a letter

Dear Fatigue--

How long are you planning on staying with me? I'm tired of you.

Love,
Emily, your constant companion.

could you do it?

living without airconditioning...I'm not sure I could do it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/garden/23air.html?pagewanted=1&ref=style

more healthcare

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26leonhardt.html?hpw

more thoughts on healthcare

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?pagewanted=1&em

a quote: >>>
One final comment. It is common for opponents of health care rationing
to point to Canada and Britain as examples of where we might end up if
we get "socialized medicine." On a blog on Fox News earlier this year,
the conservative writer John Lott wrote, "Americans should ask
Canadians and Brits — people who have long suffered from rationing —
how happy they are with central government decisions on eliminating
'unnecessary' health care." There is no particular reason that the
United States should copy the British or Canadian forms of universal
coverage, rather than one of the different arrangements that have
developed in other industrialized nations, some of which may be
better. But as it happens, last year the Gallup organization did ask
Canadians and Brits, and people in many different countries, if they
have confidence in "health care or medical systems" in their country.
In Canada, 73 percent answered this question affirmatively.
Coincidentally, an identical percentage of Britons gave the same
answer. In the United States, despite spending much more, per person,
on health care, the figure was only 56 percent. <<<

oh snap!

http://bradley.chattablogs.com/archives/2009/07/is-the-presbyte.html

places i want to go before i die

The Lakes District
some pacific island
peru
scotland
colorado
portugal
africa somewhere
the caribbean
australia
I would like to travel a lot. we'll just drop our children off with
you and go for a jaunt!