Bad news

Estrogen doesn't protect women from the effects of high cholesterol. Now the Good News: They don't need that protection in the first place. This guy Kendrick has a great web site.

Ecoterrorism

Capitalism has failed to produce the wide gap between the workers and the upper classes that communists once predicted. In fact the working class has turned out to be much better off under capitalism than under socialism, especially in the West where capitalism is tied to democracy.

One result has been that many young, angry leftists have shifted the focus of their anger towards the perceived spoiling of the environment by capitalism rather than towards the worker poverty that it has failed to manifest. Thus, you have people like this. And this.

Vino Veritas

So far so good. I had two glasses of wine last night and no more. But I do admit that towards the end of the second glass I was having, "hmmm, one more won't hurt" thoughts. But I did stick to my guns. I'm gonna try this and if I find I really can't limit myself, I'll go cold turkey again. I purposely drank them on an empty stomach (since the research said it didn't make a difference for the benefits), because I wanted to feel the effects, and, yes, the effects felt really good, heh heh.

Bowing to the Blessed Geniuses of Science

who found out through rigorous and incredibly inspired scientific research that frequent moderate alcohol consumption is good for you. I know, I know. I started this whole Blog thing with a pathetic description of my drunken adventures with, um, drinking. And I said I was stopping. On the wagon. No mas. And I haven't had a drink since that moment, including at any of the parties we went to. Including fucking New Years Eve. But, hey, SCIENCE is the myth of out times. The modern Olympus. Who am I to argue with the f-f-f-f-f-f-fuckin Gods of Science? So I'm gonna try just drinking one or two drinks a day (7 days a week, for max benefit) and see if I can do it. If I can't. Well then I do have a drinking problem and I'll go cold turkey again. Thing is. I really like to drink. So. We'll just see. (I'm drinking my second glass of wine, as we speak. :-)

Cloned Baby Photo

The Raelians (praise be to our Space Alien Ancestors) have finally released this amazing photo. Now I know I'll never join their cult.

Celebs Against Reality

Scorsese has "come out" against the war, along with such great minds of our time as George Michael and B.Streisand. This is the same guy who made millions with "criticaly acclaimed" films, like Gangs of New York and GoodFellas, that glorify gangsters, selfishness, and cruelty. I think he should be chosen to make a movie about Sadaam, once he gets nuclear weapons, destroys Israel, takes over the entire Middle East, and dominates the West with terrorism as he aspires to do. Yes, Scorsese would be just the man for that job. He can fill it with lots of scenes of Sadaam personally blowing the brains out of followers who offend him, chopping the hands off children of opponents, etc. These will win him more accaim for his realism and depth of insight into life. In fact, I wish he would move to Baghdad today and set up shop in one of Sadaams palaces. Maybe he could film the first Tomahawk nose-on as it approaches. That's a movie I might pay to see. If it survived the explosion.

Send My Evil Twin to Jail

But not me. You gotta love our justice system.

Blix

I believe he sees his mission not as catching Iraq but as preventing a war. In that he may share a glorious place in history with Nevile Chamberlin and other appeasers of evil. Got my fingers crossed that Bush keeps his backbone and takes out Sadam before it's too late. This talk about waiting 'til August makes me nervous. Waiting for a consensus of approval from the UN would be catastrophic. On the other hand if we still do what we need to when we need to, it doesn't hurt if we can ge the UN to also go along with us. I'm hoping that's been Bush's strategy: we needed a certain amount of time to rebuild our arsenal, train troops, and get them in place, so why not play along with the UN in the meantime. That approach can backfire if the Chamberlins in our midst convince enough people that we should actually take the UN seriously.

Gravity

moves at the speed of light. I didn't even know gravity had a speed. But if the sun suddenly disappeared it would take about 8 minutes before the Earth stopped trying to orbit around it. I wonder what the speed of knowledge is...? Maybe the fact that the observer affects the outcome of an event means knowledge travels faster than the speed of light.

Wasted Religion

Maybe here is an explanation why His image appears in so many strange places. Maybe His image just wanders there looking for some chips and salsa and kinda forgets to leave...

I'd like to have listened in when those guys did the "research" :

"Listen to this, man, "Christ" means "the annointed one" and you know what they annointed him with?"

"What, Dude?"

"Cannabis oil, man. And you know where they put it, man?"

"Where, Dude?"

"On his head, man, on his head! That's where the term "pot head" comes from, man."

"Oh, wow."

"Yeah, man, Jesus was into cannabis oil. It's really heavy."

"Oh, Dude. I just thought of something."

"Yeah, man, that's why they call 'em 'Holy Rollers.' "

"Yeah, Dude. I just thought of something man, let me tell you."

"And the Bible, get this man, talks about people getting stoned in public. No shit, man, I saw it there when I was flipping though researching this shit, man."

"No! You're shittin me. Dude, you gotta show me that."

"What did you think of, man?"

"Huh?"

"A minute ago, you said you thought of something."

"Shit. I forget. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Don't say anything, Dude, let me remember."

"Hee, hee. "

"No really. Wait. Oh, yeah! Shit this is heavy, Dude."

"What is, man?"

"What I thought of. Ok, so the other day, this Christmas carol. Wait a minute. Oh, yeah, 'Hark, the herald,' Dude."

"...what the fuck?"

"It says, 'Angels we have heard on high,' Dude. I heard it the other day. This is really far out. Wow. Jesus was a head, Dude. We got the proof. I wanna get some of that oil, Dude, rub it on my feet."

"Shit, yeah, man. I'll put it on my salad."