Gone Away
In case anyone’s RSS feed is still tuned into this place, I’ve moved back to More a way of life… and have finally started writing there again.
Thank you for your time and attention.
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Hello Again. And Almost Goodbye
So not that I can imagine anyone’s paying any attention to this here thing any more, as it’s been so long since I updated, but I thought I should post something up again at last.
As will probably have been apparent when I was last posting way back last Autumn, I wasn’t in a very positive [...]
Older and Wiser (?)
Here we are on another birthday, a year on from the one I described as “my suckiest ever”, and I’m pondering on the changes of the last year, and whether things are better or worse.
On the upside from then, The Mrs is now here in SF with me, which is a huge bonus over last [...]
Treading Warily
I woke up this morning to find nine emails relating to comments requiring approval on my healthcare post from yesterday.
“Yikes”, I thought, I’ve woken a sleeping monster and a screaming mob are baying at my blog demanding my head for comparing the UK system favourably with the US. Given the attitude of some of the [...]
Yet More Healthcare
Further to my previous post on the ‘debate’; The last couple of weeks I’ve finally had direct contact with this “finest healthcare system in the world, what do you mean it’s broken and needs fixing, you unAmerican, you?” healthcare system. And speaking obviously as an outsider, I’d just like to say;
“This system is broken and [...]
Oh The Irony
I love it when LGBT rights opponents manage to make our arguments for us.
Like Senator Chris Buttars of Utah, who says he will block a proposed inclusive Salt Lake City anti-discrimination bill because, and this is a direct quotation:
“I don’t think the discrimination they scream about is really real”.
This in Salt Lake City, home of [...]
“The Lion Of The Senate”
Just before I went to bed last night I saw the news that Ted Kennedy had died (and I’m sorry, no matter how long I live in this country, I’m never going to use the rather mealy-sounding ‘passed’), and was deeply saddened. Not in a “oh no, my despair is deep and personal” sense, because [...]
Review - District 9
Among the very many hard-to-classify films I’ve seen in my time, District 9 is one of the hardest. And that’s a good thing, because too many films these days are a high concept with no high plot to support it.
I really don’t want to give too much of the plot of this one away, so [...]
A Week On Planes
This week has been, in various different ways, a living hell.
The signs were never propitious: two separate trips to two different parts of the country spanning three days and six flights (including connections). The first trip involved driving down to San Jose to catch a flight, then back up from there late the same day; [...]
More Healthcare
Just a quick addition to yesterday’s ramble.
Last night Rachel Maddow took a look at some of the prominent “healthcare reform is a secret plot to kill old people” voices and highlighted their rank hypocrisy.
Even they don’t believe it.