I didn't black out my web page because, hello! need to make money! But I'm boycotting Twitter today (and boy, is that hard) and Facebook, and I signed Google petition, and wrote my congresscritters.

I have made job decisions based on health insurance.

I got married 6 months earlier than planned because of health insurance, and without Dan's insurance, I would never have been able to start my own business.

Perkins, I'm so sorry about Perkins Le Chat. It's always hard, even when it's right to do.

I didn't realize how much I use wikipedia until today, when it is blacked out.

If you really need wikipedia articles, you can look up the cached pages on google. Or use a different language, I think.

Popcorn eating has been going on for 1000 years more than previously believed.

Can you believe this mess?

Contrast with this.

So sorry about Perkins, Perkins.

Congrats msbelle! As an fyi, I pay about 140 a month for health and dental, but that's just for me.

Condolences for all the recently bereft pet owners. As someone else said, buffista pets need to not be doing that.

Much vibing for ita !'s mom, and anyone else who needs some -ma.

And that catches me up after a weekend down with the ick. This thread, at least.

Tom, what's your tumblr address?

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If you really need wikipedia articles, you can look up the cached pages on google. Or use a different language, I think.

I don't really NEED it. I just didn't realize how many times in a day I think of something I want to know just a bit more about, and then look it up on wikipedia.

One day last week I looked up selvage, Jordan Clarke, Melinda Clarke, John Clarke, List of Hunger Games Characters, Tenterhooks,Wes Bentley, the word "gloss" and "Scrum.

Tom, you have such a talent for composition and contrast. I love looking at your photos. You should see if you can't exhibit your work somewhere. I'd buy more than one HQ print for my house.

New Mexico is getting bigger.

Like a waistband after Thanksgiving dinner, New Mexico's borders are gradually gaining girth, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

It’s not much, and it’s not happening very fast -- the state is getting about an inch wider every 40 years -- but the state is unquestionably expanding, according to University of Colorado geophysicist Henry Berglund and his colleagues.

Using a collection of 25 extra-precise GPS receivers planted across New Mexico and Colorado, Berglund determined that the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe are creeping away from each other. The rate of change seems ever so slow to the untrained ear, described as approximately 1.2 “nanostrains” per year.

Maybe I should buy property there.

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