I have reached the stage of finals where everything seems funny, as is this. As usual, the yahoo comments are beasting the actual article.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-sues-bmw-alleging-motorcycle-seat-gave-him-010902532.html

If BMW admits to this then doesn't the FDA have to step in and regulate their medical device?

And the date on the article is March 31st.

http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-man-struck-lightning-hours-buying-lottery-tickets-203600215.html

Officials of the Mega Millions lottery, which had the largest prize in U.S. history, said that the odds of winning lottery were about 176 million to one. Americans have a much higher chance of being struck by ( Read more... )

O'Reilly just reported that there was 'St Patrick's Day Massacre' of sorts more lethal than the infamous St Valentine's Day Version in the Capone era.

I heard exactly NOTHING from the media this week and had to google it to learn he was talking about 2012. Yes it did happen,

http://crimeinchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/st-valentines-day-massacre- ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/business/digital-records-may-not-cut-health-costs-study-cautions.html

But research published Monday in the journal Health Affairs found that doctors using computers to track tests, like X-rays and magnetic resonance imaging, ordered far more tests than doctors relying on paper records.

It's a lot easier to order ( Read more... )

Surely there's a few Treasury employees in the report.

Thousands of federal workers owe back taxes.

Data from the Internal Revenue Service found that more than 279,000 federal employees and retirees owed $3.4 billion in back income taxes as of Sept. 30, 2010

Like many of the protestors I haven't read the bills of SOPA or PIPA so I am passing on their merits.  But I am aware that the legal system has been puzzling over what to do with the internet  as technology moves faster than the courts.  Actually a lot of things move faster than the Judiciary, but Congress isn't always speedy either .  But that's ( Read more... )

I just watched 10 minutes of the South Carolina debate before the last stand of the Not-Romneys.  I heard  
Republicans sniping about this phenomenon known as investment, some crying about who voted for what 20 years ago, and who got his feelings hurt by negative ads?

Nothing about debt, unemployment, wars overseas.  Fox is ignoring everything that ( Read more... )

Apparently there is such as thing as bad wine.  I yielded to an impulse and grabbed a bottle in CVS they way I usually decide:  look at whatever's in the middle of the top shelf and check the price to make sure it is low.  It was, smack in the middle and $7.99.

I am still feeling the effects of yielding late Sunday night.  But the label said " ( Read more... )

Police say academics accused of running prostitution ring not motivated by cash.

According to The Albuquerque Journal, police believe Garcia wasn't motivated by money, but that he wanted to "provide a safe place for prostitution without risk of  arrest." Flory, meanwhile, told police he also didn't run the site for money, but rather considered ( Read more... )

Thank the lawyers.  Now if you win in a square game they want to take it away on the grounds that maybe you were not supposed to be playing*.  I hoe the lawsuit gets dismissed.  In any case, a better idea is to play with cash only, and don't take too many notes on who was playing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110623/ap_on_en_mo/ ( Read more... )