Archive for September, 2004

More advantages of universal health care

Friday, September 10th, 2004

Higher quality hospital care.

Why don’t we have universal health care?

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

If we had a health care system like Canada’s, we would have a speedy and helpful emergency service!

State Fair food update

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

Today: Another Scotch Egg, deep fried cheese curds (too salty), and two more shish-ka-bobs. And a Mike’s Hard Cranberry Lemonade. Why I went back to the fair: went to the First Annual Bloggers Bash (or Second Annual, depending on when you tuned in to the Northern Alliance Radio Network show). Met and talked with The [...]

Work

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004

Well John, I’ve come to an end on my waffling of whether to dive all that way to your wedding. The answer? Work. I will raise a frozen otter in salute to you on your wedding day from Pine City. You were one of a couple time off requests I just had denied… I think [...]

Philly Considers Wireless Internet for All

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004

This would be huge, if it happens. It would also be a privacy nightmare. When you broadcast with wireless, anyone can listen. Wireless is great out in the country, or in ad-hoc conventions, but in a permanent setting it’s much easier to snoop on neighbors. I can’t imagine that they could integrate WEP into the [...]

Exactly.

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

Church Earns Mileage With a Gas Subsidy

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

When I read this article about a church that took over a gas station for a day and offered people gas at 40 cents a gallon cheaper than normal, all I could think of was that in California, if you took 40 cents off the price of gas, it makes it a few pennies cheaper [...]