By Restless
There’s an interview with Noam Chomsky on AlterNet this past weekend. Mostly it’s about Iraq and our foreign policy worldwide. Chomsky’s take is that the true constituency of the Bush Administration (and, mostly, the Dems, too) is not us, the people. Corporate profits are what runs our politics, polls be damned. Let’s see if […]

By Restless
On October 24th 2006, Amillia Taylor was born at 21 weeks and six days. No baby born at less than 23 weeks gestation had ever survived, but 10 ounce Amillia was able to pull through (and even was trying to breath and cry on her own at birth). Hospitals had initially hoped to release […]

From The Star-Telegram: 
Some soaps, shampoos cause boys’ breasts to grow
BOSTON - Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases, apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study suggests.
While advising parents to consider the possible risk, several hormone experts emphasized that the […]

By Restless
Dangerous bacteria, resistant to all antibiotics, have benefited from our war adventure in Iraq. The Grand daddy of them all is something called Acinetobacter baumannii. It got its start (possibly) from some contaminated medical supplies shipped from Germany to a medical facility in Iraq, Ibn Sina Hospital, at the start of the war. Since […]

Sorry for the recent lack of posts to the blog,  2 days ago I got slammed with a pretty bad case of the flu, which I’m in the middle of now.   Sometimes it takes an effort to even sit and type, other times it’s a bit better.
I’ll probably be out of commission for the next […]

By Restless
This strip from Tom Tomorrow appeared a week ago. In California, Arnold has put forth a plan similar to the one now being tried in Mass. But since both measures are essentially appeasements for the insurance companies and tied to the citizen’s employer they will fail. A universal care measure passed by the Senate […]

By Restless
Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court, which struck down an onerous invasion of individual privacy in the form of a Texas law criminalizing what a woman chose to do with her own body.  Their ruling applies not just to women and abortion, but to all of […]

To find out if you’re colorblind, you can take this quick test here.
I’m curious to hear how you did,  in a lot of the questions I was able to see both numbers,  does this mean I’m not colorblind, and colorblind at the same time?
Or…  Does it mean I have super X-Ray vision?  hmmmm.

From YahooNews: 
Study: Laughter Really Is Contagious
If you see two people laughing at a joke you didn’t hear, chances are you will smile anyway–even if you don’t realize it.
According to a new study, laughter truly is contagious: the brain responds to the sound of laughter and preps the muscles in the face to join in the […]

From The WorldNetDaily:
A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals
There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it’s a “health food,” one of our most popular.
Now, I’m a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless […]

From The BBC: 
Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men
A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.
The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms.
It has […]

 
By Restless 
Even though Democrats won control of Congress, the Bush Administration is extremely active in many areas, not the least of which is the Christian extremist bugaboo, sex and reproductive rights.
These whack jobs are in a distinct minority, but they still have the power and the influence and it’s like when will it end? The […]

 
See! I knew it!  I knew I wasn’t 40 yet.  whewww.
From CNN.COM:
Americans: 60’s are the new middle age
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Cosmetic surgery is altering not just how people look but how they feel by changing perceptions of middle age, a new study shows.
Global research group AC Nielsen surveyed people in 42 countries and found […]

(The Political Ad)
From MSNBC.COM:
Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox political ad
Conservative talk show host accuses actor of faking Parkinson’s disease
Possibly worse than making fun of someone’s disability is saying that it’s imaginary. That is not to mock someone’s body, but to challenge a person’s guts, integrity, sanity.
To Rush Limbaugh on Monday, Michael J. Fox looked like […]