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Good to hear that AED's are being deployed. I was an EMT in the early 1990's and had considerable experience using the "HeartStart" model. The new ones are even better. The only caveat I can think of is that people need to be cautioned not to use one on someone whose heart is actually beating! I suspect that if the new AED's read the heart rhythm, they won't shock a patient who doesn't need it.

My basil (purple ruffles and genovese) was doing great until a week ago, when I came back from a three day business trip to find them literally blanketed with Japanese beetles. About the only good thing I can think of is that the beetles were concentrating on the basil instead of going after some other things, and basil grows so fast from seed that I just planted some more. No one within three counties of me has Japanese beetle traps for sale any more, though. Nasty little things.

But are they out in the street screaming? They are not. They’re hunkered down, nervously hoping that the destroying angel has passed them by, and this will be as bad as it gets.

And by the time they realize what they have done, it may well be too late to undo it.

Wonderful nostalgia. In 1956 I wrote a school column for a little weekly in Florida. I got the assignment because the editor observed me on the sidewalk with my nose pressed against the glass window staring at the linotype, and invited me inside to look around. Much later I operated a Model 1250 Multilith for a community newsletter, and a good old Varityper for the headline copy. I set the body text on an early OSI computer with a proprietary text editor, and printed it on a NEC Spinwriter, serial number 3. That thing was built like a tank; a fluorescent light fixture fell on it one night and broke the cover. I called NEC to find out how much a replacement would cost and was told that "our printers don't break." They sent a replacement cover free of charge. Sheesh, those were the days.

Two brief comments: IMNSHO, Bush is publicly supporting Rumsfeld (regardless of what he might have said in private) so that when Rummy does resign, he can appear to be doing it "for the good of the country," instead of being canned.

Secondly, thanks much for the bumper sticker ("Bush has no honor"). It's been ordered. I tried to make one at Bumperactive.com, but their user agreement restrains one from using "defamatory language." I didn't think I could in good conscience agree to that, since that was exactly what I meant to do!

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