Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom...

Via Jim M.  Don't miss the last one!

The Female Perspective on Shopping...

Via Jim M.:

A woman was in town on a shopping trip. She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third, everything had been reduced by 50 percent.  Then her cellphone rang.

It was a female doctor notifying her that her husband had just been in a terrible car accident and was in critical condition and in the ICU. The  woman told the doctor to inform her husband where she was and that she'd be there as soon as possible.  As she hung up she realized she was leaving what was shaping up to be her best day ever in the boutiques.

She decided to get in a couple of more shops before heading to the hospital. She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her trip with a cup of coffee and a beautiful chocolate cake slice, compliments of the last shop. She was jubilant. Then she remembered her husband. Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital.

When she arrived at the hospital, she saw the doctor in the corridor and asked about her husband's condition. The lady doctor just glared at her and shouted, "You went ahead and finished your shopping trip didn't you! I hope you're proud of yourself!"

She ranted on: "While you were out for the past four hours enjoying yourself in town, your husband has been languishing in the Intensive Care Unit! It's just as well you went ahead and finished, because it will more than likely be the last shopping trip you ever take! For the rest of his life he will require round-the-clock care. And he will now be your career!"

Feeling guilty, the women broke down and sobbed.

The lady doctor then chuckled and said, "I'm just pulling your leg. He's dead. Show me what you bought."

Ouch.  But (if you're of the male persuasion)...doesn't it sound, well, plausible?

BPotD, Again...

An American native in Pakistan (via Botany Photo of the Day).

Gorgeous!

More photos at the link...

Taxing Medical Technology...

The Obamacare bills currently wending their way through Congress all have provisions in them that would tax the medical technology that has done so much to extend our lives and reduce our suffering.  Just on the very face of it, this sounds incredibly stupid to me.  Taxes always discourage innovation and development, because they reduce the financial rewards to entrepreneurs.  Our overlords may not like it, but those evil financial rewards really are the engine that drives the amazing economic machine that is America.  The medical technology industry is but one example.

Amazing for now, at least.  The bills, if enacted, will do their bit to make America's economic machine less amazing.  Smart entrepreneurs will gravitate to other industries where they can make more money.  If our policies are bad enough, they may even migrate to other countries with less stupid policies.

2012 can't come soon enough.  Let's hope the mid-term elections next year send such a clear signal to the liberals that our drift towards socialism is turned around...

Good discussion at TigerHawk...

At a Tea Party in Quincy, Illinois...

Courtesy of Instapundit, who attended: