Politics.
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A scientist has discovered a way to put animals and possibly people into suspended animation with a poison gas ( Read more... )

...died early this morning. I'm terribly sorry to see him go. As I wrote on Askville:
He exemplified the ideal of noblesse oblige. Born with everything - incredible wealth, looks, charm - he could have spent his life enjoying himself without a thought for anyone else. Instead, he spent his life working to improve the lot of those less fortunate ( Read more... )

So I was completely offline between Tuesday morning and Sunday night. Not only did I not have net access, I didn't even have access to a television; my parents don't get a strong enough signal in Maine to receive the new digital broadcasts, so they've gone from having six channels to noneApart from Sarah Palin resigning for some reason and the ( Read more... )

David Carradine died in Bangkok yesterday. Apparently he hung himself.

By all accounts he was a very strange person, but I enjoyed his work in Kung Fu and Death Race 2000, among other things.

I'm tired.

I'm tired of writing about this. I'm tired of thinking about it. But every time I read a story about it, I get outraged.

So when Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R-PA) wrote an opinion piece for a Turkish website, supporting denial of the Armenian Genocide but adding that "I pray for the ethnic Armenians who lost their lives...", I felt ( Read more... )

According to an article in the Washington Post today, scientists expect to be able to regrow parts of teeth relatively soon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401941_pf.html

Rudy Ray Moore, AKA the "Dolemite" died today. I wonder, has anyone else on my flist ever heard of him?

I noticed this a while ago. Apparently lots of people have missed it. But some time in the last several months, groceries started shrinking - a lot.

All sorts of groceries. But I guess it's not surprising that I first noticed that ice cream had shrunk. Maybe you remember: when you buy ice cream in the supermarket, the usual sizes are a half gallon ( Read more... )

Belmont and Newton (both in Massachusetts) have just withdrawn from the ADL's "No Place For Hate" campaign, because of the ADL's continuing stance on the Armenian Genocide. The ADL was finally forced to recognize the Genocide and re-hire their regional director, but they still oppose the bills in Congress which would recognize the Genocide.

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