One of the interesting things about the way politicians work is that once you have sent them an email, even one that was protesting a stand of theirs, they feel the need to add you to their email newsletter list. For this reason, I am always intrigued by the way these newsletters are used to try to position themselves in…
I think I posted this once before over on Coffee Muses...But it says a lot so let's spread it around some more...
I am not sure what it says about me but I grew up reading Eliot Coleman in Organic Gardening & Farming and The Mother Earth News...I believed what he had to say then and the intervening years have only made his philosophy ring truer...Here is a video I just discovered...
At least 69 people have become violently ill — 34 of them hospitalized — after eating uncooked Nestlé’s Toll House cookie dough. At least nine of those victims suffered kidney failure, as a result of a virulent form of E. coli. Nestlé USA has recalled more than 300,000 cases of the product since, even after cooking, the E. coli could…
The whole reason I set this site up in the new format last fall was because it would be easier to update...Since then life happened and I just realized I haven't. Updated the data that is. So today I did...Update that is. Now, unfortunately, that doesn't mean everything is up to date...No, that would be too easy. My Ancestry.com subscription…
Just more fuel for the reform fire... As health care reform moves forward, Congress must impose tighter regulation of companies that clearly are not doing enough to regulate themselves. Creating a public plan could also help restrain the worst practices, by providing competition and an alternative. A House oversight subcommittee took a close look at a particularly shameful practice known…
Health care in 1960 was between you and your doctor. Just what conservatives say they want to preserve. Everyone had a doctor patient relationship...It was usually something you grew up with. And the uninsured office visit cost about $15...And almost all of America was uninsured.
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