No one in this country should ever have no options for where to beg for heath care.
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No one in this country should ever have no options for where to beg for heath care.
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Is at Lab Rat. It’s a very good one, please visit, click on all the links, digg/stuble/\/. and so on.
(Notice how I escaped the slash in slash dot.)
Because you are corrupt!!!! … it turns out.
(Watch the whole thing … Rachel gets really cute near the middle with a nice hat trick.)
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A part time teacher and US Census worker was lynched in Kentucky earlier today. The word “FED” was scrawled on his body.
Michele Bachmann, I wonder what your opinion of this killing is?
The AP and other agencies are just starting to report this.
M a-G vs. the Town of Bedford, New York. (See also this.)
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While I was living in an Armenian enclave near Boston, this happened: A Turkish-American jeweler with a shop in Somerville was driving his car somewhere around Medford, and was ambushed. Several bullets were fired into his car, killing him and totally ruining the Cadillac. The Armenians partied, and the secret organization of assassins took credit.
Please check out my latest post at Quiche Moraine. Thank you very much.
The H1N1 Rap was written, composed, produced, and performed by John D. Clarke, MD, FAAFP. This music video is a fun, highly educational, and entertaining way to learn about prevention of the H1N1 virus.
OK, I’m taking steps to avoid unnecessary confusion and ensuing chaos on this blog. From now on, if you are going to comment on this blog, the first thing you must do if to fill out this form:
Continue reading New Blog Rules
Sometimes people walk around with only half a brain, or a large portion of their brain disconnected, or simply having never developed, or an extra large brain, and we usually take little notice. But when there is a five or ten or twenty percent difference between two groups of people we are quickly willing to use that to decide (as in the Bell Curve) that those people with the (on average) smaller brain are inferior. The fact that all the well known studies comparing groups of living people that show such differences have been shown to be bogus (i.e. made up or doctored data) is often ignored.
Anyway, the following is the abstract of a 1998 paper by M. Henneberg that is still relevant of some interest:
Continue reading Human Brain Size: Does it matter? And has it decreased?
No one will take Muammar al-Gaddafi’s speech at the UN seriously because he is generally seen as a raving lunatic. And he might be. However, he made numerous valid points (not all of which I agree with). I loved the part where he threw the book over his shoulder.
Continue reading Muammar al-Gaddafi: Not a bad speech
This is the third of three parts of this particular falsehood. (Here is the previous part)
Continue reading Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) III
Are women less skeptical than men? Follow that link to find Stephanie Zvan’s analysis of the recently reported study that is making its way around the Internet. Stephanie seems to buy into the study uncritically, you know, like chicks tend to do …… NOT!
Sarah Palin gave her first speech outside the US, to the CLSA Investors Forum, in Tokyo, on Reqaganomics, China and Human Rights, Tibet, and the economices of the United States and Asia. She apparently also covered Alaskan Moose. The speech was 90 minutes long. Several people left early, there was apparently some kind of non-disclosure agreement because the press could not get most people to issue any kind of opinion, and those who did opine were generally non-committal with some mildly positive, some mildly negative. Opinions gleaned from the CNN story: