Okay, so one of the notification systems I'm tied into just sent me a petition regarding the health care reforms.  It mentioned that the current health companies -- insurance et al -- are spending $1.4 million per day on lobbying Congress in their interests ( Read more... )

I need more coffee.

And then I need to take care of the draft-leaking spot in the wall.

Then I need to wash off plaster dust.

I also need to send off a package (never mind that the occasion of the package is long past) and possibly a short story not currently languishing on some editor's desk.  And I need to write a couple more that are banging around ( Read more... )

While I glare at a paper that refuses to write itself, that is ( Read more... )