This picture of a wolf pack walking single file through the snow has been making the rounds on Facebook lately.

Despite the passage of the ACA and despite reams and reams of analysis papers, the task of containing costs still seems wildly out of reach.

According to this meme going around Facebook, the average hip replacement in the U.S. costs $40,364 while in Spain it costs $7,371

So I had this weird dream that I was at work. But instead of my usual office, it looked like the Whitefeather law firm from "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and it was a combination internal medicine-pediatrics clinic and dental office.

The words come bubbling up all of the sudden

I have finally found a synonym for my embryonic philosophy tha I've been calling "The Art of Not Wanting." Akin to Hindu and Buddhist ideals (where desire brings about suffering),voluntary simplicity is a lifestyle that eschews the excesses of the modern and post-modern era. It has significant bearing on the contemporary environmentalist movement as well as with its intersection with Neomarxism.

In case you didn't notice, I also switched my blog engine again. Now that Rails 2.0 is out, I thought I'd give Mephisto (from svn) another spin, and it seems to be working relatively well, much better than when I last tried it, although I still get the occasional 500 error.

So I was eating by myself at a restaurant the other day, and for some reason they were playing all these late ‘70s/early ‘80s songs, like “I Say A Little Prayer” by Dionne Warwick, and then “How Deep Is Your Love?” by the Bee Gees. The latter especially took me back to my early childhood. My dad used to own a blue AMC Concord and it had an 8-track tape player and I think he had tapes of Neil Sedaka, Kenny Rogers, and the Bee Gees.

Re: “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” . I can’t believe Ang Lee directed “Sense and Sensibility”