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Category: Health Science

Because who cares about antibiotic resistance (cough cough cough)

The FDA has been signalling since the late 70s it was going to rescind its ruling that it's safe for agricultural feed makers to include penicillin and tetracycline in feed, since it's been obvious for at least that long that it's only adding to the number of bugs out there resistant to those drugs.

Alas, it's now signalling (nearly below the radar) it's not going to do anything about the matter any time soon. Which is stupid, but I'm sure will make agribusiness happy. #ddtb

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Maybe Sebelius Will Overule the FDA Again (on Antibiotic Resistance)?
Let me get this right: Plan B–bad and the FDA should be overruled; preventing needless antibiotic use in agriculture…also bad but should not be overruled? In fairness, I don't know if Secreta…

Battling a black market in Cheetos

Actually, the problem presented in the article is twofold:

1. A lot of the kids are used to eating chicken nuggets and frozen pizza and microwave corn dogs and the like at home. So, not surprisingly, they think other stuff is icky when it shows up at school.

2. The menu itself is less of a problem than the execution. Either the cooking isn't being monitored, the cooks aren't being trained properly, or the dishes aren't being selected for an institutional prep setting. (That's supported by folks who thought the voting samples were good, but what's actually served is not.)

I support the schools trying to come up with healthier fare for the students they are serving (there is no constitutional right to be fed nacho cheese Doritos), but to be effective, both of those factors need to be considered. #ddtb

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L.A. schools' healthful lunch menu panned by students
It's lunchtime at Van Nuys High School and students stream into the cafeteria to check out the day's fare: black bean burgers, tostada salad, fresh pears and other items on a new healthful menu introd…

Autism, diagnosis, and social factors

It's easy to say that someone does, or does not, have, say, a broken bone. Or measles. When it comes to something like autism, though, which lacks concrete diagnostic factors (it depends on behavioral observations and judgments, not on culturing things or X-rays or looking at blood under a microscope), it's not so clear a matter. As the below article (in turn pointing to some LA Times research) indicates. #ddtb

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Are there more people with autism, or more people diagnosed with autism? – Boing Boing

In sickness and in health

It's been long known that marriage makes for healthier individuals, overall. Life expectancy is higher among married couples than singles, etc. Whether it's a matter of general happiness, or having someone else to care for you, or whatever, it's a pretty clear effect.

So it's not at all surprising that the same would pertain to gays who marry. Which adds a whole new humanitarian wrinkle to the question of marriage equality. Is it morally defensible to deny gays the same demonstrable health benefits that marriage provides to straight couples? #ddtb

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Gay marriage 'improves health'
Legalising same-sex marriage may create a healthier environment for gay men, say US researchers.

All your medical treatments and diagnoses are belong to us!

Wow. Medical patents? Really? Because this doesn't sound like something that could end well for anyone except Big Pharma. Yeesh. #ddtb

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Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered whether to allow patents on a physician's use of scientific research to inform treatment decisions. Several groups wrote briefs opposing such patents, but th…

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Brain and Brain! What is Brain?!

No real surprises here amongst the "Brain Myths," but a good reminder about over-popular pseudo-science, how poor most science reporting is, and the power of memes. #ddtb

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Nine Stubborn Brain Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked by Science
Brain games will make you smarter! The internet is making you dumber! Alcohol is killing your brain cells! The brain is a mystery we've been trying to solve for ages, and the desire to unlock its secr…

Literal paternalism

I would hope that, prior to 17, if my daughter had a concern that required emergency contraception that she would come to my wife and/or me for assistance. If she didn't feel comfortable doing that (not beyond the realm of reason), I would hope she would do what she felt had to be done, and that she would be able to do so.

Apparently Pres. Obama's fatherhood trumps my fatherhood (perhaps he's a father of two daughters), and he gets to decide what restrictions my daughter has on her options. He's decided to support (if not order) his HHS Secretary to override the FDA scientific and policy analysis that it was safe and helpful for "Plan B" emergency contraceptives to be available over the counter. Instead, Plan B will only be available to her, until she's 17, with a prescription. Which means she has to come to us, and has to get an appointment with a doctor first; or, alternately, go without and deal with a pregnancy.

Barack — will you be available for other fatherly decisions and caretaking of my daughter? I mean, if that's the job you're angling for, maybe you can help her get ready for school in the morning, too, or harangue her to keep her room clean. Otherwise, thanks for nothing. #ddtb

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'As a Father of Two Daughters,' Obama Embraces Politics Over Science on Emergency Contraception | The Nation
The FDA made the right decision on EC—and Obama rejected it.

Objects in mirror may be larger than they appear

Note that these figures are largely self-reported. And the numbers are in centimeters, I hasten to note. #ddtb

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Europe According to National Penis Size | Alphadesigner Blog
Europe According to National Penis Size. Posted on March 25, 2011 by alphadesigner. Last week when I featured The Penis Size by Country World Map I forgot to mention that I felt slightly disappointed …

The GOP War on Nutrition Continues

Every time Michelle Obama opens her mouth to suggest that, y'know, maybe feeding kids junk food every day isn't good for them, the Right immediately screams out that she's some sort of Nutrition Nazi, out to rob kids of their God-endowed Freedom Fries.

And in keeping with that tradition — and Ronald Reagan's famous classification of ketchup as a serving of "vegetables" — we have this: Congress (led by the GOP, but acquiesced to by the Dems) "unraveling" Dept of Agriculture's proposed higher nutritional standards for school lunches paid for by federal grants:

"Food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes, and some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn't be telling children what to eat."

Except, of course, that the federal government is paying for it.

Listening to the food industry flacks defending the nutritional value of daily french fries and tomato paste would be hysterically funny, if it weren't kids ending up as the target of it. #ddtb

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Pizza is a vegetable? Congress says yes
Congress wants to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.

Okay, I'm ready for an anti-fat pill

Yes, if this proved safe, I'd take it.

And by "proved safe," I mean "Has been out in the open market for a decade or so with no proof it increases cancer, shrinks brains, explodes spleens, etc."

But, yeah, given that caveat, sure. Why not?

#ddtb

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New obesity drug cuts off the blood to your fat supply
News about anti-obesity drugs is pretty common, but many of them never make it past the testing stage in rodents. Now, a new fat-fighting drug has passed the primate test:

Breasts, an Infographic

A subject I take a keen, some would say obsessive, interest in.

(via Onlineschools.org) #ddtb

Unblogged Bits (Tue. 25-Oct-11 1130)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. What people do when it snows – Bah! It’s usually Twitter, unless I decided to upload a picture to Flickr …
  2. Market Instability and the Plight of the Rich by David Atkins – Eek! The ultra-mega-rich are sometimes dropping down into being only mega-rich because they own so much on the stock market! Sometime they even have to sell their private jets! Weep, my nation!
  3. High-speed videography reveals how mosquitoes fly in the rain [Video] – Fascinating.
  4. Science proves that getting silicone injected directly into your body is a bad idea [Plastic Surgery] – “If you really, really want cosmetic surgery, don’t get it done on the cheap.” Words to (literally) live by.
  5. Thermostat Automagically Learns Your Heating Habits [Video] – Cool! And … um, warm! No, I’m all in favor of inductive learning by devices, vs deductive rules that users have to key in (and, often, don’t).
  6. Jan Eberly: Is Regulatory Uncertainty a Major Impediment to Job Growth? NO! – Don’t get your facts in the way of my talking point!
  7. Warner Bros Steals A Move From Disney, Will Pull ‘Harry Potter’ DVDs Out Of Circulation December 29 – Warner Bros doesn’t consider there is an active market in used DVDs out there. And I don’t think they are going to have the Disneyesque patience to restrict availability in the vault for that long.
  8. Slaughtering horses for meat is banned in the U.S. Why? – Slate Magazine – I don’t think I’ve ever eaten horse meat, but I don’t think I could muster a reason not to given the other critters I’m willing (and often eager) to consume.
  9. Del Taco – I’m not a fan of the “before” logo, but the “after” one strikes me as anything but an improvement.
  10. Thanks to anti-vaxers like Jenny McCarthy, measles outbreaks on the increase. – Dolts. Idiots. And, potentially, killers.
  11. Our Tax Money Funds A Government Surveillance Center In Lower Manhattan — And Wall Street Is Part of It. Why? – Best city government money can buy!
  12. Northern lights go way, way south – Hmmm … thinking we should be able to see this, maybe, from the Denver area (except for the city lights).
  13. Rick Green: Drug-sniffing dogs come to Wolcott High School, with a twist. – Hartford Courant – Endless weasel-words here from the superintendent, all of which boil down to, “We thought lying to the kids in a scary way was a cool idea, no harm, no foul.” Great lesson plan.
  14. Officials use ruse at high school to clear halls for drug search – Actually, a valuable lesson served up to the kids here: some authorities will, in fact, lie to you and play on your fears in order to get away with what they want. Not a nice message, but a useful one. Of course, now I expect to hear about some kid being hurt in a real intruder incident because they thought it was just more administration drug-searching bullshit.
  15. HOWTO take over your neighbor’s stereo: Cory Doctorow
  16. Gatwick airport took away my belt buckle: “I stick to what they’ve told me. I’m not going to speak to you anymore. Not if you’re going to publish it. I’m not speaking to you.” – Security Theater: It’s not just an American production.
  17. NPR finds GOP Sen. Marco Rubio misinforming about his family history again: John Aravosis (DC)
  18. Consumers shifting money from big banks – It would be nice were it so. I suspect there will be a substantial bump, but not enough to change the big banks’ behavior (except, perhaps, to “force” them to raise fees further because of some loss of business).

Unblogged Bits (Fri. 21-Oct-11 2330)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. Superhero Shows: Space Ghost and Batman Join Forces! – Wow. That was … awesome. Goofy, but awesome. (I was SUCH a Space Ghost fan as a kid.)
  2. Massive 15-year study finds no link between cell phones, cancer – Again.
  3. Why Republican Criticisms Of Ending The Iraq War Are Disingenuous – Well, yes, but “Republican Criticisms” and “Disingenuous” is pretty much redundant.
  4. Teacher Intercepted Love Letter Is Genius – Heh.

Unblogged Bits (Tue. 11-Oct-11 1730)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. Fischer Plays The Victim, Decries Romney’s Rude and Insulting Attack On Him – Amusing — because when Bryan Fischer talks about tacky, impolite and rude language that completely and utterly lacks class, he speaks as an expert.
  2. Protesting in America: admin
  3. Bryan Fischer Pleads Ignorance About His “Poisonous Language” | Right Wing Watch – Sorry, Bryan — playing the victim just doesn’t cut it.
  4. Rep. Buck McKeon: No Defense Bill Unless It Bans Same-Sex Marriages By Military Chaplains | ThinkProgress – Well, next time someone talks about who’s being supportive of the military, we know a person to point at in the negative.
  5. Former Ex-Gay Ministry Leader Comes Out, Recants Previous Teachings | ThinkProgress
  6. Cagle Post » Christian Heaven for Buddhist, Steve Jobs – Some of these (and there are many others on the web) can be seen as simple cultural shorthand, and others as humorous jokes. On the other hand, imagine the reaction in some quarters about a cartoon of a dead Christian showing in a Muslim heaven, or circling around again on the Wheel of Life, or some other non-Christian afterlife setting.
  7. Georgia Considers Replacing Firefighters With Free Prison Laborers | ThinkProgress – Yes, this is an insane idea with all sorts of crazy aspects (e.g., would you welcome fire fighters into your house if you knew some of them were prison inmates?) … but at least IT DOESN’T RAISE TAXES, SO IT’S THE AMERICAN WAY!
  8. Robert Jeffress Has a Lot of Nerve | Religion Dispatches – More on the silliness of defining Who Is a True Christian(TM).
  9. Colorado Supreme Court could take on medical-marijuana appeal – The Denver Post – It seems to me that if it is not criminal to possess legally obtained marijuana for medical purposes, then unless an employer can demonstrate the employee’s performance is impaired, it should not be grounds for firing.
  10. How texting is changing the world [infographic] – Holy Kaw! – Cool.
  11. Futurity.org » Immunity ‘trick’ turns off peanut allergy – Cool!
  12. Eric Cantor Explains the Difference Between the Tea Party and the Occupiers – Short Cantor: “Because the OWS is against Other Americans, while the Tea Party is against THE EVIL GOVERNMENT!!!!!!”
  13. US ties Iran to plot to assassinate Saudi diplomat – The Denver Post – (1) Yikes! (2) How dare another country stage an assassination on US soil?! We’d never — um … (3) Article followed by one comment saying it’s all a Obama hoax to bolster his ratings, and the another saying that the US must immediately declare war on Iran. sigh
  14. The Fox Poll on OWS – And, yes, Internet polls are freaking useless. But this it’s always fun to see something like this.
  15. Why Believe In Keynesian Models? – NYTimes.com – “Because they work.”
  16. A Peek Inside A Christian Right Anti-Gay Strategy Session – If “Marriage is a ‘pre-political’ institution, and therefore not a civil right,” could not the same be said for race (which obviously is “pre-political”) or, for that matter, religion? Or perhaps some would like to argue that racial equality and religious freedom are not civil rights, either.
  17. Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s – I remember using Mosaic. Plus, of course, some of the WWW alternatives, such as Gopher and Veronica. Good times …
  18. Microsoft finds 64 billion fewer spam messages per month after botnet takedowns – Spam delenda est!

Unblogged Bits (Wed. 24-Aug-11 2330)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. There’s a time and a place for this sort of thing, and it’s called “College” – HA!
  2. Wendy Wright’s New Job: Stopping The Girl Scouts’ “Radical, Feminist, Pro-Abortion” Agenda – Yes, you should just hear my daughter lecturing us on the need for taxpayer-supported abortion, lesbianism classes in public schools, and buying more boxes of Thin Mints.
  3. ‘Joe the Plumber for Congress’ Could Actually Happen [Candidates] – Oh, for crying in a bucket … FIFTEEN MINUTES, PEOPLE! IT’S UP NOW!
  4. The concept car that survived a civil war [Monterey Auto Week] – Weird … and cool.
  5. A Man Found a Mysterious, Possibly Mafia-Connected Safe Inside a Casino Wall and Plans to Open It Live on the Internet [Security] – I vote for the “disappointing” option (sadly). You don’t bury a safe behind an wall (without a door) to hide it; you do that when it’s too inconvenient to move during a renovation.
  6. Combat Cavities By Re-Growing Your Decaying Teeth [Science] – Ooooooh …
  7. Ineffable Aether – Light in the Dark – Greg Rucka on the issues of grittiness, sophistication, and the Hollywood machine. Good stuff.
  8. David Foster Preparing to Pitch New ‘Star Trek’ Series – I’d certainly welcome and watch a new ST series — if it were any good. And I’d give it a try regardless.
  9. Leaked Cable: McCain Promised Qaddafi To Help Secure Military Equipment From U.S. – Maybe McCain can be asked about this during one of the next of his several dozen appearances on a Sunday press show. HA! Of course he won’t be.
  10. Feingold’s Progressives United To Push Dems To Walk Away From Bad Super Committee Deal – It’s nice to think that the Dems could actually stick together that well. I’ve yet to see it happen.
  11. Senate holds first non-ceremonial session off Capitol grounds in nearly 200 years – 2chambers – The Washington Post – “We were able to conduct our business …” of playing politics in obstructing recess appointments. Yes, great job, guys, in continuing the (political) business of the Senate, even in the face of natural disaster.

Unblogged Bits (Wed. 17-Aug-11 1731)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. First Glimpses inside J.K. Rowling’s Magical Online World of Pottermore – Hmmmm. Not sure it’s my cuppa, but it could be fun.
  2. Palin tour comes to abrupt halt – POLITICO.com – Again? Ho-hum.
  3. POTUS Addresses ObamaCare: ‘If the Other Side Wants to be the Folks Who Don’t Care – Fine With Me’ – That’s moderately clever of him. If he sticks to it.
  4. Dogmatic Arrogance: The Picture of the 2012 Presidential Elections – “The vice of refusing to compromise is the vice of arrogance.”
  5. Eric Boehlert: Did News Corp. Cover Up U.S. Computer Hacking? – I certainly wouldn’t be surprised.
  6. What does Android, iOS say about you? [Infographic] – One of the attendees at our meeting pulled this infographic out, which raises a fair amount of discussion between Android owners like me and Those Other People.
  7. Big Tobacco Sues FDA Over Ghastly Warning Photos – While I have a small amount of appreciation for the cigarette companies’ argument here — the fact is, they are cigarette companies and deserve anything that comes to them. That’s not a reasoned response, but it’s mine nonetheless.
  8. Disney Exec Says Tentpole Movies are About Spectacle, Not Story. Is He Right? – The list indicates to me that spectacle might get the first weekend or two into the theaters, but story on top of spectacle are what drive subsequent weekends, repeat viewings, video purchases, etc.
  9. ‘Lone Ranger’ May Not Be Dead Yet – Still shaking my head over Depp as Tonto.
  10. Missouri School Sued For Allegedly Making Special Ed Student Write Apology Letter To Her Rapist – (Grinds teeth …)
  11. TOM THE DANCING BUG: Hey, Kids! The World You’re On… has CORPORATIONS! – HA!
  12. Improved dating process upsets timeline of Moon formation – See? This is the cool thing about SCIENCE: it keeps looking for answers, even if it knocks down previously accepted answers in the process.
  13. Obama NM campaign manager publicly blasts Krugman, liberal blogs, insinuates comparison with Teabaggers: John Aravosis (DC)
  14. When Rick Perry Badmouths The Stimlulus Package Remember That He Benfited From It – Actions speak louder than ugly words.
  15. Airman Goes AWOL In Germany Because Internet Says Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Fake (VIDEO) – Regardless of whether he’s AWOL or not, I’m glad he’s no longer authorized to bear firearms in defense of the country.
  16. The Daily Mail knowingly and commercially used my photos despite my denying them permission. – Stay classy, Daily Mail!
  17. Geller: Republicans Allied With Norquist Are Tied To The Muslim Brotherhood – Aw, c’mon, Pam, do NOT make me actually say something in defense of Rick Perry …
  18. Homeopathy multinational sues blogger over statements that its mythological curative had “no active ingredient” – Homeopathy strikes me as one of the biggest scams of all time.

Unblogged Bits (Thu. 13-Jan-11 2230)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. Life Without Left Turns | Surprising Science – Um, wouldn’t roundabouts be another way to address this?
  2. Harry Potter villain FINALLY allowed to tan after 10-year ban | Blastr – The down side of being in an wildly successful film franchise.
  3. Stingray Nebula
  4. AFA Blog: It’s Not Genocide If God Tells You To Do It – Well at least they’ve chosen a refreshingly open way to address some of the horrors in the Old Testament. Yeesh.
  5. Wiley Drake Focuses His Imprecatory Prayers On Fred Phelps – Man, I hate it when I don’t know who to root for …
  6. Conservative Blogs Unleash More Animosity in Reaction to Obama’s Speech – Stay classy, Lunatic Right!
  7. U.S. income distribution (2010 edition) – “Most people imagine that the rich are in heaven, but, as a rule, it is only a gilded hell. There is not a man in the city of New York with genius enough, with brains enough, to own five millions of dollars. Why? The money will own him. He becomes the key to a safe. That money will get him up at daylight; that money will separate him from his friends; that money will fill his heart with fear; that money will rob his days of sunshine and his nights of pleasant dreams. He cannot own it. He becomes the property of that money. And he goes right on making more. What for? He does not know. It becomes a kind of insanity. No one is happier in a palace than in a cabin.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
  8. Individual Responsibility And Sarah Palin – Does Ms Palin speak at public and private events and on TV shows and in her never-ending chain of books because she thinks her words have no influence? That they might not change, or guide, or have an effect on the minds of her listeners? Of course not. Does she take credit when her vocal support of a candidate assists in their victory? Of course she does. There is, of course, a difference between who actually pulled the trigger and who offered up suggestions and targets and stoking up as to which direction the gun should be pointed. But that doesn’t mean the latter is absolved of any responsibility, moral if not legal. Ms Palin’s refusal to accept that is yet another indication of why she should never be elected to public office again.
  9. 1023 2011 – Homeopathy is one of those quack sciences I’ve never understood otherwise intelligent people being devotees of. Craziness.
  10. Climate change has guided 2,500 years of European history
  11. The new Zodiac – Wait … I’m a Sagittarius now? Aw, man, now I’m going to have to change my whole personality.

Unblogged Bits (Wed. 8-Dec-10 1630)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. Arizona Transplant Patients Plead With Jan Brewer To Reverse Life-Threatening Medicaid Cuts: Zaid Jilani
  2. Prosthetic Tentacle – That’s … disturbing. And cool.
  3. First Private Spacecraft In Orbit After Perfect Launch (Updated) – Congratulations, SpaceX! D.D. Harriman would be proud!
  4. The Reaction of Governments to Wikileaks Should Scare the Hell Out of You
  5. “They Can’t Kill Human Creativity” – Am I awful because I don’t think of John Lennon as all that fabulous an artist? I mean, sure, talented, but not ALL that. Matter of taste, certainly, but the utter devotion and near-sainthood with which he is treated just raises my hackles a bit.
  6. Aaron Sorkin: In Her Defense, I’m Sure the Moose Had It Coming
  7. In Saudi Arabia, U.S. Movies and TV Shows Are Doing More to Prevent Jihad Than U.S. Propaganda – They really like our ideas and our freedoms — when we given them the opportunity.
  8. Traffic Camera Enters Drivers Who Obey Speed Limit Into Lottery – Very clever.
  9. Scientists figure out structure of enzyme that causes plaque to stick to teeth – Cool!
  10. This is your brain undergoing cognitive dissonance – We have funny brains, and so little understanding of how they work.
  11. We’re Number … Uh, Nowhere Close to 1 – Have no fear — those who tout American exceptionalism will always handwave such results away as being caused by poor ghetto children, crack babies, teachers unions, lack of prayer in the school, lack of public funding for church schools, immigrants (illegal and otherwise), liberals, high taxes, homosexuality, and whatever other pet anti-cause they can think of.

Unblogged Bits (Thu. 7-Oct-10 2330)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. Spread the Word — Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer and Gene Patents – How the hell do you patent human genes?
  2. Why Fred Phelps’s Free Speech Rights Should Matter to Us All – Another example why the calumny that the ACLU is a “liberal/radical/leftist” organization is profoundly untrue. And, as loathesome as I find Phelps and his Gang of Family Idiots, if they don’t have the right to speak, nobody does.
  3. RWNJ’s Calling For Boycott Of Campbell’s For Making Halal-Certified Soup: Alan
  4. Giving the individual mandate real-world meaning – I believe I made this observation in my screed yesterday.
  5. The Original King of Irony Lives On – And yet, he seems to have made an amazing come-back in the GOP. what that says about the GOP I leave as an exercise for the reader.
  6. Senator Jim DeMint and Morality – NYTimes.com – Amen, Brother Nicholas.
  7. Random Book Blogging: Money, Greed and God – God is Ayn Rand. It’s now blindingly obvious to me. Or obviously blind. One or the other.
  8. Missouri Tea Partiers Campaigning Against Proposition Mandating Humane Conditions At Puppy Mills – They’re even against puppies …
  9. Newt Gingrich Believes Food Stamps Stimlulating The Economy Is “Liberal Math” – Dude, if even the Wall Street Journal accepts the math, give it a rest.
  10. A Revolution In Mobile Cup Holder Technology – Dunno if I’d call it a “revolution,” but it’s pretty cool.
  11. Stuxnet – I expect to see more things of this sort — regardless of the origins and targets of this particular instance — in the future.
  12. Neo-Cons: Don’t Touch Defense Spending! : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – Not to sound like that old Air Force Bake Sale bumper sticker, but, given our domestic needs … do we REALLY need to spend at Cold War levels on defense? Really?
  13. Technical Support Hell: Today I discovered an employee in my office sending Word docs via email by printing the document, scanning the pages, and emailing the scans. I don’t know where to start. – (Facepalm)
  14. Lou Dobbs’ Little Meg Whitman Problem – “The Nation also editorialized today that this latest revelation only adds more fuel to the arguments that immigrants, legal and undocumented, are so thoroughly integrated into our economy that those politicians who seek to scapegoat and demonize their work are almost alway engaging in hypocrisy. The piece argues that we must legalize and regulate this work, instead of demonizing the workers our society is thoroughly dependent on.” But … but … but … without evil, lazy, Welfare-sponging, American-decaptitating, job-stealing, anchor-babying illegals to demonize, we’d have to find someone else to demonize!
  15. So that’s why Koch funded a major evolution exhibit – “The fact that we could be knocked back to a stone age level of technology without going extinct is not a point in favor of welcoming global warming.” But think of the money-making opportunities! Especially if you cunning corner the shell and bead market ahead of time!
  16. Gap Already Admitting That New Logo Sorta Sucks – I vote for “crappy design work with quick, if cheesy, recovery attempt.”

Unblogged Bits (Wed. 30-Jun-10 0202)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. New financial unit of measure: the “TDJ” – Big, inspirational art, cathedrals, stuff like that, do serve a purpose, so I can’t immediately hop on DOF’s bandwagon here (since obviously SOME Philistines out there were inspired by TDJ). But I’d suggest that before investing a quarter mil into rebuilding this eye-sore (and handwaving away any suggestion that, well, MAYBE THEY SHOULD CATCH A CLUE ABOUT WHAT THE ALMIGHTY THINKS ABOUT THIS MONSTROSITY), the church in question ought to very, very seriously think about what Jesus would actually suggest in this circumstance, and how much of this is to glorify themselves, not to do God’s work (whited sepulchres can be Jesus-shaped, too).
  2. Gohmert Cracks the Case [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – Next up, Gohmert claims that Obama was a dry run … or was he simply the FIRST OF MANY??!!
  3. Do not apply for jobs with “TTJ Property Management” as it’s just a scam. – Bravo, Les. Great research. I suspect others will find it useful, too.
  4. London cops enforce imaginary law against brave, principled teenaged photographer – For people we trust to go armed and use physical force against miscreants, way too many police seem to be shy of public oversight.
  5. Four Great Reasons Your Facebook Profile Should NEVER Be Public | Facebook blog and news
  6. YouTube – NASA Satellite Time Lapse Images of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill – Amazing, and disturbing.
  7. Gorilla psychologists: Weird stuff in plain sight – opinion – 28 June 2010 – New Scientist – We can only focus on so much at a time. Which is one reason why “multi-tasking” is not nearly as effective as folks deceive themselves in to thinking it is.
  8. YouTube – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 & 2 Official Teaser (2010) – Okay, some of the screen text is a weeeee hyperbolic — but, damn, that does look exciting.
  9. Do we play Farmville because we’re polite? – Boing Boing – I very much suspect this is true. And, yes, it’s a reason I never accept those sorts of invites (nor do I often get onto FB).
  10. Bumpology: Fed up of the booze and cigs police – health – 29 June 2010 – New Scientist
  11. Kirkman’s ‘Walking Dead’ conquers comics. Is TV next? – USATODAY.com – If played true to the comics, this could be a real hit.
  12. Tor.com / Johnny Depp Starring in Big Screen Doctor Who Adaptation? – Um … I really hope this turns out to be about 98.6% Not True.
  13. YouTube – Bistro Bordeaux – No Need For A Corkscrew – Not quite as funny as the guy on the street in an earlier video, but interesting to see. I would not do this with a good bottle, for a variety of reasons.