Electricity? Check. Keyboard? Check. Half-baked opinions? By the drove. Looks like I’m qualified to weigh in on health care reform! Here’s my $0.02: I’m quite disappointed that my representatives aren’t better equipped to defuse the situations they face at town hall meetings. Even Barney Frank’s retort, while demonstrating some badly needed backbone, was delivered on [...]
Entries from August 2009
Yahoo, Seriously
August 21st, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: health care · public option · socialism
Born Too Soon
August 6th, 2009 No Comments
Now that Chauncey can join AARD, we’ve had to start her on a small daily dose of phenylpropanolamine for urinary incontinence. She wears her emotions on her sleeve, so I don’t think she’d mind me sharing that information. Anyway, it got me reminiscing about when I used to get cluster headaches, which I tried treating [...]
Tags: cluster headache · LSD · shrooms
Festival of Lanterns
August 4th, 2009 No Comments
We’re back in Japantown the next morning for our guided walking tour. Its residential streets, where Karyn’s mom lived through the early eighties, are lined with unremarkable houses that people in Seattle would give their eyeteeth for: solid one- or two-story numbers in the airport’s shadow and new condos overlooking a nice park, backed up [...]