"I don't have time," is usually a lie.  "I don't have enough energy," is the true excuse.

I realized that I'm not writing often because I'm going to sleep early.  Best writing comes out at 2am, when I'm hungry, depressed, delusional, and smoking a cigarette. 

(it's been almost 3 years since I quit by the way)

1.  I don't understand why it's okay for the state of Massachusetts to mandate health insurance on its denizens but the federal government can't. 
2.  I don't understand why the federal government can send you to a war thousands of miles away from home, especially when it really has nothing to do with national security and it was waged based on faulty evidence, but it can't mandate health insurance. 
3.  I don't understand why the federal government can mandate education but not health insurance.
4.  I don't understand why the state of California can mandate car insurance for all drivers (virtually 100% of active working population) but the federal government can't mandate health insurance. 

All this, of course, is on the assumption that the supreme court will vote Obama care unconstitutional, 5-4.  (Ellito, Roberts, Clemens, Scalia, and Kennedy).  I really don't like Obama care all that much, and frankly speaking, I am repulsed by the idea that the federal government is making you buy private health insurance.  But isn't that what they're virtually doing already when the federal government builds freeways and buy fighter jets? 

This is my idea of health care.  There are two ideas, the first one being better.

1.  Make it completely national, just like the education.  All taxpayers must pay for their health care - it would be just like paying for education.  If you don't like the insurance, you can get your own private insurance on top of the government insurance.  It's like rich people (or Asians) paying for tutoring after school.  This is how it works in Korea, and though it has its faults, it's much better than current American health care, and Obama care for that matter.  

2.  Make it completely private.  It sucks but medicare and medicaid is unsustainable at this rate.

This is Nikon D800.  It is priced at $3,000.  It will take me 1 1/2 months of saving to buy this amazing work of art.  But unfortunately, It requires lots of friends as well.  Lots of expensive friends that is. 



Meet Nikkor f/2.8 24-70mm zoom lens, conveniently priced at $1,900.  So $4,900 is the least amount of money I can possibly spend if I were to make a switch to D800.

This is Nikkor 14-24mm zoom lens.  24-70 will take care of my basic needs.  I will take this lens with me when people ask me to take pictures of their baby or something, but 14-24 will allow me to take more creative pictures, like my landscape pictures that people love so much.  ($2,000)

And a light shed would be nice, so that I can have my own studio... $80
And a macro lens (to take pictures of small things)... $1,000
And one more flash... $546
70-200mm lens... $2,300
Fisheye lens... $600
Nikon D7000 as a Travel camera, since I don't want to get mugged in Mongolia... $1,300
Sigma 10-20mm lens and Tamron 28-75: 500 + 500 = $1,000
And a new tripod... $200
Filters, batteries, accessories... $200

What is that, roughly around $14,000 ~ $15,000?


So basically, I would have to save up for almost a year, just to buy some camera equipment.  The crazy part is, I'm tempted to do it.