Big business is too often problematic, despite everyone not working for a problem company. If it was always fucked, then we'd be just be worse off.

I'm so putting off checking up my insurance status with respect to deductibles, etcetera. I don't know why! It just feels more grown up than I can bear with being this week. Just way too much hospital, doctors, and health issues.

Remind me to back away slowly from Facebook arguments with wrong-headed people.

PS, if attacked, I feel fairly certain that we (Canada-we) would get support from other members of the Commonweath. Who also have militaries! Go figure!

Plei, that person is just impossible. Omnis is such a tolerant, open-minded person that he doesn’t filter any of his political posts and welcomes the debate that ensues with some of his very politically conservative friends. The person who is driving you crazy right now--unlike some of the other people who I disagree with, but respect--is neither logical nor very good at listening. He is a troll. Just walk away. That’s what I had to do.

I always feel guilty when the maternity leave/insurance/OccupyWallStreet type stuff comes up. I work for a big old corporation that has provided me with excellent benefits, a great salary, and flexible work schedule for almost 11 years now. So how can I complain about big business, even though I absolutely see how they play a big role in the inequities of our society?

Because of that! Those things affect you too, and people you care about.

It kills me how we have this instinct to feel guilty when we're treated decently, instead of just outraged that it's not the norm. (Or the uglier side of that coin, that we/someone should feel grateful and not make waves.) Ugh. I haven't figured out a way to excise those reactions from my psyche.

PS, if attacked, I feel fairly certain that we (Canada-we) would get support from other members of the Commonweath. Who also have militaries! Go figure!

Oh god, still?

Yeah, I sent my one last link to CIHI's most recent study (and DIDN'T point out that, in addition to having a LOT of family up there, I also have a lot of family and friends of the family who are MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, as is my mother, and therefore, the level of discussion and knowledge in my sample set is occasionally pretty damn good) and am calling it a day.

It's not perfect, but it's also not a disaster.

Man, if this were silver-toned, I'd be so tempted...

Hi, everyone! We had a good day shopping around Edinburgh today. However, we're so burnt out that we just stopped at the closest restaurant to us, which had the worst Italian food ever. Tomorrow is going to be a crazy day of trying to get from Edinburgh to Glasgow airport. Wish us luck!

The postcards all went out today as did a wee little royal wedding package for the Empress. I hope everyone gets what I sent out!

Man, if this were silver-toned, I'd be so tempted...

Guh! That is beautiful, but I would also want it in silver.

So, TCG is out enjoying a cigar. Do I 1. Get dessert in the bar. 2. Take a long hot bath. 3. Organize my luggage?

Man, if this were silver-toned, I'd be so tempted...

If that was silver-toned, I would be adding it to my cart right now.

Oh, yeah, I saw that whole thread, Plei, and I think you did as good a job as possible under the circumstances. My fl is thick with the crazy politics on both sides, so I just can't engage at all. Although I do say it amuses me to have any issue invariably spring up with strident arguments on both sides, each phrased with language that assumes that I, the reader, agree. One post by my anarchist buddies followed by one by my conservative hometown school friends.

Also it makes me deeply glad I didn't end up with my last boyfriend before the SO, because that guy is way off the deep end. And I'm pliable. I could totally see how my views would have developed differently had I not been exposed to things like the music festival that radicalized me or, for that matter, you guys.