It is official. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the worst California governor ever. Worse than Pete Wilson. Worse than Ronald Reagan. Worse than George Deukmedjian. The cuts to health care alone that he is proposing with his budget May Revise are brutal, heedless of human priorities, and would transform California into "Mississippi by the Pacific." Follow ( Read more... )

Hopefully this will start running on the cable news channels. Including Faux. Why not?

That's what Single Payer is all about!

Today I was an editor. I would call this a rough cut. But I needed to move on this fast because it happened on Monday. News.

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Oh yeah, that musical piece? I did that. GarageBand rules.

Thank Goddess. It's too late, of course, for Richie...we'd always have the paranoia in the back of our minds that maybe one day he'd go to get his Green Meds and he'd get hauled away in handcuffs. As long as Eric Holder is Attorney General, it looks like enforcing federal laws against pot by busting dispensaries is his last, last, LAST priority ( Read more... )

OK, let me set the scene. One of my molars, #15, the Molar of the Devil, (Yes, every tooth in your head is numbered, and that one was the one -- ask your dentist sometime) had been bothering me. I have gone through two prior extractions, both wisdom teeth, and I know my gums are in serious trouble. The proper periodontal care is going to require ( Read more... )

Richie Hass lost his battle with multiple myeloma this afternoon. I wasn't there to see him go, but actually he wanted it that way. I was at an agency getting registered to hopefully get a job in the public service field, and I talked to him while I was on the road. I think he died sometime soon after that ( Read more... )

As of today, Richie is officially in remission. The bone marrow biopsy done exactly a week ago was clear...free of the mutant plasma cells which are the hallmark of multiple myeloma. There is still a small amount of M-Spike protein in his blood, but it's down to a fraction of what was there originally ( Read more... )

I'm very glad I came to this event rather than go with some of my first instincts and shuttle back and forth between home and the City of Hope.

I am reconnecting with a whole slew of geeky friends. Tadao-san, lodrelhai, happypickle, dburr, the A-LA crew, etc. Geeks is good folks, like I always say ( Read more... )

Here's the official grades:


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People, think good thoughts about my friend dburr. He might just be having a really bad summer flu. But this might be something worse. Please think good thoughts for him, pray, meditate, do whatever you can.