It has certainly earned its 9% approval rating. Ezra Klein says “Let us count the ways.” Here are the bullet points; click over to read the unpleasant details. It’s not passing laws It’s hideously unpopular It’s incredibly polarized It has set back economic recovery It presided over the first downgrade of America’s credit rating in …
Here’s the Story of My Day yesterday: I got to Tripler Army Hospital via my brother-in-law at 5:15am yesterday morning. I checked in, changed into that awful hospital gown (at least they gave me a robe, too!) and sat around in front of a tv showing “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and then “For Better …
Today’s phone call: “Be at the hospital at 0530, surgery around 0730, probably a one-hour procedure, out by 0930-1000 if all goes well.” Man. There’s probably something to be said for getting in and out early in the day, but having to get up at 0430 to start is a bit more than I’d anticipated …
In the “Life of Johnson” Boswell quotes the man as follows: “. . .when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” It’s true, it’s true. I haven’t had a cigarette since Wednesday, July 4. Haven’t any interest in having one, either.
Dear Miller Brewing Company: I threw away my old church keys about 35 years ago when you and your competitors came up with pull-tab cans. Why in the name of all the household gods would you suddenly create a need to resurrect them with this new Punch Top Can? This is not progress.
In Pennsylvania there are an estimated three-quarters of a million people who have no state-issued ID cards, which have just been made a prerequisite for voting in that state. As you might imagine, this is having a huge effect on get-out-the-vote methods in the Keystone State. The estimated 750,000 voters who do not have state-issued …
It’s deadly serious, but it’s also a little amusing: somewhere at Tripler Hospital Friday morning, July 6, there’s a meeting going on among a dozen or so doctors. They’re sitting around a conference table (I imagine) and there’s a laptop set up on which is displayed the slide containing the cells derived from the biopsy …
Part of the treatment process includes potential damage to teeth, so I got a call from the Army dental clinic today saying “can you come up here so we can look at your mouth? Today?” So I trundled up there and spent an hour being poked with dental tools, x-rayed to an inch of my …
Presumably Adobe and Mozilla will get their acts together so I’ll be able to see this using Firefox and Flash at some point.
No scans done today. Probably won’t know more till next Wednesday. I sure thank the time I spent in the Navy for making me eligible to get coverage through the VA; I can’t imagine how much all this high-powered medical attention would cost otherwise. It points out how important the Medicaid expansion set forth in …