Anti-depressants with no proven efficacy are still prescribed to children, despite doubling the risk of suicidal tendancies – And the FDA continues to suck.
Category Archives: Aside
Looking at and printing pictures, thinking about life, hanging out with folks in Grad, reading The Tipping Point, listening to Rent (that one is Kevin’s fault!).
About time Martha wised up – Best thing for her shareholders is to get this contrition stuff over with as quickly as possible. Morals have nothing to do with it.
Fascinating study about subway etiquitte – It’s not so much that people, when asked, will give up their seats, but that the people performing the experiment felt so nauseated breaking the rules of social order.
Underwear experts agree, the thong is on the way out – Okay, first, there are underwear experts? Did they get some kind of college degree? And second, eww.
US plans to redirect Iraq reconstruction money to security – A pretty strong statement that reconstruction in Iraq is a failure. Also, with only two weeks left in the fiscal year, the US has spent only 6% of the money allocated for reconstruction. Wowch.
Breast cancer tests flawed, study reports – Except that’s not what the study says at all. It says that none of the four screening methods studied are perfect, but that they all are useful, depending on the circumstance and level of risk. Best, of course, would be a screening method that is minimally invasive/dangerous while being highly accurate, and we don’t have that yet.
“I moved the stars themselves to write her a love note in the sky.” – One of the saddest lines of Futurama, and I’m sure geeks like me can relate. Search for “Leela, about the wedding” and start reading.
Officials deny requiring everyone to spell it “euro” will impinge on Europe’s cultural diversity – The law is unclear on whether the plural is “euro” or “euros.” No, I’m serious.
Keeping a diary may be bad for your health – Not a highly convincing study, but interesting.
Classes in full swing, pretty settled in, finished The Diamond Age, trying to keep up the gym regiment, hanging out with Kevin, among others.
Operation Ignore – Three years after the September 11 attacks, and with a presidential election just a few months away, perhaps we should take a moment to reflect on just how much we knew about what was coming, and how much the Bush administration didn’t do to stop the impending attack.
Rowboat Veterans For Truth – “George Washington would wait to get France’s permission before protecting our people.” We can’t have that.
Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’ – The original Onion article from January 2001, now annotated with links from present day. Eerie, isn’t it? We knew exactly what we were getting into.
Kevin discusses policy pressures in the Republican Party and Democratic Party.
Jeff Morrow on the Republican platform – In fairness, there’s progress in the language. The gays have gone from moral atrocity to mere “incompatibility.” On a sin scale, they’ve moved up from the level of pedophiles to the level of OS/2 Warp.
Still cleaning my room, hanging out with cool people, multiple trips to Walgreens, hanging shelves, writing a paper (yeah, yeah).