 2012, he echoed that sentiment, saying, ""If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance."

However, many are finding that not to be the case. More than 300,000 cancellation notices have been sent out in Florida, according to Kaiser Health News, and another 180,000 in California. In New Jersey, the number of cancellations tops 800,000, the Star-Ledger reports.

According to NBC News, approximately 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million Americans who buy their health insurance individually should expect to receive a cancellation letter over the next year "because their existing policies don't meet the standards mandated by the new health care law."

We already knew that Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was getting ready to release a major new anti-NSA spying bill called the USA Freedom Act, and Derek Khanna has just revealed many of the details of the bill, scheduled to be introduced in both houses of Congress this coming Tuesday.  It will be backed by Sensenbrenner in the House and Pat Leahy in the Senate, and will have plenty of co-sponsors (already about 50 have signed up) including some who had initially voted against the Amash Amendment back in July.  In other words, this bill has a very high likelihood of actually passing, though I imagine that the intelligence community, and potentially the White House, will push back on it.

Warning: There are over 700 fake obamacare sites ready to swipe your info.

Pro Tip: The real site is the one that doesn't work.

Eeesh. Maybe more truth than not in that.