A Little Ridiculousness for Tuesday...

This ranks real High on the "You've Got to be Kidding me Scale"
A spokesperson for Brad Pitt said today that the actor would have what was described as a "routine dental checkup" in the African nation of Namibia later this month.

The spokesperson, Carol Foyler, said that Pitt decided to have his teeth cleaned in Namibia because the Namibian government afforded the actor a higher level of security than the U.S. government was willing to offer.
"Namibia is willing to seal its borders for the entire duration of Brad's dental visit," Foyler said. "The U.S. was not."

Namibia said it was also prepared to put its military on high alert while Pitt was having his teeth cleaned and that it would enforce a no-fly zone over the dentist's office, Foyler confirmed.

please...

Tags: brad pitt, dentist, Namibia, Carol Foyler, celebrity

A Complex Fight

I just finished reading this MSNBC article about the Taliban's relentless efforts to limit and destroy educational facilities for girls through Afghanistan. Luckily the female students and school leaders are putting up a fight; they realize that educating women can give them freedom and opportunity to leave their heavily terrorized country and make changes; the very reason why the Taliban wants to shut them down. The whole situation in that country is too overwhelming for me to even fully grasp.

tags:Afghanistan , Taliban , Terrorism , Education , MSNBC , News , Women//'s Rights

Editors at People Magazine have lost their minds

my favorite quote of the day:

"Forget red hot or even white hot. Taylor Hicks is gray hot."

What were the editors of People Magazine thinking when they decided to name Taylor Hicks, American Idol's latest champ, the Hottest Bachelor of 2006? I mean, seriously...


tags: Taylor Hicks , American Idol , News , People Magazine , People , Celebrities , Hottest Bachelor of 2006

Authoring

So my wonderful husband just finished writing his first novel. You can read about it here. I can't wait to read it.

Healthcare for Everyone?

Healthcare in the U.S. is a mess. I have heard this said a million times before, but now that I'm in the bussiness, let me say: healthcare is a mess.

Real Example of the struggle...
Last night at the board meeting of the hospital I work at, a nonprofit advocacy group crowded the board's monthly meeting to demand that healthcare be provided to all residents of of our county, regardless of citizenship. While this group was very respectful in their presentation, emotions were very high strung. The reality of the matter is that the money to treat undocumented persons has to come for some where, and many of the same members of the adovcacy group who wanted changes (even those who were more affluent) were unsure if they would be willing to pay higher taxes to foot the bill for full medical services to undocumented persons.

Over priced, inaccessaiable to a large majority (I read a stat last week that said that some 40 percent of Americans do not have health insurance), and often struggling along side the immigration issue, there are no simple answers to providing medical care - preventative medical care - to Americans.

Anyone have any thoughts on the issue?

Long time no post

so...I have not posted in quite a while. I started a new job a couple of weeks ago, so most of my time has been spent acclimating myself to a new office and basically trying to learn as much as I can about my new employer so I can be a swell "public relationer."

And, truthfully, at this point my blog traffic has greatly decreased due to my lack of posting (and well, even if I did post a lot, maybe I'm kinda boring anyways).