This article, Florida may have accidentally banned access to the Internet, comes from the Rachel Maddow show.

 The lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on behalf of Incredible Investments, LLC, owned by Consuelo Zapata, alleges that the Legislature effectively applied the ban to all computers when it defined illegal slot machines as any “system or network of devices” that may be used in a game of chance. The state effectively made every smartphone and computer an illegal device, the plaintiff argues.

Just one more thing we northerners must be wary of when we vacation in Florida.  I am sure that none of my relatives who live in Florida would ever consider playing a game of chance on the computer.  However, that still may not absolve them of the crime.  The device is illegal if it “may be used in a game of chance”.  So even if you don’t actually use it in a game of chance, it is illegal.  Sort of like possessing marijuana even if you don’t smoke it?

CBS News has the story, U.S. health “mediocre” compared to other wealthy countries.

“The United States spends the most per capita on health care across all countries, lacks universal health coverage, and lags behind other high-income countries for life expectancy and many other health outcome measures,” wrote the authors of the new report, published June 10 in JAMA.

Don’t bother me with facts. We all know that the US has the best health care in the world. Karl Rove told me so. These people must all be using fuzzy math.

No socialized medicine could possibly beat the free market system we have. All the Republicans in Congress know that. Government simply does not work. Every time you give the Republicans a bit of power they easily demonstrate how government does not work. Even from a minority position, Republicans have a ready supply of monkey wrenches to throw into the gears of government. When will people ever learn?

Free market!!!! Free Market!!! FREE MARKET!!!