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health news

For all you parents out there (and non-parents, too, really) some good news about SIDS, and the beginning of its end, perhaps.

And, perhaps, for those of you who would like your adolescents to come out of that age intact, this article may someday lead to an answer.

Finally, you may have seen this, but here's news of a cat that seems to know when people are going to die.

props to Coturnix, my science pusher and to Allan

string, meet finger

Okay, kids, a word of advice from dear old Uncle Dave: when you're out surfing, and you find something interesting, bookmark it. You can always delete the bookmark later on.

I say this because twice this week I've lost some cool things. One was a quote from Nietsche, which nicely summed up the dangers of political battle (i.e., becoming the very thing against which you battle).

The other was someone's interesting theory that Alberto Gonzales is in fact not lying to Congress, but that rather Congress is operating under the mistaken impression that there is only the one secret domestic wiretapping program. This person thought that perhaps there was a second, unknown program, so that whenever Gonzales gave his (carefully worded and always repeated word-for-word) answers that he was in fact not "lying", but simply answering a question which the Senators did not know they were asking. This doesnt make much sense, I know, but wherever I read this it made a lot of sense (because they were much better at this than I). I'll be darned if I can find it again, which is irksome.

quote for the day

This one's for Polanco, to use with grumpy old Uncle Logician:

I'm gonna be a little politically incorrect here and pull out a phrase that applies very well to the conversation: Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics--even if you win, you're still retarded.

"emkay" in the Phantom Professor's comments

classic!

props to Bitch, ph.d.

wow

I realize that I'm a landlocked lubber, and have only been to the ocean a half-dozen times, so maybe this is old hat for some, but I came across a photo of a container ship in a U.S. News article and was stunned at its size. The above photo is not from that article, but look at the size of that thing. Each of those boxes are things you see going down the road behind a semi rig. The rear-most layer alone is 80 containers. No wonder we dont screen all the stuff coming into this country, how could we?

quote for the day

People who cannot accept choice as part of responsible living cast themselves as victims. Victims blame others for their actions.

Harry Wong

junkies gotta jones

Until these are banned, America will not even be close to ready to give up it's addiction to oil.

This is not an ad on the side of a delivery truck, but rather a billboard on wheels, a rolling waste of fuel that has no purpose other than to be an advertisement while pumping more hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. When such things exist, how serious can any country be about saving fuel?

absentia

Terribly sorry, y'all, but just havent had time to blog lately. School's out, wife's home, and time's not my own; you know the drill.

Just to let you know that I'm still kicking though, here's a joke:

How many Polish Persons* does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to stand on a ladder and changethe bulb, and a second to watch
and deny that it is giving him an erection.

Oh, and as for David Vitter, I kind of thought that corruption, booze and hookers were Lousiana Family Values.


*Remember when you could say "polocks", and even Poles would enjoy the joke? Kind of like Aggies.

WAKE UP!!!

Patricia: My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

from Joe vs. the Volcano

I used to hear this quote and think, "yes, the world is an incredible place and people dont see it, they just take it for granted". The other day though, I was listening to yet another story of BushCo crimes and misdemeanors, and the phrase came to me again. People must be asleep for this to have gone on so long without a tide of outrage that pours into the streets and washes away not only the Administration, but all those that profited by it. That the Republican Party can act as it does, while decent conservatives stand by and watch; that the Democratic Party responds by enabling the Right's behavior, and drifting farther right itself; that torture is not only condoned, but performed by a nation that once prosecuted Nazis with righteous moral indignation...

I am amazed, truly astonished that this behavior continues in America.

I can only hope that America is asleep, because one can wake up, even from a sleep as deep as this one must be. My fear, though, is that this is not a nightmare we can wake up from, shaken but able to recover from; but rather that it is a fantasy, a daydream of hate and violence. I fear that we are deliberately listening to the voices in our heads, voices that come from the place of madness that can make the mentally ill truly dangerous. I fear we listen simply because it's fun, because it fulfills some whim or desire, and that as a nation we have become separated from the notion of consequences.

And while you're thinking of this, ask yourself why snuff films suddenly seem to be very popular.