Lord Have Mercy

I had to take my girlfriend to the emergency room last night (she's ok now : ), and since she lives quite near Mercy Hospital, a place that occupies priceless waterfront property just like Mt. Sinai on Biscayne Bay, that's where we went.

I'm just writing this to say how wonderful the staff was and how nice we found the hospital environment. My only concern was that our doctor looked like he stepped out of a soap opera, but that's pretty standard for Miami. People tend to be really, really, ridiculously good-looking here. I'm not sure that my girlfriend was paying attention to what he was saying, but the nurses that followed were conscientious and informative. A+'s all around, Mercy Hospital.

In their honor, I'm posting one of the most beautiful (Marvin Gaye) songs ever written (sorry about the cheesy sunsets, but this was the only one I could find with an embed code) -

Take It Off

I heard the news some time ago that those wacky Brits were planning on banning neckties in their hospitals, but now that might happen in the U.S. of A.?

Didn't we kick their butts and any vestige of their culture out 233 years ago? We don't even drive on the same side of the road! What's that you say? We speak the same language? Yeah, right. They think "subway" means "underground pedestrian walkway." It's obviously a purveyor of delicious, yet affordable, sandwiches.

Read all about it! Here

One woman has found a business opportunity in the infectious nature of neckties, by selling ones that have an anti-microbial coating on them. This is a hilarious way to end an article -

"She recently took delivery of the first shipment of ties bearing a design based on the H1N1 'swine-flu' virus. 'I'm so excited,' she says. 'H1N1 is a really pretty virus.'"