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Georgian food experiment
Approximately two geological eras ago, Jose sent round a link to a Georgian food blog, which is clearly no longer updated, but has a lot of good-sounding recipes, several of which are vegetarian. I can't even remember the context, but I do remember bookmarking it, because I'd eaten at a few Georgian restaurants in Russia and Ukraine.
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Canadian health care
Obviously I know rather less about the Canadian system in practice than I do about countries I've lived in, but in the interest of improving the signal:disgusting blatant lie ratio here are a couple of links:
NY Times
LA TimesI do think it probably makes more sense for the US to end up with something like Canada's system than Britain's, partly ( Read more... ) -
How the NHS really works
There's a lot of nonsense being spread about the NHS right now. Not simply misconceptions, but utter shameless lies. I had been meaning to write a post about how it really works, because it seems like the one useful thing I can do to keep the healthcare "debate" well-informed (since I really don't have the expertise to comment helpfully on what's ( Read more... ) -
What I hear when people argue against universal health care
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"
"I know not," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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When I make my millions
I will invest in Las Vegas. I will build the "Seattle" casino hotel. Behind a half-size Space Needle, the ground floor will have a Pike Place Market theme, complete with that iconic neon clock, and plastic salmon being flown by wires over the slot machines. The second floor will have an indoor reproduction of Lake Union, complete with rentable ( Read more... ) -
Toxicology links
After work today, I went to a class about toxic chemicals put on by People for Puget Sound. It was a rather interesting presentation, and much of the focus was about explaining the problems to people outside the environmentalist community, which is definitely something we need to do more of. There were also some useful web resources mentioned, ( Read more... )
