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So here’s what happened.
Back in May, I hadn’t planted anything but a few containers: tomatoes, lettuce, basil, parsley. We’d been thinking of moving, plus I just hadn’t had time to plant the plot we’d used last year.
Suddenly, wooden markers appeared around my garden plot. They were marked “driveway.”
You see, our house has two in-law-style apartments [...]

The media are still talking about Michael Jackson’s death, and it’s not just on Inside Edition. Today, even our local newscasts were letting us know that the autopsy report has been delayed.  It gets old. But then, it’s all Michael all the time at our house anyway.
I was 10 years old on December 8, 1980, [...]

The current U.S. health care system isn’t working. The health care reform bill under consideration now might help, or it might be too little too late.
Many countries use a single-payer system, which sounds good. The government collects taxes. The government pays for health care. The people pay nothing (aside from the taxes) or minimal co-pays [...]

Health care is the topic in the U.S. government right now, thanks to President Barack Obama. Congress is doing the dirty work of writing up a health care reform bill, but Obama’s insisting that it be done by the end of August (because without a deadline, nothing in Washington gets done).
Government involvement in health care [...]

I can’t believe TechnoEarthMama is almost one year old! That means it’s time to renew my web hosting. Would you like to help? I’ve placed a handy “Hosting Donations Accepted” button on the right side of the page, so if you enjoy TechnoEarthMama and would like to help out, you can donate directly to my [...]

With the new national jobless rate at 9.5%, critics are saying that President Obama’s economic stimulus package isn’t working.
That’s highly debatable. It could be that it’s really not working. It could be that the federal stimulus is keeping things from being much, much worse. I’m not sure how you’d measure that.
Regardless of this argument, what [...]