This is the definition of irony.

I was watching an ABC news report about a program in Michigan where a medical school is re-training laid-off auto workers for jobs in nursing. Of course, the health-care industry is on the rise and the report mentioned that experts predict a shortage of nurses of the next few years. Meanwhile, the staggering growth of the cost of our nation's health care is one of the key factors that's been crippling the American auto industry (well, that and the fact that they make cars that most people don't want--but cost more for less quality). So naturally, these folks are jumping to the growth industry… The one that helped consume their former employers. Some days, it seems like our health-care industry is going to swallow our economy whole; that we'll all wind up doing nothing but working to take care of each other, rather than making things.

CDs listened to today:

• Kai Winding: The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones
• Dmitri Shostakovich: The String Quartets, disk 5