Linked copied from bossgoji: Winter Olympics in a Polish newspaper. (Those familiar with anime and/or 4chan will understand.)

If this CTV News/W5 special report is any indication, problems with Lyme disease are even worse in Canada than they are in the United States, in terms of getting diagnosis and treatment, because doctors assume Lyme disease exists only in the use U.S., as if ticks couldn't possibly cross the border from New York to Ontario or so forth ( Read more... )

I try and follow the events in Iran over Twitter and linked news feeds, periodically, as I manage between other distractions.  (I have developed a severe attention deficit, but I spend most of my time at the computer reading articles and social network updates these days.)  I've been following ABC reporter Lara Setrakian on Twitter (@ LaraABCNews), ( Read more... )

National Transportation Safety Board, March 23, 2006 (official report here): "Because the 1000-series, Rohr-built, passenger railcars, which will comprise 26 percent of the Metrorail passenger railcar fleet when all the cars are delivered, are vulnerable to catastrophic telescoping damage and complete loss of occupant survival space in a ( Read more... )

Natarsim, natarsim; ma hameh ba ham hastim.

"We must not be frightened; we are all together."

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A voice from central Tehran earlier this morning (Sunday 21 June):

If Obama moves to support the demonstration in strong terms, this camp will lose and Ahmadinejad will gain ground; also it is not good to make an American domestic issue from an Iranian ( Read more... )

It is one thing to conceive of death or to see it mimicked by actors; it is another to watch it happen with all the blood, the rolling eyes, and the uninhibited screams of broken hearts.

(Not for the faint of heart.)

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In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences from TIME.

From LaraABCNews on Twitter:

Just spoke to an American tourist who was kidnapped by Basij yesterday, held for 4 hrs on suspicion of being a spy. #iranelection
about 4 hours ago from web

This sort of thing could become an issue.

In response to the article I linked last night, I've just sent this message to the Free Hugs Campaign:

I recently read this article in the New York Times --- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/style/28hugs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp --- about how junior high and high school students have increasingly been hugging as a greeting, which itself makes me ( Read more... )

Schools are banning hugs, the viewing of line drawings is considered a sexual offense, and I despise the imbeciles of the obsolete generation just a little bit more today.

Calif. gay marriage ban backers target businesses

It never ceases to amaze me how easily people will resort to bullying in an attempt to gear people toward what, to them, is the obviously right course of action.  It's even more surprising, to me, than the fact that people actually believe in such things as an obviously right course of action.