In the ongoing healthcare debate, the “opt-out” provision is the hot ‘solution’ to the dispute over a public option plan for the health insurance exchange. Here’s how proponents explain it: The public option would be part of the health care reform package, but individual states could opt out of including it as part of the [...]
In wonderland, flowers grow to a 12-inch diameter and birth a second, guided by misty grey morning light and their DNA. In another part of wonderland, homeless families hang back on the periphery of the Farmers’ Market, looking for whatever they might get from the kindness of strangers and merchants.
Hopefully the worst of this has passed with diminishing wind gusts tonight. However, we now have to turn our attention to Orange County and pray that San Diego is spared this time. The current Santa Ana wind condition is erratic and unpredictable. Wind gusts are carrying burning embers across valleys, freeways, and homes. Please be [...]