Huge Sigh of Relief

After a brief bobble, the court passed the Affordable Care act. That was a really touch-and-go thing, and I've got to give Obama huge props for getting it passed: this is something the Democratic party has been trying to do since Truman.

I know that the opposition is still gunning for "Obamacare," especially now that it's being equated with taxes, but me? I kinda like the idea of the mandate being lumped in with taxes. Because that is the first fractional step towards single-payer, tax supported health care. I would love to see that come to my country in my lifetime.

In the meantime, I don't know what is more tragicomic: all the people squealing that they're so horrified by health care reform that they're going to emigrate to Canada with its single-payer "socialist" health care, or that Romney's official platform is now "Vote for me; I'm the only one who can stop the health care reform that I initiated."

Talk me out of this

Or maybe talk me into this. I'm reading in clusters these days; a whole series of books on a theme at once. Which is fine as a concept, but I've got a heck of a lot of books in the To Be Read queue, so will anyone talk me out of buying and mainlining The Turn of the Screw, Florence and Giles, and Maybe This Time, in that order?