spring is coming

3-18-09—Terminallly ill cancer patients who drew comfort from religion were far more likely to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care in the week before they died than were less religious patients and far more likely to want doctors to do everything possible to keep them alive, a study found. NYT A18 they know the types who populate Heaven
--French unions plan a nation-wide strike Thursday to call for a tax increase on the rich. WSJ A1—la lutte continue!
--Some bailout money is set aside to pay firms that bet housing market would crater. ... In essence, while the US government is trying to prop up the housing market—by trying to limit foreclosures, among other things—it is simultaneously putting up cash that could be used to pay off investors who bet housing prices would tumble and many mortgage holders would default. -- WSJ A1—laissez faire!
--Pope Benedict said condoms weren’ the answer to Africa’s fight against AIDS on his first trip there as pontiff.—WSJ A1—to Heaven with this man!