Hitting the Road, a Road Trip to Pay for Health Insurance

So, an interesting opportunity sprang out of nowhere as I was returning home on Sunday following a really pretty wonderful, long Thanksgiving Weekend with Family . . . A friend out of the blue called me, asking whether I’d be interested in driving his new wife’s father’s car down to Florida for the winter.

The immediate reaction was, “Huh”, followed by, “Gee, that’s a really interesting opportunity.”  It took only about a day to figure out it was a great way to do, i.e. achieve, something really pretty simple and straightforward.

You see, my health insurance just went up this past month, [ more . . . ]

President Obama’s Speech on Afghanistan Tonight at 8PM

Remember, and listen carefully tonight, it’s what the hell we’re doing there in Afghanistan, i.e. the Mission, that’s what’s important, not necessarily whether we pull troops out or put more in.

For more in-depth perspective on Afghanistan, here’s a recent article, “Outside Thinking on the Inside of Afghanistan . . . What To Do?”, that tries to get to the nitty-gritty details of formulating a strategy that works.

I don’t like having troops there, either.  I wish the Bush Administration had not dropped the ball by utterly ignoring its responsibilities in Afghanistan.  But it’s the situation we find ourselves in, and [ more . . . ]