I know the work you do Janie, and I respect it.

I recall a discussion I had with a friend in my university days in which we considered issues of magnitude for a paper we had to do. He also was about 15 years older than the average university student. (I was in my 30s when I went to school.) I felt that nuclear weapons and the assorted politics that accompanied WMDs was threat one. He replied that he thought poverty was threat one, because their bomb had already dropped. I've never forgot that. And today, for 49,000,000 people in the US living below the poverty line, the bomb has dropped--something you live with daily in your profession.

I recommend the 6 1/2 minute cartoon Sandy linked to in the 09 Oct 11 - 01:25 AM post. It was from a speech by Tommy Douglas, and as Sandy pointed out, Canucks are pretty proud of him, and we should be, imo.