A few days ago, on CNN, I heard a woman say “The United States has the best health care system in the world”.
It does?
Well, if it did, you would expect it would be easy to find statistics to back this up. The US would show up at the top or near the top for all major health care statistics. Strangely enough, this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Blogger beware! Blog comments that don’t seem to offer a whole lot may be cleverly disguised pornographic spam. This happened to me recently.
This is too funny! A guy upset by what united airlines did to his expensive guitar produced a music video and posted it on youtube. Read the rest of this entry »
A trillion dollars will likely have been spent on the Iraq war by the time it is truly “over.” And, like Vietnam, for nothing. A trillion dollars to execute Saddam. A trillion dollars to create a hatred of our country that will live in the souls of Iraqis for generations to come. Read the rest of this entry »
from: The Huffington Post Lawrence Bender: Remembering David Carradine.
One of the most wonderful memories I have of David is from first day of training. Read the rest of this entry »
Koko Taylor. Sam Butera. David Carradine. All gone in the last day.
If you don’t know who these people are, here are some pointers. Read the rest of this entry »
I rediscovered the Kung Fu series only recently and completed the whole DVD set of season one a few days ago. I used the famous Grasshopper quote in my first post to this blog. In honour of Carradine, here are 2 more Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the beginning of the month, so I’m looking at my web stats for the various websites I have a hand in. The results are amazing …
First we had the term First Lady. And that was good. Sounds a bit elitist, I suppose, but the idea was respect for the position and unacknowledged time and energy. The First Lady is more or less an official position. There’s an Office of the First Lady. She has staff.
Then we had the First Family. And that was OK, I guess. No official position, no staff, no office, so it’s not really the same. But you can stretch the point that far, I guess.
Then we had the First Dog!
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