-and I don’t just mean to Apple*.
Republican Switchers: “George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism”… Reaganites, Conservative Jews, Catholics, even Lee Iacocca!!!
Daily Endorsement Tally: On ‘Super Sunday’ Kerry Makes Huge Gains– Yes! Yes! Yes!
* = Grammy’s lovely new Imac G4 arrived Thursday- […]

According to the Boston Globe “six second cousins” of President George. W. Bush have launched the website Bush Relatives for Kerry. That’s almost as good as Billionaires for Bush (which is a satire, the family site is nothing of the sort).
But better still (and again, not satire) is that the nation of Iran is […]

Political Wire’s Joke of the Day:
Q. What’s the difference between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War?
A. George W. Bush had a plan to get out of the Vietnam War.

I hope they don’t roll in the red carpet before I apply in 2006 - I’m ready to be wined and dined too!
For Medical Schools, Minorities Are the Star Recruits
By Juliet Chung. New York Times. October 13, 2004
After Stephen Haskins was accepted into the New York University School of Medicine last year, he revisited the […]

Med Students Seeking Less-Demanding Specialties
NPR: Morning Edition, October 13, 2004
An increasing number of medical students are choosing less-demanding specialties. Their preference for careers that leave room for families and other pleasures will likely mean that patients will have fewer primary care physicians to turn to…
“Less Demanding”? Hmmm… no thanks. I’m gonna be in primary care- […]

Kenya’s ‘Green Militant’ Wins Nobel Peace Prize By Emily Wax. Washington Post Foreign Service. Saturday, October 9, 2004
NAIROBI, Oct. 8 — Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan activist who founded an Africa-wide movement that empowered women, confronted corrupt officials and planted millions of trees in ravaged forestland, will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004, the Nobel […]

…so much for autonomy, that is, unless the patient is autonomously making a good decision, and one with which the doctor agrees…
On a Matter of Life or Death, a Patient Is Overruled -SANDEEP JAUHAR, M.D. Published: October 5, 2004
Mr. Smith could not breathe. Bright-red blood, filling up the air spaces in his lungs, was spewing […]

My Grammy turns 88 today, and my aunt drove out from the other side of the state to take Gram to lunch at Michie Tavern out near Monticello. So my grandmother is 2 shy of 90, but I’m the one feeling old. Went to see the Roots tonight on grounds. Little brother came with. We […]