Nancy's surgery has been put back to early tomorrow morning, so she's just hanging out tonight, not eating or drinking anything, waiting for the surgery in the morning.

Nancy will have her gall bladder taken out laproscopically around 6:30 this evening, give or take, and will be at Seton NW tonight recovering, home tomorrow, if all goes as expected ( Read more... )

So, Nancy has a good encrustations of gall stones in her gall bladder. The ultrasound tech just left, and called the presence of the stones, but the radiologist needs to take an official look.

We expect Nancy will have her gall bladder out and that we'll be in hospital until sometime tomorrow.

Am at hospital with Nancy, who woke up with absolutely terrible abdominal pains. This happened once before and the pains alleviated themselves, but I don't know what 's going to happen now.

She's in ER triage attm.

This article describes why the stimulus is not likely to save us, and the inevitability of what is to come.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/03/guest-post-more-debt-wont-rescue-great.html

The down, dirty, shitty story of what exactly Wall Street did to blow up the economy.

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom?print=true

I remain the greatest fan of Christopher Hitchens.

A trucker documents the true design of the Hiroshima bomb.

The Economist on the sorry state of the world's oceans.

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