EDITED TO ADD: (A few hours after I posted this, and less than 24 hours after vowing "we will never bow down," the Susan G. Komen fund bowed down. However, they are not to be trusted to behave, so I'm still going to refuse to support them in any way. I'll post more on their more secret problems later.)

"Here we are in the 21st century... and we' ( Read more... )

Oh, for cryin' out loud. I am Having A Day and apparently am too stupid this morning for even the most basic internet chores. I have been looking at this web page for five minutes and still cannot find where the download button is for the vector version of the wing images. Can you? And if so, can you tell me?

EDIT: The generous, glamorous, ( Read more... )

For my gun buddies, a review of Zombieland.

The movie G.I. Joe is being widely trashed, but someone at Newsweek used the premiere as a hook for this thoughtful article, What If G.I. Joe Were Gay?

PS: I was disappointed so few people saw my post about Wyeth Labs successfully placing 26 fraudulent articles about its menopause treatments in ( Read more... )

First, me: I'm adjusting to a minor new drug, it's making me a little sick, and that's why I'm not online much. I should be okay fairly soon.

Second, of interest to anyone who is, or knows, a woman taking "hormone replacement therapy," HRT for short. Natasha Singer of the New York Times has just done an exposé of fraud by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals ( Read more... )

Echhh, still depressed and still consoling myself with butterflies. ( personal and gardening stuff... )

Human Smoking Raises Cancers in Birds, Cats, Dogs

BUT

86,000 Pets Get Revenge

So I was explaining to my Brit flister belle-marmotte, soon to be an emigré, the U.S. diffs between sedate pumps for work and CFM pumps which are not for work unless you are a sex worker, when I ran across this woman's shoe and fashion journalHo boy, she's into shoes. She's a cosplay person. And to my surprise, her enormous tummy tattoo (a strand of large hollow ( Read more... )

As of last week, I'd picked up seven ticks so far this year. Seven which actually bit me. Six of which glommed onto me in one ten-day period. Only five of which were removed in one piece. I've had all three life stages, too, nymph and juvenile and adult ( Read more... )

Well, I am this|close to being completely over being sick this past week, but poor Ace is having a rough day and I have decreed that today, at least, he is too sick to go to the dog park. It is 70F / 21C here, and it's much, much, much too hot for him. We also had a weird episode on the patio this morning when his whole body started to tremble ( Read more... )

Not much time to post. My poor Savant spent two hours this morning with a dentist balancing a good part of her weight on his lower jaw. He had to stop the painkillers in order to make it to class tonight. He is not a happy rat. He's going to try to go to work tomorrow.

So let's enjoy Teh Happy, okay? For your kitteh-lovin' pleasure:

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