Ten thousand subscribers, he says, pay $28 a year for Placebo Journal, which is published every two months and skewers the health care system's half-baked mistakes, pokes fun at doctors, patients, insurers and drug companies, or just goes for the gross-out.
But its half-baked moves involving the same old system of patronage rather than anything resembling democracy are now widely blamed for encouraging the spread of organised crime.
He criticised government plans to tackle the growing pressures in the system as "half-baked" and "too little, too late".
For a normal user, this would be a dead-end with one of two options: ignore the problem and hope nothing bad happens in consequence; or try to repair the operating system using some half-baked recovery method provided by the computer manufacturer or the Windows install disk (assuming they have one).
But the postal service hemmed and hawed, considered a half-baked hybrid, hand-delivered e-mail system, and ultimately, with typical foresight, passed on the opportunity.
Meanwhile, legislators have already transformed the state's half-baked medical regime into a coherent system, one that's on track to approach a record $1 billion year in taxable weed sales, according to numbers provided to VICE by California's Board of Equalization.
While the system might not be half-baked anymore, I'm still not sure if Google TV deserves a place in your living room.
These were gross overreactions, born of a peculiarly American jitteriness, evident in the shutdown of the entire Los Angeles school system on Tuesday because of a half-baked threat.
One of the world's leading atmospheric scientists has told the UN that its present attempt to limit emissions is "half-arsed and half-baked" and risks handing the next generation a climate system that is out of their control.
Sir Alan, like the prime minister, shared an instinctive distrust of such currency systems; he famously called this a "half-baked" idea.
