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Sicko, Psycho: what’s the diff?

I’m pretty sure when Michael Moore proposed that America’s healthcare system adopt the model of the NHS in Britain —

Now, the British system is really government-owned, in the sense that the government owns and runs the hospitals, the government employs the doctors. And so, they work for the government, so it’s very much a government-owned and -run and -controlled program in Britain. And again, you know, everything is free.

— he wasn’t thinking of this guy and his pals:

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Drop and give me 1,800!

. . . words, that is. There’s only one profile remaining for me to write for the Top Companies issue: Pfizer!

(I save the biggest for last; that’s just the sorta guy that I am.)

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Mistakes were made (by me)

Here’s a neat little article on Warren Buffett’s willingness to learn from his mistakes.

 A key to investing well is a willingness to look stupid, Buffett says. “Most managers have very little incentive to make the intelligent-but-with-some-chance-of-looking-like-an-idiot decision,” Buffett wrote in 1984. Most would prefer “failing conventionally.”

He added: “Lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.”

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No hike

I know I graced you guys with two straight weekends of great hike photos, but that streak comes to a close this weekend. What’s sad is that the weather today is absolutely gorgeous, and there are plenty of trails to hit.

However, I’m rendering unto Caesar this weekend, laying out the pages for that Top Companies issue. It requires a ton of nit-picky work, and if I don’t get this part wrapped up by tonight, it’ll be much tougher to finish the whole shebang before July 4th.

So, no great outdoors for me this weekend, but I promise to get out and take plenty of photos as the summer progresses, provided it doesn’t get beastly hot out here.

Meanwhile, here’s a pic of My Favorite Mermaid at last weekend’s Mermaid Parade at Coney Island:

Her group was Charlie’s Angelfish.

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Virtual Memories Can’t Wait

Ahoy, ahoy, dear readers! Sorry about the lack of posts. I’m afraid I’m utterly swamped with that Top Companies issue of my magazine. There’s still a huge amount of work to do (writing two more major profiles and two minor ones, then laying out all the pages for production), so you won’t be hearing from me much until next week.

But I do invite you to check out the blogroll over on the right. There are plenty of neat websites over there, including a few new additions. A few years ago I decided to overcome the monotony of business travel by stopping at airport newsstands and buying magazines about subjects I had no interest in. I’d try to read them cover to cover during these trips.

It seemed like a good idea until the time I saw a pilot at the newsstand, searching among the gun magazines.

So go click on a link you don’t think you’re interested in. It’ll be fun; trust me!

(And I promise I’ll be back with Unrequired Reading on Friday morning!)

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Good night, Rabid Wolverine

Amy & I were clicking around the TV tonight when, on a whim, I stopped on Monday Night Raw. I saw Vince McMahon tearfully talking about all the contributions made by someone named Chris.

You never know when you see one of these if it’s just a bit. But it turned out that one of my favorite rasslers, Chris Benoit, was found dead in his home today, along with his wife and his 7-year-old kid. Right now, there’s no word on what transpired or how they were found, except that they weren’t shot to death.

The first time I saw Benoit perform, he had just come over to the WWF along with Eddie Guerrero (dead of a heart attack in 2005), Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn, who were known as The Radicalz (I found their politics to be quite mainstream). Eddie was the most popular of the four, probably due to of his latino appeal, but Chris could get anyone over.

Condolences to the remainder of his family.