Also, there’s this:

Hey, remember back in May when the Supreme Court majority told women who experienced employment discrimination to suck it up? And then Ruth Bader-Ginsburg called on Congress to change the law? Well, the House listened, and it has passed such remedial legislation 225-199, which would treat each successive paycheck as a fresh new [...]

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Addendum

Some additional stats:

Americans will spend $250 billion this year in out-of-pocket health expenses. This is in addition to premiums.
36 million American adults under the age of 65 are carrying medical debt. 25% of those carrying medical debt owe more than $4000. 3.5 million Americans are carrying more than $10,000 in medical debt.

According [...]

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SiCKO procrastination

I’ve been putting off writing about SiCKO because there are so many things I want to say about it, and I ought to keep it short but I don’t know where to start. This means I may be flogging this topic sporadically for the next several years. Which happens anyway, since some of the [...]

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Super summer weekend

This is what we had for dinner Saturday night, plus some excellent cole slaw (recipe here). If that doesn’t say summer, I don’t know what does. Sunday morning I whipped up some blueberry muffins and chicken salad, and we packed up our tote bag and headed again to the beach. It was [...]

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mmmmmph….mmmmph…shuffle shuffle

A few nights of poor sleeping has finally gotten to me. Nothing productive to be done today except laying about, reading, hoping to fall asleep. Why can’t I sleep? See below, artist’s rendering of Spouse, who is, shall we say, a very active sleeper. Bless his heart.

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Friday garden blogging

Other folks sometimes (though seemingly, not lately) do Friday cat blogging; some do ferret blogging; some even do Friday orchid blogging. Alas, I have no living things to be responsible for other than myself and the stuff in the backyard. And hell, all I did there was to plant stuff, fertilize it haphazardly, [...]

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This just in…

If you have peaches and blueberries delivered to you from a farm, you will eat them, and end up enriching your diet with all that good stuff you’re supposed to be eating but never take the time to pick up at the grocery because the peaches they get at the grocery simply aren’t worth the [...]

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Freecycle may be the coolest thing ever

I had this sewing machine:
It was really good to me for a couple of years, and then the bobbin seized up. And then Mom and Dad got me a new one. And now I have an extra sewing machine I’m not likely to ever use again. What to do? Craigslist? Doesn’t [...]

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Blarg.

That’s a phonetic approximation of my current mental state. My list was not so cross-off-able yesterday. I wrote 3 paragraphs again, but ended up having to totally ditch one after I went back to a book for clarification on one law, and discovered I had it all wrong. Disheartening to say the [...]

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There’s a first time for everything…

For the very first time today, I made an actual phone call to an actual elected representative about an issue important to me (the SCHIP reauthorization). I may have had to spell my name five times in a row for them to get it down, but I did it. I feel so democratic!

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