Catching my breath and catching up
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 20:27 It took nearly 18 hours to get home to Reno, Nevada from Ft. Meyers, Florida yesterday … yes, that’s the way it is when you ride on a pass. We finally made it into Reno at 9 p.m. and were completely exhausted.
I’m moderating comments this evening on my blog post about this absurd idea that women under 50 don’t need those silly old mammograms. Too many false positives! Too expensive. Too many unnecessary biopsies!
Here’s a suggestion: quit killing the mammogram messenger, and start talking about new national best practices and a single standard of care that must be adhered to nationwide.
Read the mammogram post just prior to this one for more.
The Denver airport is the lamest modern air terminal I’ve ever been to. Unless you really need to route through there, I would recommend against it.
Florida is still the credit card fraud capital of the world. My step daughter and her fiance couldn’t use their debit cards half the time, for the credit card company putting a block on it because it was being used in Florida. When Mr. Maven and I got home, there were two messages on the phone from Visa wanting to make sure that we were actually using our card down there.
But gee, “the weather is so good”. Sigh. It seems to me that there’s a lot of great weather in a lot of better places.
You must read the November issue of Harpers. It’s quite simply the best magazine out there right now. I read it front to back. The best articles: “The War We Can’t Win” by Andrew Bacevitch and “Wrinkle in Time” by Steve Mills. Bacevitch nails the problem with Afghanistan so elegantly, you’ll ‘get it’ unless you’re unconcious. Mills tells the decline and death of the American newspaper through the lens of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Well, it sounds like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV) is really kicking butt and taking names, and becoming the leader that I’d hoped he would. They’re damn close to a cloture motion which would allow for a vote on Saturday (gasp!).
