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Welcome! Once a journalist, always a journalist. I left the news business to try something completely different (for a time), but realized I still felt the need to keep up with all that's going on around us. So, this blog emerged as a way for me to filter some of what I feel is important, interesting or funny and pass it along to you. Enjoy! And, feel free to comment on any post.
Don't forget to check out my Arkansas posts at The ExaminerStephen Amidon has a really great, straightforward defense of Britain’s health services up at Salon, in response to wingnuts who trot out the so-called horrors of the NHS in their attempts to shut down American health care reform, of which no plan has much in common with the NHS. Which is too bad, because reading Amidon’s descriptions of health care access in Britain---doctor’s visits, hospital visits, home visits from the doctor, all performed with great care and minimal paperwork---will make Americans fill with longing, especially when [...]