I love you. If I didn't, I'd hold my tongue. But if this is YOU, please fix it, because I am furious with a behaviour, which is entirely preventable.

There.
is.
NEVER.
any.
sufficient.
reason.
to.
hold.
your.
phone.
to.
your.
ear.
while.
driving.

Someday soon, I, or some other unbalanced individual one like me, is going to end up in headlines ( Read more... )

I got a post on this from both ewtikins and siliconshaman, so I read it.

Now you go, and do so, too.

It's a very GOOD "AHA" moment. And I know what to do. You do, too, I'd bet.

Everything else in life just :is: at the moment, without modifiers.

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This is intentionally not placed behind a cut.

I've spoken of this before.
Sigh.

The modern Irish government insists on building a grand motorway smack-dab through their ancient Place of Kings. That this has been going on for years still amazes me. Thanks to morrigandaughtr for this article, about the Harpers of Ireland (finally) contesting the development ( Read more... )

( If that don't say it all... )

( C.O.O.L. )

Another GE Rice from Bayer Contaminates EU Food Supplies

Haven't they figured out we just don't want this stuff anywhere?

And then...

Mexico Rejects Biotech CornMexico this week barred Monsanto Co. and other biotechnology companies from planting genetically engineered corn, rekindling fierce debate in that country over the technology. But it ( Read more... )

Back in 2002, I clipped this excellent commentary and started carrying it in my paper journal.

It said what I felt at the time, and says a lot that I still feel, and I exhibit many of the same symptoms as the fellow shown.

Outrage overload does *indeed* happen a lot nowadays ( Read more... )

"The Supreme Court’s recent landmark Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld held that the President is subject to the requirements of both federal statutes and the Geneva Conventions in crafting rules for military tribunals. Though many progressives cheered the ruling as well as the Pentagons’ statement that the Geneva Conventions would apply ( Read more... )

U.S. Warns India not to ban Coca-Cola. Whathe@%$%? Six Indian states have announced partial or complete bans on the soft drinks after claims that the drinks contain harmful pesticides.

Various large food manufacturers trying to change the meaning of "Grass-Fed.

Japan has suspended US long-grain rice imports after supplies were found to contain ( Read more... )