I had been thinking over the last 10 days that as long as you had "original" TL up and running, it was going to be hard to wean people off of it and get them over to the new site.

But, if you keep the original site and add a premium feature, it's going to have to be premium enough that people will have a reason to subscribe - whether it's only being able to comment if you're a premium subscriber, or not being able to see the comments without a premium membership, or only getting a limited number of page views per month before having to subscribe, there has to be an incentive greater than "look at all these cool new features."

Let's look at actual facts instead of this myth that has been devised to reduce actual health care while increasing the insurance industries bottom line:

The International Federation of Health Plans is out with their new comparative price report for 2012 and it again shows the United States radically overpays for basically every health care service relative to any other first-world country.
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Americans do not tend to consume more health care than the rest of the first world. The sole reason we spend so much more on health care is that our government allows hospitals, drug companies, labs, insurance companies, and doctors to overcharge us. Governments in the rest of the industrialized world limit how much hospitals can charge. They do this either by having a single-payer system or imposing an all-payer price setting system. link

As best as I can determine, there is only one Democrat in the Senate from a red or swing state right now who voted against the Defense of Marriage Act back in 1996: Sherrod Brown of Ohio. His perspective is particularly interesting, because he voted against DOMA in a state where gay marriage was so unpopular that Republicans were able to use it to turn out voters by referendum eight years later, in the 2004 presidential election.
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"Casting a controversial vote forces us as elected officials to go home and take a public opinion bath," Brown said, in a reference to Lincoln's famous formulation. "Advocating for a position, you can move the public."
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"People were very critical after the vote -- there was a lot of disagreement and anger about it," said, Brown, who won reelection by a comfortable margin last year despite running an aggressively populist campaign in the face of tens of millions of dollars in outside cash. "To me, taking a controversial position, if you believe it and you argue it, you can convince enough people that even if they don't agree with you, they'll appreciate that you stand for something."

Take note, red state Dems. It is possible to win arguments over difficult, controversial issues, even when the politics look daunting. And if you try it, you just might find yourselves on the right side of history. link

Attorneys representing the U.S. Department of Justice are expected to defend warrantless use of stingray devices, which trick mobile devices into connecting to them by impersonating legitimate cell towers.

Residents of shelters, streets and cheap motels began collecting checks ranging from $400 to $750 Monday at the Loaves & Fishes homeless services complex on North C Street and other locations around town, while those with permanent addresses are getting their money in the mail.

The payments resolve an unusual class-action lawsuit charging that Sacramento police stomped on the constitutional rights of homeless people by grabbing their belongings and throwing them away without giving the owners a chance to get them back. link

Partly due also to the US side seeming to play for the tie, as they didn't often have sustained attacks in the Mexican side of the field.  Perhaps this was due to the fact the US squad was playing with a number of starters out with injuries, and star Donovan Landon still being on a year-long sabbatical (?).

A frustrating two hours spent waiting for something to happen.

I was right - alighting out of the back, within touching distance of me - was Justice (and Mrs.) Antonin Scalia.