Or maybe torture it to death ( Read more... )

For the last week or so I've been afflicted with some bug that has my chest full of phlegm and my body running a fever of maybe 102°F. I've been weak and enervated all that time; I can get some things done, but not much, and my memory is misfiring or just not working a lot. Anybody know what this is?

No, it's not about vuvuzelas.

Currently, the top toilet-tank book is Rowan Jacobsen's Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. This morning I'd gotten as far as page 81, where I found this:

" . . . Jerry Bromenshenk had his own set of data showing IAPV [Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus] was not a ( Read more... )

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011749451_fungus02.html

Right now, everyone's down on the Roman Catholic Church for the plethora of child-abuse cases involving its personnel that have been showing up on the public radar lately. But very similar cases have also been showing up on that same radar lately that involve non-Catholic Christian institutions, institutions of other religions, the Boy Scouts, ( Read more... )