A few weeks ago, I lost a small argu­ment with a hand tool. It was no big deal. Four stitches later I was good to go, except for one prob­lem: this hap­pened on a Sun­day. I bled. I cussed. Then wrapped in gauze I quickly sur­veyed my options. Option #1 was to drive to the […]

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Sky
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Tonight I wrote the fol­low­ing in a dis­cus­sion thread on one of the main­stream media web­sites cov­er­ing the Mass­a­chu­setts sen­ate elec­tion. Thank­fully, direct feed­back has been mostly pos­i­tive and con­struc­tive, which is a hopeful sign.

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Sky
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Cour­tesy of MoveOn.Org [1], I just watched the fol­low­ing video: Sen­a­tor Kennedy had the courage to stand up for health­care as a right for all Amer­i­cans, and cry foul at his peers in the Sen­ate who would deny uni­ver­sal cov­er­age to oth­ers while enjoy­ing excep­tional cov­er­age funded by all our tax dol­lars. So once again, the […]

Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Sky
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This viral email arrived in my inbox today: Sub­ject: Fw: Shock­ing Fred Thomp­son Inter­view on Senior Health Care You will NOT believe your ears!!!! Send this to all of your friends and rel­a­tives!!!! If you are over 65 and sick with a seri­ous life threat­en­ing ill­ness, your life is worth very lit­tle under this new health […]

Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Sky
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A recent story[1] by Seat­tle Times staff reporter Richard Seven starts like this: “After per­form­ing more than 3,000 weight-loss surg­eries dur­ing a three-decade career, James Weber closes his prac­tice this month to become a yoga instruc­tor. Con­sider it a quality-of-life move.” Think about it. Giv­ing up a six-figure career to focus instead on the pre­ven­tive root […]

Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Sky
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