Here are some random things that are good and not so good about Florida, based on our recent visit ( Read more... )

This may make me extreme, even "militant", but I don't care. Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. I love shallots. Seriously, they're awesome. Its like a tiny cross between an onion and a garlic clove, a little round flavor bomb. I started using them about six months ago, I guess, but they're goddam handy ( Read more... )

and we have a lovely fuck you to hand out. This fuck you goes to american private health insurance companies, for rescinding coverage for people with expensive claims, and then manipulating reporters to hide their behavior, and building relationships with lawmakers to prevent or subvert attempts at reform.  A former executive for CIGNA lays it all ( Read more... )

Do you remember back during the height of the war in Iraqistan how, every time they killed or captured anyone who had anything to do with terror, that person suddenly became "Al Quaida's No. 2 man"? Because it seems like now, every time some mid level GOP elected official disgraces themselves, they become a "front runner for the presidential ( Read more... )

okay, so, you may have been following the debate on health care, and noticed that for all the ink spilled about single payer versus private health insurance versus CHIP versus whatever, no one seems to have a handle on why Americans pay more for crappier health care than anyone else in the industrialized world. is it greedy hmos ? is it ( Read more... )

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I didn't, actually. But its a pretty cool title for a blog post ( Read more... )

We recognize that as a matter of diplomacy, the United States may for various reasons in various circumstances call another nation to account for practices that may in some respects resemble conduct in which the United States might in some circumstances engage, covertly or otherwise. Diplomatic relations with regard to foreign countries are not ( Read more... )

So my girlfriend and I have tickets to the Houston rodeo on Wednesday to see Reba McEntire. Stay tuned for a full report.

Watched part of "Grass" last night, a documentary about the history of marijuana prohibition in America. It's worth watching if you haven't seen it, although it can be one sided and a bit simplistic. But it made me sad to think of all that money, all those people in jail, for years and years and years. And for what? For a constantly shifting set of ( Read more... )