Boo Waaa
So ex-Rep. Foley says a priest molested him. Well boo fucking WAAA, you ratfink. There’s nothing I find more reprehensible and slimy than a person who comes up with some great past wrong done to them as some kind of balm for the rancor that follows a hideous act. I have no beef with homosexuals [...]
Medical breakthrough
Everybody’s talking about Gardasil — the idea that vaccinating girls and women against the Human Papillomavirus might encourage them to be slutty. I’d like to point out, simply, that Motrin doesn’t encourage people to have migraines, that antibiotics don’t encourage people to get urinary tract infections (or syphilis, for that matter), and more directly, that [...]
Underage boozers fill alcohol industry coffers
Science Blog: Underage boozers fill industry coffers Underage drinking contributes an estimated $23 billion yearly to the alcohol industry, more than 17 percent of the total consumer expenditures for alcohol, according to an article in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Ironolicious
Rush Limbaugh was arrested today on perscription drug charges. I guess his dreams of rounding up & punishing U.S. drug offenders are coming true. Good for you, Rush!
Watcher in the Skies
Cnet is reporting that a House of Representatives panel heard testimony on Wednesday (3/29/06) on using UAVs, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, to perform border security and domestic surveillance. That buzzing sound? That’s just some FISA judges hitting the bottle. Move along, citizen.
Followup: Ms. Fire Thunder and the Oglala Sioux Planned Parenthood
I guess it’s followup Thursday! kathrynt at livejournal took the initiative and contacted Oglala Sioux president Cecilia Fire Thunder directly, asking how interested parties could support her. All contact information is listed in her blog entry. kathrynt also adds, She was frankly kind of surprised that a white girl from Seattle was calling to express [...]
CNN headline on Miers: “What Doomed Her Nomination?”
Gee, I’m no expert, but I’m going to go ahead and humbly posit that it’s because she was a dubiously-qualified administration crony with undocumented legal opinions, less-than-stellar credentials and a sub-top law degree nominated by a president with a history of appointing dubiously-qualified cronies whose best-considered quality was loyalty to the administration. But that’s just [...]
Reaching for my tinfoil hat
CNN Says: President Bush said Tuesday that the possibility of an avian flu pandemic is among the reasons he wants Congress to give him the power to use the nation’s military in law enforcement roles in the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 bans the U. S. Armed Forces from acting as law [...]
Their incompetence is no secret
Then why does the Bush administration keep using the State Secrets Privilege to try and cover their foibles?
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Hurricane Rita is at this moment the third most intense storm the National Hurricane Center has ever recorded, a Category 5 monster that’s steaming towards the Texas coast. As one would expect following (well, really, during) FEMA’s Katrina debacle, all levels of government are standing up straight and manning their posts. What I’m thinking is, [...]