It's not just the title of one of my favorite Richard Thompson songs - it's also the theme of my thoughts today.

Since coming into office, Il Duce Bush has continually insisted that we have the best health care system in the world. All this time, I thought he was saying this because he was bragging about it, and arguing for leaving it alone, rather than moving to one of those nasty government-run socialistic pinko health care systems that all Republicans loathe (you know, the kind of pinko health care system that they actually benefit from themselves).

I read through the new budget numbers, and I now realize that I completely misunderstood.  He wasn't bragging, he was complaining.  And by God, the decider is gonna do something about it, by making sure that we can't possibly have the best health care system in the world.

   Wisconsin's landmark land stewardship fund is up for reauthorization in 2007-'09 budget deliberations, with a key vote likely quite soon at the state legislature's Joint Committee on Finance.

The long-standing, bi-partisan program ensures that some of the best undeveloped areas in Wisconsin remain in the public domain.

Contacts to legislators in support of the program are vital: Gathering Waters, a statewide conservation organization, has posted information about whom to contact, and how.

No better time than now.