16:11 Thursday 11 November 2021

I'm just going to say it. To hell with being "polite" to the people "on the other side" - if vaccines are available where you live, and you're old enough to get vaccinated, and you don't have a compromised immune system, and you're not vaccinated, you're stupid.Covid-19 vaccine myths
If you think you can't catch the ( Read more... )

Mon May 13 17:04:28 EDT 2019

We declared the measles eliminated (in the US) in 200 2000. Now we've had 839 cases ( Read more... )

Mon Apr 9 23:00:00 EDT 2018[US] Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla., met with [Mark Zuckerberg] the Facebook CEO for more than an hour on Monday ahead of Zuckerberg's Capitol Hill testimony Tuesday and Wednesday.Nelson: "Because if we don't do something now none of us will have any privacy anymore."

Here's the thing: No one's making us use social media. No ( Read more... )

Sat Feb 24 21:02:25 EST 2018'Vicar of Dibley' actress Emma Chambers dies at 53
I see so little celebrity "news" that it's very unusual for this to reach me. Emma is familiar to me from only one show, her role as an idiot (Alice Tinker) in a village of idiots (Dibley). And I probably wouldn't have recognized her from this photo; time has changed her ( Read more... )

2/22/2018 8:03 PM

Darwin Awards are for people who remove themselves from the gene pool by doing something stupid.
Should people also be candidates if they remove their descendants from the gene pool? ( Read more... )

Mon Jan 22 17:03 EST 2018

Another government "shutdown" started at midnight Saturday morning. As is not unusual, I was working at midnight. Whether the shutdown affects your employment depends on your contract. My position is considered "essential", and we work straight through shutdowns. (Being "essential" means we don't get snow days off either ( Read more... )

Sun Jan 21 17:10:31 EST 2018

From Val Curtis, professor of Hygiene and director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine:We've spent generations of science and effort to try and protect people from drinking raw water ( Read more... )

Mon Jan 1 13:22:30 EST 2018Spam subject: "You have 3 lost messages"
How can I have them if they're lost?

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Sun Dec 10 09:42:12 EST 2017... it's the second time in two weeks that a fire sparked by attempts to kill bed bugs has caused extensive damage in Cincinnati.

MOUNT AIRY, OH (FOX19) November 29, 2017 - A child trying to kill a bed bug with alcohol and a match sparked the blaze, fire officials said ( Read more... )

12/8/2017 10:02 PM

Is there some reason people ask me the same question in email and IM, but don't check their email for a response before they ask again on IM ( Read more... )