Quick Hitters

With two little girls, a business to run and more transcription than I know what to do with, things have been pretty crazy in my abode, and my poor blog is sprouting cobwebs worse than the ones sold at Wal-Mart for the Halloween season.  No matter how small my readership is, I know some of you visit on a frequent basis, so thanks for keeping the faith.  


I just have a few brief thoughts on some news items that you are probably familiar with.  I'll hyperlink when appropriate; otherwise, you'll just get to hear me jabber on!

• A Facebook friend made a great point on her status today:  In a nutshell, Ed Rendell is asking sick folks to stay home and recuperate without spreading H1N1.  The friend thought it "funny" that Rendell can say this to folks living near or below the poverty line while he earns six figures.  How sad is that?  Job security is shakier than ever, and yet we feel that we have to choose between spreading our germs or keeping our jobs.
• Is it me, or does the sex offender/missing child ratio seem to favor the Florida area more than most?  Another day, another child dies at the hands of some sicko in that Southern state.  Yet another Facebook friend posted what she'd like to do to these people, and I can say that some very bad thoughts indeed have crossed my mind if someone were to get their paws on my girls.  
• I think everyone should be able to have health insurance.  There was a time when I faced a lapse in coverage, and it was awful.  But I'm not sure the Dems have the right idea with this public option.  For starters, the deficit has swelled to the amount it was after WWII.  That is a right large deficit for me, my husband, children and children's children to pay off.  Insurance companies have gotten much too powerful, but then again, I don't want to stay in the public option if I leave my job, especially if I can afford a private plan. 
• Did anyone else cheer when Ken Lewis (Bank of America CEO) resigned from BofA, and then pay czar Kenneth Feinberg asking him to pay back $1M in compensation?  And then did anyone get SPITTING mad when we found out his compensation package ($69.3M)?  Look, you need to pay good money to good businessmen and entrepreneurs who can help create jobs.  But when he turns into a crook who is making me pay 25% interest on a debt incurred from a failed business attempt, with no late payments or other blemish on my perfect credit record, then I wonder how BofA can afford to give that compensation while posting a third-quarter loss of about $1 billion?  No one wins.
• H1N1.  I'm not vaccinating against that or seasonal/regular flu.  I'm not against it, but I've got worries about vaccinating against a virus.  That said, it's killing people my age, so I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried a little bit. 

What a boring post!  Compared to some of my last posts, I guess I have slipped into the dreaded direction of talking about what everyone else is talking about.  I guess my creative juices are being milked directly into my daughter (pun intended).  One of these days I will write about some of the great links my husband sends me from physorg.com - now that's some interesting reading, if you know where to look - like this article about a study one of my former professors recently completed.  If there's a link you click today, it should be that one.