This whole story about the Whitehouse party-crashers has got to have the all-time world record for highest coverage-to-importance ratio by now, right? I don't even watch the news all that much and I'm sick of it. I just watched some idiot senator from New York rant on Fox News* for a full five minutes about how The Administration Needs To Accept ( Read more... )

Here are several things that I will not miss about watching the World Series:

• Being informed every damn commercial break that "the difference is drinkability."
• The shots of every runner who reached second base, which always just happened to perfectly frame the banner on the outfield wall stating that "the difference is drinkability."
• Joe Buck ( Read more... )

One of the many turf wars that radiologists fight nowadays is with the Ob/Gyn folks over who gets to perform (and, of course, bill for) prenatal ultrasounds. In my hospital, the groinecologists have largely won that battle, but, as an olive branch, they let the radiology residents come by their department to learn how to do them. That's where I am ( Read more... )

Here's a thing that irritates the crap out of me: Someone wrong-number dials my phone, and when I answer, they, having realized their mistake, just hang up without a word. How rude.

Here's a thing that actually irritates me only very slightly less: When they don't hang up, and say "Oh, I'm sorry! I've got the wrong number!" Much more polite, but ( Read more... )