NASCAR 1: Planned Parenthood 0, What if nurses got paid per patient instead of by the hour, Culling our Platys...

• I read on the internets that the House voted out Planned Parenthood, and is continuing to fund NASCAR. What's that all about? I've never been much for either -- parenthood or NASCAR -- but how have our priorities gotten so effed up? I personally don't consider NASCAR a "sport" per se, although yes it does take some skill -- right up until you run up against a RIGHT turn -- but, hell, the only way I'd get into it is if they required the drivers to txt while they drove, or if the audience got to throw obstacles randomly into the road.
• I wonder how much health care would get fixed if nurses got paid via capitation (per patient) rather than by the hour, or if physicians got paid by the hour instead of by capitation. I mean, let's just say a nurse is paid $30 bucks an hour for a 12 hour shift for taking care of five patients. That comes out to $72 bucks per patient. I wonder, as much as we nurses do belly-ache about patient safety and all that, how many of us would take another patient (or more) to get another $72 (or more) a shift. More interestingly, I wonder how many of us would choose to get $72 per shift less in order to be assigned one patient less? I'm totally not saying we should do this, but I wonder how the discussion would change, if it would change at all?
•  We just had to thin our population of platys in our 10-gallon fish tank. We started out with several species of fish, but over the past couple of years, everyone died out except for these Platys. They just kept breeding, and at this point there must have been 70 fish (most of them juvenile) in the tank (along with one bad-tempered Beta that probably hates kids). We looked it up on the internets, and it seems one of the more humane ways to euthanize tropical fish is to drop them into ice water (actually the most humane methods were clove oil or a fish anesthetic called MS-222 or alcohol -- we had none of these). But it still felt strange catching 10-15 baby fish and dropping them in a bucket of ice water. A bit traumatizing, considering how much heartache we go through when our goldfish die.
• I have been playing iTunes, and for whatever hellish reason, I keep playing the theme song from The Sound of Music over and over...