There’s an article up on the BBC which actually made me feel lightly ill. It’s about winning the lottery in Oregon. The healthcare lottery, that is. Apparently Oregon has decided to address the issue of healthcare for low income individuals by creating a lottery system, with lucky winners who receive healthcare. The losers, apparently, buy …
Monthly Archives: March 2008
March Book Project Report
In March, I read a total of 40 books, and 13,174 pages, for an average of 424.96 pages and 1.29 books a day. That makes around a 75 page/day increase over February, and I more than doubled January’s pages/day average. March was simply a more productive month, reading wise. There are a couple of reasons …
Throbbing Cupcakes
Aloha Airlines has gone under. Pity, I always rather liked flying Aloha. I seemed to be doomed to fall in love with airlines that fail; my last airline of choice was TWA. A proposal is afoot in Tennessee to allow transgendered individuals to change their sex on their birth certificates. When Tennessee is getting that …
Books Eighty-Two Through Eighty-Seven
See, what happened was, I was going to write about some of these yesterday, but then I had a ham feast. And then I was going to write about them today, but my internet went out right after I wrote this morning’s post and finally came back on, so now I have six books to …
The Claim and the Argument
British authorities claim that there is no health benefit to eating organic fruits and vegetables, according to an article in the Guardian I read this morning. The crux of the article is that it is more important to eat fruits and vegetables than to worry about whether or not they are organic, with the argument …
The Disappearance of George MacInroe
It’s time for another installment in our serial fiction story. If you’re lost, want to catch up, or want to refresh your memory, the archive is here. When Henry Makepeace woke up, he decided that Gregory would probably be able to solve the mystery of the box, since he had been working the day before, …
Books Eighty and Eighty-One: Boy and Going Solo
Whenever I read these two Roald Dahl autobiographies, I tend to read them together, because they are two halves of the same story. Boy talks about Dahl’s childhood, and sets the stage for Going Solo, which is about Dahl’s career with the Shell Company right before the outbreak of the Second World War, and then …
Book Seventy-Nine: Dracula
I haven’t read Dracula in a very long time, and I’m not sure what inspired me to pluck it from the shelf last night, but I found myself deeply engrossed in it. The book was certainly different this time than the last time I read it, or rather I have changed enough that my perspective …
Inglenook Cemetery
The cemetery series begins again, thanks to a whirlwind Saturday trip to capture the three coastal cemeteries* we hadn’t shot yet. I’ll start with Inglenook Cemetery, which had to be the smallest and least exciting cemetery we visited. I suppose that’s not too surprising, since Inglenook is one of the smallest and least exciting towns …
Clanking Dishcloths
The International Olympic Committee needs to get its act together, according to Sally Jenkins at the Washington Post. MASSIVE DEFEAT takes pictures. They are neat. Go look at them. Did I mention that they are pictures of Iraq? Green products are all the rage, which raises the question of we know that products are genuinely …