...and getting rousted by the police, no less. Who says children need to be sheltered from life's unhappier realities?
Some folks at Topless Robot have compiled 17 of the least obviously kid-friendly Playmobil sets, including hazmat team, suicide responders, bunny hunter, and crippling bike accident victim.
--Christopher Orr
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Interesting Details profile of a 21st century caveman:
Daniel Suelo lives in a cave. Unlike the average American—wallowing in credit-card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office—he isn't worried about the economic crisis. That's because he figured out that the best way to stay solvent is to never be solvent in the first place. Nine years ago, in the autumn of 2000, Suelo decided to stop using money. He just quit it, like a bad drug habit.
This is bad news for the Democratic reform effort: Gallup reports today that, according to its latest polling, more Americans than not think health care reform will hurt their own medical care and make it more expensive...though they think it will improve quality and access nationally.
So on the three main questions of health care--quality, access, and cost--people think President Obama's initiative will make things worse for themselves on all three fronts...and that itSource: Marc Ambinder RSS Feed
Our last full day in Michigan was Sunday and we decided to visit downtown Detroit and take a 2 hour narrated river cruise with Diamond Jack's. The cruise encompassed the area in the map below, starting right about where 375 hits the shore, going east up the Michigan shoreline, around Belle Isle, and coming west along the Canadian shoreline. It continued past the Ambassador Bridge before turning back east again along the Detroit waterfront.
It was warm but very windy - probably 20-25Source: HolyCoast.com RSS Feed
