If anyone has wondered where I disappeared to, the picture tells the story:
Last Friday, at the end of a six mile walk in Golden Gate Park, I crashed onto my side on an asphalt road, broke my hip and cracked the head of the long leg bone, and embarked on a new exploration of both my pain tolerance and involuntary participant research into the US health care industry. After four days in a Kaiser hospital for surgery and immediate stabilization, I'm now in a rehab facility learning how to walk safely while healing.
All this is tiring. I'm giving myself what will probably be a ten day break from posting here. We, the American majority of the sane and the kind, have got this foul national situation in hand and we aren't going to let the bad guys keep us down ...
