Spitzer spitted

Gotta fiture Eliot's gonna be seeing this quote a lot:

""This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure," Mr. Spitzer said at the time. "It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring."

considering this. (Hat tip, Instapundit)

Hmmm

No cancer sounds okay. I wonder about the social affects of this sort of expiration. We deal with sudden death, of course, so I guess it wouldn't be much different in that regard. Interesting at least.

I guess it really is the new religion

USA Today: Saudi Arabia, U.S. named the worst 'climate sinners'

the magic bullet

Thank goodness! USA Today announces plan to save planet and stamp out obesity all at once. All we have to do is:

"Get out of your car and walk or bike half an hour a day instead of driving."

Oh, okay. Sure, that makes sense. Instead of driving all the way to work, I'll just park a couple of miles away and walk the rest of the way. Nothing to it.

Never mind the random cars pulled up on sidewalks or just sitting in the middle of the road a mile from someone's destination. 

Hey, it could work.

Our United Nations

Does the UN only hire sexual deviants and criminals? Cause I'd really like to get in on this.

I'm not saying we should quit funding the UN. What if we just charge all member nations the same flat per citizen fee? Let China and India pay for most of it.

Media favor Dems

Nothing really shocking about this. Investor's Business Daily reports on a Harvard study (okay, that's a little shocking) that media coverage - bias and volume - favors Democratic candidates over Republicans.

sign me up

I'm up for living for 1000 years ...
Love this bit at the end:

On Oct. 9, 1903, the New York Times wrote:

"The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years."

On the same day, on Kill Devil Hill, N.C., in his diary, a bicycle mechanic named Orville Wright wrote:

"We unpacked rest of goods for new machine."

Am I cynical

to notice how quick the newspapers have been to label the Craigslist Murder? Who benefits if people come to fear Craigslist? Hmmm

This is pretty cool ... er, hot

The stuff that makes chili peppers smokin' hot is being used to numb surgical wounds to numb them for "weeks". Downside - reduces the need for narcotics.

Speak it brother

For two decades talk in the American workplace has centered on "balance." Institutes and think tanks study it. Forward-thinking bosses are supposed to encourage it. Policies like telecommuting and flextime and sabbaticals are designed to foster it.

I agree with this. It's ugly truth about the corporate, cube-farm world.

Drug Resistant Staph

on the rise. This doesn't sound good.

Yep, that'll do it ...

outlawing baggy pants ... brilliant!
Make them pull up their pants and their grades will improve? Senior citizens are afraid of them? Either they have reason to fear them or they don't. If there's a reason then making them pull up their pants only makes it harder for people to identify the threat - if any - that they represent. If there's no reason to fear them then it seems like a non-issue.

Faint praise

indeed

Yeesh

Kids docs wrong more than right ...

Global warming killing more Europeans then car accidents

What a crock of tripe. Global warming is now responsible for air pollution and a shortage of safe drinking water. And there's a plea to 'think of the children'.
Meanwhile a European court identifies ... mmm ... let's call them inaccuracies - in AlGore's Nobel-Peace-Prize nominated cinematic masterpiece.

Everything old is new

again
(Hat tip, as almost always, to Instapundit)

Ha!

I knew it:

the low-fat recommendations, besides being unjustified, may well have harmed Americans by encouraging them to switch to carbohydrates, which he believes cause obesity and disease. He acknowledges that that hypothesis is unproved, and that the low-carb diet fad could turn out to be another mistaken cascade.

 

Hitchens

on an American hero

Don't worry about stem cell research

If we don't want to do it, somebody else will ...

Conjunction Junction, Learning Earning

How about somebody comes up with some new schoolhouse rock bits for teaching kids about money?