US. Rep. Barney Frank, I love you: CNN: Barney Frank goes toe to toe at health care town hall ...While Rep. Frank attempted to respond to a...

Once again, America is trying to revamp its disastrously weak and expensive health care system. I wonder if they'll succeed, but judgin...

It must be the winter blues.... Random notes: ...So anyway last weekend I got into my first New Zealand car accident , thanks to a teenager ...

OK, well, my father-in-law had surgery yesterday to remove as much of the brain tumour as possible, and it went well enough -- he's ali...

...It's been a bad week, and while I like to refrain from getting too personal and confessional on this blog, I do need to at least take...

No use crying over spilt milk ....So after a couple of months of quite painful stomach cramps and other fun stuff like that, and a few visit...

In which I spend (nearly) a week in bed with Pacino and Heston Urgh. What a fine week it's been. Struck down Monday by gastroenteritis ...

Stomachache, head wounds and "Crystal Skull" • Contrary opinions, vol. 1. I really should never read anything on the Internets, be...

Solace in the sickness ...Urgh, I say, urgh. Stumbling back to normalcy after a wicked case of the dreaded lurgy that I caught from the boy...

The eternal sickness Ye gods, it never ends. Despite this being, weather-wise, one of the better winters we've experienced in years, fee...

Land of the sick ...So most of last week, Peter was the sickest he's ever been, with various things coming out of all orifices, lots of...

Have I mentioned yet how much the American health insurance system SUCKS , and how very glad I will be to move to a country this October t...

LIFE: Things That Are Good And Not So Good AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Ah, the sun is shining in New Zealand and there's a foot of snow at...