Disturbing.

Rich get better access to diagnostic imaging, even though we have a publicly funded system that should be egalitarian. Here's André Picard's take.

More evidence that we still have a ways to go with our healthcare system.

House update

My aunt reports:

Today for lunch we had miroton and buns.

Dan worked on vapour barrier this morning. He says he has come to loathe vapour barrier "with a special passion."

Yesterday Dan and John did something with the plastic plumbing--sewer variety--which produced bad smells. Today they are sealing up things, have taken much hose over and are preparing for the pressure test.

Cheers all, Helen

Now, if only I knew what miroton is.

Am still feeling like I should be doing more vapour barrier than I am, but that's OK. I have to make the money to help pay for all this.

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I love Grist, I really do.

They depress me a lot of this time, like with this post on GM contamination of organic heritage crops.

But then they cheer me up with something like this: Black and White and Mad All Over: Unlikely allies send a dispatch from an enviro-justice tour in Michigan

Like they say, A Beacon in the Smog.

Some time I will discuss exciting things like our inevitable election (sigh). But not right now.