My horse is winning!

(For a particular definition of winning) "One of our opponents is also the quasi-incumbent in the race, who in our belief will and should lead just about every national poll from now until the Iowa caucuses. Expect nothing different and attach no significance to it"

This is the first time I've donated money to a political campaign. It troubles me that it felt more like voting than voting does. _
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09:23:33 AM, Monday 2 July 2007

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A health wonk on Sicko, making the same points I was trying to make back in the universal vs. single payer thread. _
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07:10:32 AM, Monday 2 July 2007

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Some people are afraid of spiders or snakes. I'm afraid of carp. Which makes this one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen. But Obama is against them! You'd better believe I'm voting for him. _
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10:39:53 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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Does leaving clothes in the washer overnight do them any actual harm? _
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10:16:33 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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The swans were addressing a dog. Quite vocally. _
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09:53:16 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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I like it when swans menace something other than me. In defense of the dog, he seemed far more interested in frogs and turtles than in swans. From what I could tell, the swans just came over and started heaping abuse upon him. Interestingly, they got really tense when he was on land and half hidden behind shrubbery. This may explain what happened to the other 3 from this brood. Please note the tongue. I went to rather a lot of trouble trying to get one with the tongue properly out. _
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09:52:47 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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1 down since last week. _
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09:52:23 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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Their official weekly portrait. I've discovered that swans look far more pleasant with their heads cropped off. _
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09:51:46 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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5 cygnets

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09:50:03 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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My camera ate some pictures, and some of the ones it didn't eat have bits of other pictures stuck in them. All my algae pictures and turtle pictures from this morning are gone. _
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08:48:36 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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"It's civilised to queue, it's glorious to be polite." This sort of thing would be cute it if wasn't terrifying. Or would it be terrifying if it weren't cute? Seeing the Yin Yu Tang House in the Peabody Essex museum, a rural chinese house the province had shipped here to raise awareness of chinese architecture, complete with it's trappings of 200 years of chinese history, I've been finding such things less adorable. It's a terrific exhibit, maybe my favorite museum exhibit ever, in fact. Chinese architecture is in fact beautiful and alien, but beyond that. It manages to convey the shock of western contact and the creeping horrors of the cultural revolution beautifully, without really being about that. And even what was good about the revolution, and what was nasty about the traditional culture. History lies thicker on buildings than on artifacts, I suppose. But also, what has happened to China in the past 200 years is just so much larger and more shattering that what has happened here. _
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06:54:55 PM, Saturday 30 June 2007

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WBUR had a nice local story today on Sicko, where, while discussing one of the inevitable deceptions (Canadian ER room waits), Mr. Moore explains why we need him editing reality. "My job is to provide the balance." _
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01:09:49 PM, Thursday 28 June 2007

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