My little web presence will be discontinued this fall, since Yahoo is ending geocities in October. Consider this your last opportunity to check it out! … certainly feel free in giving me ideas on options; I am in deliberation.
Watched “(500) Days of Summer” – sweet, sad, funny; I recommend it. Yeah there are odd plot holes and you want to wonder how silly the characters can be – but it’s a human story. I liked it.
Just me getting on the soap box for a minute: Apparently, there are indeed rational ways to consider how we can reform health care in this country. You know, without screaming at foolhardy legislators (who are a lot braver than I realize; but the mediator in me would want to encourage people to… realize that screaming is counter-productive and not a problem-solving technique; can we hear each other out and read and learn, before we react like fools? This isn’t exactly an easy problem and I just don’t think status quo is supportable, if it’s the thing that will hurt us in the long run).
NY Times’ Paul Krugman raises the question of how do we deal with an “unreasoning, unappeasable opposition”? — I’d suppose that realizing that they’re there is one step; the next is how to persuade the confused middle (I’m thinking that there has to be a lot of them; how many of us can say we understand health care/ health insurance or have read the bills on the issue?).
NY Times’ Bob Herbert acknowledges the confusion (great, I’m not the only one noticing it).
Very interesting item: President Obama has nominated three Asian-Americans to be judges in California’s federal district courts. (hat tip to Angry Asian Man, blog of which I’ve been getting into reading of late). Hmm… by the way, there is at least one vacant seat in 2nd Circuit, with Justice Sotomayor now on the US S.Ct…
The thing that moved me about the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver is learning about the impact she made in the lives of those with disabilities, particularly with the Special Olympics, and getting us to be more aware – back when women were not necessarily expected to be the political ones, in the sense of running for office, and thus having other ways to be advocates for others. I thought there was something powerful in reading how one person with a disability left a note: “She taught us to stand tall.”
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