QOTD

"Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.
You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see."
- The old man's "blog" in "Gilead"

Book: "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson
Review: 4 bill-stars (out of 5)... really good!

"Gilead" takes place in Gilead, Iowa.
Google maps says that Gilead is also town in Iowa.
But Wikipedia says that's not what the book meant... Gilead Wikipedia page.

I don't know. Whatever. But thank you Wikipedia for this one... that my heathen ass did not know:

From the Scriptures, "Gilead" means hill of testimony or mound of witness, (Genesis 31:21)
- Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead

"Gilead" (the book) is indeed a "mound of witness". The book is a 77 year-old guy's writings/advice to his young son. See, the old Dad is dying and he wants to leave his thoughts for his son to read when he grows up.

The writing is absolutely beautiful. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction... says so right on the cover. It is warm and insightful and positive.

It's also a wee bit boring at times. Reading some guy's inner monologue is sort of like, um, reading this crappy blog... my blog just doesn't have all that fancy verbiage or correct punctuation, of course. The author was cool because the old man's "blog" meanders a bit... some times telling stories more than once, and being all stream of consciousness, like I like. I really felt like I was reading some old minister's notes to his son most of the time. I really felt like I was reading a guy who was, still at 77, trying to figure some shit out. Trying to make sense of some things. I empathize.

And, nice ending.

I think it's okay to be a little bored in the middle there. To muddle a bit. Depth comes at a slower pace. We got to know the Reverend and his life/situation even better that way. And it's a nice complement to all the tweeting and the local sports team and blah blah blah.

So, I really liked "Gilead".
try it... yow, bill

PS - Funny. I finished reading "Gilead" on a bar stool with (practically naked) women's beach volleyball blaring on TV in the background. Nice contrast. He he.

PPS - OK, let me dig and find you (me, really) another one... ah!

QOTD2

"How soft her voice is. That there should be such a voice in the whole world, and that I should be the one to hear it, seemed to me then and seems to me now an unfathomable grace."
- the old minister describing his wife

PPPS - I just amazoned up the previous work by Robinson, "Housekeeping". Excellent.

Labels: 4stars, books, qotd

Well, this is an unnecessary post.
The UN is weak and ineffectual... so is President Obama's foreign policy. This is not news.
I got sucked in though by an eloquent quote from Israel and a statement of frustration with the weak Obama foreign policy from our surrender-monkey friends, the French.


Israel
First, well, thank you Miss Israel from whatever ignominious beauty contest you come from...


The whole snippet of Benjamin Netanyahu's UN speech is a QOTD, but here's my fave snippet snippet.

QOTD

"A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state. What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations!"
- Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran's appearance at the UN, source

France
And thank you Miss France for your appearance.


It appears that even Frenchie leader Sarkozy is tired of Obama's appeasement. Imagine that.

QOTD2

"... what have these [Obama] proposals for dialogue produced for the international community? Nothing but more enriched uranium and more centrifuges. And last but not least, it has resulted in a statement by Iranian leaders calling for wiping off the map a Member of the United Nations."
- Sarkozy frustration at the weakness of Obama foreign policy, source

Appeasement as Obama foreign policy may be a loser.
But Miss France is definitely a winner.
he he... yow, bill

PS - Like any of these posts are "necessary". He he.

Labels: politics, qotd

This Bloomies spam is forming the basis for my new fall wardrobe.

I just didn't want to startle anyone if you see me walking around looking like this dude.
And free shipping!

XKCD is good.

• Great XKCD today: www.xkcd.com/642/
• The wikipedia page on XKCD is fun: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd
• The wikipedia page on the author is fun too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe

Ty bad-mouthed wikipedia yesterday, parroting his teacher, who was parroting something or someone else who was parroting...
he he... yow, bill

PS - I took this black walnut shot (below) this weekend. With all the tennis-ball size walnuts on the ground, I was struck by how many black walnuts were still hanging up in the trees above. Well, some nice kismet there... not a big storm last night, but windy. This morning my front lawn is a flipping carpet of hundreds and hundreds of black walnuts.

Labels: fun, myphoto, xkcd

Kids in Fantasy Football
Really fun story about kids in fantasy football leagues from Rob the Ranter:


We have kids in our fantasy baseball and football league. They do a really great job, and we have a blast. I'd point you to our league so you can see, but stupid Yahoo will only let members see it. Now, why Yahoo wants to prevent people from seeing the stupid ads that support all this stuff in the first place, I don't know. It's a brain twizzler.

I'd thank Rob T for his contribution, but I can't. I'm actually in the midst of a blogger blood feud with Rob T because he recently referred to "Leaving Las Vegas" as a "decent" film. Decent. Decent? I know I should defer to Rob T (with Aurora, IL being the film capital of the free world and all), but LLV is better than decent. One of the best metaphors for addiction, fun story, great performances, and Elizabeth Shue putting out for you. Decent! Dang. I demand retribution!

He he.
Why do I think I'm so funny... when I know I'm not.
Oh yeah , self-delusion.
Forgot.

Investing in China
One of my favorite investing blogs is the Mad Hedge Fund Trader. I don't always agree with the guy, but he's rational and reasonable... a hurdle many of these blogs cannot, um, hurdle.

Here's an interesting post on China/Asia: Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Stuff I liked from the post:

1. We are still far ahead of China... "Power is not shifting from West to East; Asia is just lifting itself off the mat, with per capita GDP only at $5,800, compared to $48,000 in the US."
   
2. Future global power will be more diffuse... "We are simply moving from a unipolar to a multipolar world. China is not going to dominate the world, or even Asia, where there is a long history of regional rivalries and wars. China can’t even control China, where recessions lead to revolutions, and 30% of the country, Tibet and the Uighurs, want to secede."
3. We need a new model/relationship with China longer-term... "All of Asia’s progress to date has been built on selling to the US market. Take us out, and they’re nowhere. With enormous resource, environmental, and demographic challenges constraining growth, Asia is not replacing the US anytime soon."
4. China's system is still in its infancy... "There is no miracle form of Asian capitalism; impoverished, younger populations are simply forced to save more because there is no social safety net. Ever heard of a Chinese unemployment office?"
5. The media sucks (he he)... "The press often touts the 600,000 engineers that China graduates, joined by 350,000 in India. In fact, 90% of these are only educated to a trade school standard. Asia only has one world class school, the University of Tokyo."
   

In my lifetime, this is the third narrative foreboding the end of the United States... the first two were Russia and Japan. So now, China and Asia are gong to kick our ass. Maybe. Could be. But I'm betting on the USA until we stop competing... not because we are competing. Make sense?

Investing in China and all emerging markets is the place to be, but it's neck-wrenching volatile... up and down 10% in a flash.

I'll leave you with QOTD from that post.

QOTD

"As much as we despise ourselves and wallow in our failures, Asians see us as a bright, shining example for the world. After all, it was our open trade policies and innovation that lifted them out of poverty and destitution. Walk the streets of China, as I have done for nearly four decades, and you feel this."
- Mad Hedge Fund Trader, source

A bright shining example for the world... Yup.
usa... yow, bill

PS - Our bikini lead over China remains formidable... as evidenced by Miss China over there. She's got my runner tan with the half-tanned legs. Dop.

PPS - Add this one to your favorites or delicious or whatever. I didn't go this year, but next? Maybe with Rob T if we're ever on speaking terms again. He he. Dammit. LOL.

Labels: fun, investing, myphoto, politics, qotd

Smile? Good lord.


QOTD

"Every time the state assumes an additional function such as health insurance, child care or benefits for the aged, the need for close family ties becomes weaker."
- some dude

These two quotes are the best thing in this article, I believe.


QOTD2

"It may be that one of the most effective ways of increasing allegiance to the state is through national health insurance."
- some other dude

Any debate on these QOTDs?
I think the real debate is whether you care about weaker "family ties" being replace by a stronger "allegiance to the state"... though our President and Congress won't ever admit this.
This is why the "Medicare for all" debate is so heated... and a hearty huzzah to that!

QOTD3

"Dude, this movie is awesome!"
- Teenager checkout "dude" at Best Buy last night... I was buying the "300" DVD

Movie: "300"
Review: 4 bill-stars (out of 5)... excellent!

"300" is silly, shallow... um, pretty stupid and gay... sue me. I like it. It does what it sets out to do and does it very well. It's pretty positive and fun. It's also one of the few "graphic novel" movies that I like. "300" and Watchmen"... that's about it.

Sigh. Smile. Cringe. I did all three pretty much simultaneously as my checkout "dude" attempted to bond with my cranky old 47 ass. He he. Oh well, I lived. Good one.
dude... yow, bill

Labels: 4stars, movies, myphoto, politics, qotd

Bass solo... percussion... keyboard...

QOTD

"Well my Daddy sent a message
'Bout the whiskers on my chin
Never had no problem
Cause I always paid the rent"
- Chicago, "I'm a Man"

Nice chart... 10 year performance by asset class... Aug 1999 - 2009:


Source: www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/09/10-year-asset-class-returns


From "Pump Up The Volume", but left off the soundtrack...

"I like it here."
he he... yow, bill

PS - Daddy, Money, Daddy. Kismet.

Labels: investing, music, qotd, video

Click on it... the biggie is worth it IMHO:


What the heck has gotten into little Wolfie Blitzer over there on CNN?!?
He asked David Axelrod THE question.
The Axe-man looks like he just took a football to the groin... hommina, hommina, doink.

THE health care question, you ask?
Well, President Obama argues that the feds ought to sell health insurance to increase competition on insurance companies and therefore lower prices.
THE health care question is: Why not tweak our arcane rules/regulations to increase competition between private insurers.


doink... yow, bill

Labels: myphoto, politics

I'll admit... I'm not fond of the google auto-complete game. Ya know, you see how google's auto-complete feature fills in this or that... to hilarious consequences.
Not.

Anyway, I stumbled across this googling for this post. So, for your disapproval, "google illinois":


Jeez, that's a head-shaker.

I was googling is search of an uber-obnoxious radio ad I heard in the car. The Illinois lottery was screeching about some game and if you won you'd have to deal with a "Cash-a-lanche". And the lady was calling into the Illinois lottery trying to figure out how to buy an island or something. Proudly, I suppressed my gag reflex and drove on.

Of course, the Illinois Lottery has a website. I figgered that much. I didn't know that the Illinois Lottery goes to campus bars and peddles their wares. It's called "Bags & Bucks". See?

The Illinois Lottery will be in Champaign on Oct 9 at the Firehaus Grill. Excellent. The schedule also includes Northern, Southern, Western, and Northwestern flavors of "Illinois state university". I don't see North Central College on the list. He he.

They have 2 flavors of games for the college kids... "Tailgate events" and "Bar events".

QOTD

"Bar Events - Play a real game of bags at these bar events for a chance to win Bags n Bucks Instant Tickets or Lottery merchandise. You can also buy tickets from our Lucky Lottery Ladies and enter the drawing for a chance to win your very own Baggo set."
- Illinois Lottery Bags & Bucks promotion, www.illinoislottery.com/BagsBucks

I can't for the life of me find a picture of the "Lucky Lottery Ladies". I found a tiny paragraph about the girls at the lottery site, but no pictures. Why aren't these girls proudly displayed, ala the Miller Lite Babes or Corona Hotties or something. Little help?

The lottery is the most regressive tax known to man, right? I mean you could tax the shit out of baby formula, and the lottery would get a higher percentage of its dough from poor people. Right?

Of course, the Illinois Lottery isn't about "the children" or "the budget" or whatever... it's about keeping your gig over at the Illinois Lottery. It's about pow-ah. It's about growing government at any price. Any. Price.

The Illinois Lottery is what we're going through this with health care and global warming right now. The feds will do or say anything to increase the size and specter of the federal government. Any. Thing.

Stream of consciousness and I'm off to code... google "illinois bikini"


That's some "Miss Illinois" from some year. Jeez.

Or, if you prefer your women a little larger.


This is a giant plastic woman in Peoria.
It's really funny... surf over here: The Giant Bikini Woman of Peoria, Illinois

enough already... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"It was 2 1/2 hours of satisfaction and then 2 1/2 hours of horseshit baseball.
Go ask them. I don't have any more quotes.
Seriously.
What the fuck am I going to say?
"They're horseshit?"
Yes, they are."
- Ozzie Guillen, source

Oh, dammit. That's the best.
I heart Ozzie.

QOTD2

"This is a tease, man. It's like when you have a girlfriend and you are kissing her all over ... and she says no. That's where we are right now. That's the way we are."
- Ozzie

OK. Now read that last quote out loud... channeling Tony Montana... "This is a tease, mang"
he he... yow, bill

Labels: qotd, sports

[from the President's speech to Congress]

President Obama: "The [health care] reforms that I'm proposing would not apply to those that are here illegally."

Rep. Joe Wilson: "You lie!"

[pause a few days]

Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care ... "President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage."

So, the huckleberry from SC was right.
yup, you lie... yow, bill

PS - This SC bikini is right on as well. He he.

Labels: politics

QOTD

"Profession: ex bartender"
- too funny POF online dating profile

All the shenanigans and all the trillions... can't our government at least pass a law that would spare me from spam that includes men in tighty whitey underwear?


QOTD2

"Freedom is just another word for 'time to kick your ass' "
- Captain Freedom

Book: "Captain Freedom" by G. Xavier Robillard
Review: 3 bill-stars (out of 5)... OK, worth reading (barely)
Website: www.captainfreedom.net

The author, G, is a blogger. No, of course I didn't know that before I bought the book. Who'd buy a book written by a blogger? I was just interested in parlaying some more immature male adult fiction. So, I lose.

It wasn't bad... a couple hundred pages of pop culture one-liners. OK, that sounds bad. Um, it wasn't bad because it was very light and sometimes funny. Phew. I was proud on a number of occasions that I had no clue as to the pop culture reference the guy was making. "Pat pat" on the back for me.

The WSJ is a "hot mess" this morning. Jeez.
I got nothing... no links, no list, no commentary, no more, no nuttin.
It's just a cesspool of leftie nonsense with a single common thread: increase the power of government, decrease the power of the individual (um, you and me).
total hot mess... yow, bill

PS - "ex bartender"... get it. I haven't stopped cracking up/smiling since I saw that one. What's wrong with me? Talk about an easy mark. So be it! He he.

Labels: 3stars, books, politics, qotd

S&P 500 at 1065. Yow!
A little investment blather as the market makes even higher highs for the year.

See the chart below... the spread between junk bonds and treasuries is at the same level as before the market crash of Sep/Oct last year. This means people aren't afraid of the planet going out of business any more. This is good.


Some of the financial blogs I troll have a decidedly bearish tilt. Cough. Here's a funny exchange I grabbed where a chap named "Sol" seems to lost a chunk of change shorting this bull market. Funny.

A little tech aside... the hottest book this year is "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown. I can't for the life of me figure out why he didn't just call his new book "The DaVinci Code 2" or something equally obvious. Anyway, the interesting techie thing is that, on Amazon, the Kindle version is outselling the hardcopy version (source). Another gray hair just popped out of my skull. He he.

QOTD

"Stealth paneling is incredibly difficult to find"
- Captain Freedom shopping at Home Depot, remodeling his secret HQ

Go market, go!
peace... yow, bill

Labels: investing, qotd, technology

QOTD

“I think it’s based on racism. There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
- Jimmy Carter on anti-Obama protests, source

It would be easy to say Jimmy Carter is a loser. Let's not go there. Rather, let's just say that Jimmy Carter sees the worst in people, things, etc. Malaise as (failed) president, and racism now.

My first presidential vote was in 1980 against Jimmy Carter. At 18, I sure didn't know diddly. But I was somehow smart enough to know that Jimmy Carter's blather was a loser.

I voted for independent candidate John Anderson in 1980, rather than Ronald Reagan. I have to admit, I don't recall the logic on that one. I can sort of assume that to a college freshman (me), Anderson was a more appealing, non-establishment candidate, but I don't honestly remember why.

And so, no Jimmy, most people aren't racists.
Most people simply and clearly disagree with a radical shift in how our country is being run.
Not too tough to figger out... easy as ABC.
anybody but carter... yow, bill

PS - williamt... not racist. He he.

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"I smell socialism... it's like the bathroom in a university library."
- Captain Freedom, almost the source

Public Service
Dammit, this is funny:


Aren't statistics great:

• Average fed guv employee makes $120K
• That's 2x the average private sector employee
• That's also $45K more than just 8 years ago
• That pay package is combined with iron-clad job security
  

"Public service"
"Pet peeve"
later... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"High-school graduation rates are lower today than they were in 1970."
- WSJ article, source

Another stat worthy of your consideration: public schools spend an average $10,000/pupil.

President Obama's solution:

• Hire Arnie Duncan, failed poo-bah of Chicago public schools, to head the Education Dept
• Give him $100B to piss away in the stimulus bill

Hope and change?
Are you kidding me?
And I'll be Mr. Bipartisan here... W's solution was to go watch movies with Ted Kennedy, spend a bunch of money for 8 years, and not get a dang thing out of it either.

Williamt solution (stolen):

• Give any parent that wants it a $5K voucher to educate their crappy kids wherever they please.
• Let the public school keep the other $5K.

Hey, the schools in Naperville ain't bad. Or Plainfield. Or tons of lily white suburbs.
IMHO, inner-city poverty and violence is rooted the inability of these kids, mostly non-white, to get a quality education.
Are these the last tendrils of systemic racism in the US? You tell me.
peace... yow, bill

PS - Hillary Swank (below) running away from Obama's anti-choice education platform... in her bikini, of course. He he.

Labels: politics, qotd, schoolchoice

QOTD

"I don't know. Cubs fans haven't won in 100 years."
- Lou, on the Pittsburgh Pirates losing 17 years in a row, source

The Pittsburgh Pirates have had a losing record for 17 straight years. No team in the history of US professional sports has lost 17 years in a row. That kind of surprised me... don't know why.

So, Lou brings up an interesting tradeoff. Would you rather lose for 17 years straight (the Pirate) or not win a World Series for 100 years (the Cub). In fact, the Pirate have won the World Series 5 times since the Cub tallied their title in 1908. Pittsburgh won in 1909, 1925, 1960, 1971, and 1979 (source).

I think I'll take the Cub over Pittsburgh. It's been frustrating... a century of foreplay. But it's been pretty fun and entertaining too.

Great idea
I grabbed The Bolingbrook Bugle at Portillo's... lunch reading material. There was an op-ed piece by some guy named Morgan Dubiel. I don't know who he is, but he had an idea that I'll bend and steal.

It's pretty simple... a school choice idea:

1) You can send your kids to public school, or
2) You can get a voucher for 1/2 of what the school receives for each kid

You follow that? Let's say crappy public school XYZ gets $10K/kid. If you want your kids to attend private/parochial/religious school ABC, then you can get a voucher for $5K and public school XYZ keeps the other $5K to spend on whatever even though your kid ain't going there.

So, pubic schools get a 100% funding advantage. Parents can stay in public school "for free" (cough), or get half their money out to make their own choice. Win-win right?

I know, I know... never happen.
I reckon a good percentage of public schools across the country would be shuttered in a generation or so. I'll also bet that we'd dent the fuck out of inner city poverty and violence in a generation or two as well.

As Spongebob would say, let's use our "imagination" and visualize a candidate that endorses choice in school and health care and lower taxes and... I'm probably a nut burger, but it seems like such a gaping hole in our political scene. I don't know.
imagination... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd, schoolchoice, sports

Too beautiful this Saturday morning to get all lathered up. But...

F the AP. Yahoo too.
This blaring headline made Yahoo's top 5 news items yesterday:


Now that's some fucking news, eh.
Alaska spent $40K to do stuff like: swear in the new guy, move Palin's family out of the guv digs, etc.

Yup, that's it. Front page news.
I get the whole media bias thing. I get it.
But the new level, a new low, that has been directed at Sarah Palin... that I don't get.

QOTD

"The price tag for moving Palin — the former GOP vice presidential candidate — and her family from the governor's mansion in Juneau amounted to roughly $3,328"
- F the AP

That's some hard-hitting shit there AP/Yahoo. Good for you.

Also.
Or should I say, even worse...

The AP just ran a photo of one of our guys dying in Afghanistan... like taking his last breath or something. The photo was published against the expressed wishes of the poor parents of the young guy who was killed. Of course, it was highlighted in the (POS) Huffington Post and (brace yourself) NPR.

The family asked them not to publish the photo, and they did. Can you imagine telling the family of a fallen soldier to piss off? How cold and callous a human being do you have to be? How out of touch? You have hundred, nay thousands, of photos, and the story of the war cannot be told without running this photo! That's just a lie. Or delusion.

I dislike politicians. But hey, that's their job.
The HufPo. Piece of crap by design. No pretense of being impartial or even rational.

But journalism. Journalism is the lowest of all professions. They pretend to be something (impartial) that they're not. Journalists could be providing an important service these days, but they don't.
f the ap... yow, bill

PS - Jeez, Sarah Palin is hot.

Labels: politics, qotd

80 years ago...

The great bull market peaked 80 years ago yesterday -- September 3, 1929. The Dow closed at 381.17. The crash didn't come until October. Three years later, the Dow was down to 41.22.

The Dow didn't make a new high until November 23, 1954.

- Source: www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2009/09/80_years_ago.html

No Great Depression 2 for us though. Hopefully.
How's this unemployment curve treating ya?

Source: http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/bespoke/2009/09/non-farm-payrolls-at-best-levels-since-lehman-bankruptcy.html

I'll have to do a Bill-investment post one of these days... what I've learned over the past year.
My end of the market-day trades are a-calling!
invest this... yow, bill

PS - Another crappy, lyrical QOTD

"I wanna tell everybody everybody
That you're so much more
Than they've ever even seen before

And I wanna tell everybody everybody
If they touched your hand
Then they'd never want to let you go"
- Sister Hazel, "Everybody"

Labels: investing, myphoto, qotd

QOTD

"By starlight
I'll kiss you
And promise to be
Your one and only

I'll make you
Feel happy
And leave you to be
Lost in mine

And where will we go
What will we do?
Soon said I
We'll know"
- Punkins, "By Starlight"

later... yow, bill

Labels: music, myphoto, qotd

QOTD1

"What they are trying to do is to create an America very unlike the America that has existed for centuries — the America that people have been attracted to by the millions from every part of the world, the America that many generations of Americans have fought and died for."
- Thomas Sowell

Hey, I guess these are pretty important times.
Another must read... this one from Thomas Sowell.


QOTD2

"The thing most associated with America — freedom — is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama’s vision of the country and of himself. But do not expect a savvy politician like Barack Obama to express what he is doing in terms of limiting our freedom."
- T Sowell

Cha!

If you are on the "other side", the leftie side, of health care, then Sowell should at least be informative to you about why people are passionate about this stuff.
personal freedom... yow, bill

Labels: healthcare, politics, qotd

I'm dehydrated. I'm disoriented. I've fallen and I can't get up.



I always panic when gmail is down for whatever reason (source).

Anyway, back to normal blogging here... according to Forbes mag (source)...

• 3.8 million people in the US weigh more than 300 pounds
• The average adult female in the US weighs 163 pounds, a new record

I check in at 170 these days. I'm not a big BMI guy, but I'm at 27%-ile (source) which is OK.
So, if I lose 7 pounds, I'll weigh as much as the average chick. He he.

I can't imagine being 3 clicks. It's like willfully disabling yourself or something. Jeez, life is hard enough on its own without working against yourself. And I know some people are into the whole "food addiction" thing, ala Oprah. All I can tell you is people never used to be addicted to food. It's one of those weird "things that have changed" in the last 47 years. I actually prefer Ray Kurzweil's notion that we are coping (not too well) with ultra-cheap food for the first time in our existence as a species. This will require a new, learned level of self-control. Anyway.

QOTD

"Everything in moderation"
- Aristotle, well sort of... I'm paraphrasing here

I totally buy into that. Thanks, Ari. I heart the moderation thing because you gotta add a dash of subtlety to "get" it. It's powerful if you do. But I gotta go chase 40-somethings right now, so later.

And I say huzzah to the monokini. Huzzah!
huzzah indeed... yow, bill

Labels: healthcare, qotd, technology