Air travel  Frequent flying and snowy weather have conspired to
give me some free reading time. Gladwell's Blink just arrived
from Amazon, even before I finished The Youngest Science.  I
also received Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being for
Christmas. The book is about a doctor who writes a newspaper
article. Also, there's some sex. And a discourse on whether
Jesus had functional intestines (it's a "novel of ideas").
Anyway, here's the excerpt I thought medibloggers might want to
mull, after the main character publishes his political article:
"Perhaps his deep-seated mistrust of people (his doubts as to
their right to decide his destiny and to judge him) had played
in part in his choice of profession, a profession that excluded
him from public display. A man who chooses to be a politician,
say, voluntarily makes the public his judge, with the naive
assurance that he will gain its favor. And if the crowd does
express its disapproval, it merely goads him on to bigger and
better things, much in the way