The thing about Obamacare is that it doesn't really kick in till 2014. So, in 2013, I'm still dealing with the weird, weird, impossible old system.
( much more rumination about health insurance than you want to read )

I finally found almost exactly what I need: a memoir of an Austrian soldier on the Eastern front in World War One.  Better would have been a Russian soldier, but this fellow's memories are completely apposite.  He talks about the actual daily work of a soldier in rapidly-moving trench warfare (unlike the Western front where nobody could budge for ( Read more... )