NYC eyes ban on restaurant trans fats

Yes, being mostly libertarian I shouldn't support government intervention into someone's right to kill themselves (though liquor is quicker).  To explain I don't really expect this to pass and if it does I doubt it will catch on in many cities or states.  Imagine politicians trying to sell this to our sedentary ( Read more... )

In the time since I have stopped consuming vast quantities of chemicals several major changes have overtaken all previous direction.  My ability to socialize, amuse, and otherwise be among has further withered and retreated to the point I consider that me, dead.  So much as dried fruit you can soak all day long but fresh never tastes twice.  Now, ( Read more... )

Thursday I had to do yet another delivery to the Pentagon.  I cannot fully explain how much it creeps me out standing at the base of the stairs to the Pentagon holding a huge cardboard box and thumbing myself for twenty minutes while I wait for the customers to show up.  The whole time I'm just bracing myself for some tactical team to suddenly ( Read more... )

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Patient Admits Killing Psychiatrist, Police Say
Devotion to Most Severe Cases Raises Risk of Personal Danger
NIMH Administrator Wayne S. Fenton, 53 (Obituary)

These were sent to me through a support group I attend.  This is one of the doctors nice enough to be a guest speaker several times discussing his efforts to improve mental health in the ( Read more... )

...Or are you just happy to see me?

DECOMPOSITION AND SKELETONIZATION

The breakdown of soft tissues and non-mineral components of bone occurs as a series of processes that begin at death. What was a dynamic, organized chemical system (the living organism) becomes less organized and more susceptible to outside influences. In many environments, the ( Read more... )

Protecting Your Child From Sex Abuse
If you or someone you knows has children read it.  Pass it on as well, even if you don't.  I know most of it is elementary but obviously parents are still failing at even that or else we wouldn't have such a problem.

To highlight what I consider the most important part: In addition to talking to your kids, child ( Read more... )

America Plans Its First New Nuclear Warhead in Two Decades

Going Atomic...Again

Excerpt: (Emphasis mine)
And even though the half-life of weapons-grade plutonium is 24,000 years, some experts have suggested that alpha particles emitted as the plutonium decays could crack the pits in the bombs that contain it within 15 years. But careful analysis of ( Read more... )

Lava Stamp

My skin was afire tentative meltdown and itched of madness.  Molecular ants were rending mounds of basalt and silver spun from body once.  I scratched wildly to suppress the horde but all I realized was the bondage of blood weakening down my back as molten debris.  Something in the room was growing, engulfing me.  Silence like a sheer ( Read more... )

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US schoolgirls 'mug MySpace man' (Click link for full story)

Two teenage girls in the US have been charged with holding up at gunpoint a man they are said to have contacted on social networking website MySpace.com.

Yana Galilova and Rafaella Yusupova, 14 and 13, are accused of armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon.

Ahahahaa.  Now we'll have ( Read more... )