Health Care Jobs Program?

Indeed. Our new health care system will essentially be the same Rube Goldberg machine we have now with a few improvements. Most of the waste will be still be there. There's a whole lotta people in the health care biz who don't do no health care. And not only that, the job description of many of those folks is pretty much to harass and waste the time of those few of us who actually take care of sick people. It's sort of a Republican make-work program. My only reservation about Dr Ross's article is about Medicare itself: Medicare is great for patients--there's no problem getting reasonable services approved. But, at least in home care, Medicare works real hard to find a way to not pay providers for services already rendered.
http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100808/OPINION04/8070349

Language Crank

"Homegrown" is tasty and...homey; "local," bland and merely descriptive.

After a Visit to a Country Where it Never Snows

In this latitude
wake to distant hammering
only in summer.

英語の日本の古典の詩

私は古典の短歌詩人たち(特にオノいいえの小町と和泉Shikibu)が好きです。 私は、あなたがそれらの仕事のバージョンが好きであることを望みます。 質問、コメント、あるいは批評〔非難〕が歓迎されます。

英文的中國古典的詩

有關我的著作的其中很多個評論在中文裡。這樣我嘗試用中文編寫一份小邀請。謝謝到的每個人評論了。問題，更長評論，或批評也是受歡迎的。我將樂意回答，如果我能。大部分我的著作是我的翻譯，或在英語中的版本， Du Fu，李 Bai，其他的中。但是我也編寫其他事情。如果你在尋找中國詩和你在第一個頁不找任何，看下一個夫婦頁。你可能很快將找有些。

And Even More Compressed

This world, I try not to see,
still dogs me like a shadow.
--Minamoto no Toshiyori

Another Tanka I've Translated into a Haiku--What Am I Missing?

Foam on the water
I am, that still wants to live
for a thousand years.
--Otomo no Yakamochi