INTERESTING TIMES

We all know that the hospital is the last place you want to go, unless you really desperately need to be there. That's where the gnarly infections live.

Healthgrades compared mortality data from hospitals across the US and rated them all. I'm pleased to say that Memorial in Chattanooga, TN, made the list, as well as the Mayo clinic hospital in Phoenix, AZ. The Great Lakes region has a top 50 hospital in every state. Ohio and Florida had the most top hospitals (per state). Not a single OR, WV or NY (et. al.) hospital made the list.

--H1N1, type A
--California, Texas, Kansas, New York, Ohio
--http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm

Nice bit of work here, with some funky music and groovy graphics inspiring you to vote, and then some snippets from the news in Florida (in 2000) and Ohio (in 2004) and elsewhere, from actual elections here in America that were obviously FUBAR. Worth a look, I think, just to keep in mind that it is not our imagination that there has been foul play with our elections.

COLUMBUS - Despite a federal judge's order to preserve all ballots from the 2004 presidential election - in which Ohio provided President Bush's margin of victory - boards of elections in 56 of Ohio's 88 counties lost, shredded or dumped nearly 1.6 million ballots and election records.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070812/NEWS01/708120449