I don’t understand depictions of women or children or babies with over-sized eyes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them used in such a way that the image was enhanced; it always seems to me that the woman/child/baby would look much better with proportional eyes.

It is primarily for this reason that I do not understand the appeal of Precious Moments figurines to people like my mother and so I was deeply conflicted when I saw this “Alice in Wonderland” one in a Hallmark store:

Happily the price tag made me feel somewhat less conflicted. I can’t believe people spend that kind of money on those things.

During the ongoing debate about nationalized health-care here in the U.S., lots of people on both sides of the issue have been pointing to the nationalized health-care systems in other countries. This strikes me as somewhat odd as there is already a government run health-care system within this country, I speak, of course, of the V.A. hospitals. I think we should be looking to those facilities to get an idea of how such a system would work for the rest of the nation. The fact is our government has failed to provide an acceptable standard of care to our relatively limited population of veterans. There really isn’t any reason to believe they would do better for us all.