Fatphobia ….

For an excellent discussion of this week’s CSI episode, a man smothered to death by his fat date (when she passes out on top of him), see Cool Beans’ blog. I’d been thinking long and hard about writing on it, but she and her commentors have done such an excellent job, I don’t need to.

Perhaps victory in Martyr’s Square ….

With cries of “Syria out! Syria out!”, tens of thousands of Lebanese citizens gathered today in Beirut’s Martyr’s Square, cheering the resignation of Pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami. And what an apt locale. Originally known as Burj Al-Kachaf, the square was renamed to honor Lebanese nationalists executed there by the Ottoman Empire in 1919. In [...]

Shopping therapy….

I did something completely out of character today – I went shopping. For clothes. New clothes. Clothes that fit and are pretty colors. From a department store! That may not sound very exciting, but you see, I don’t shop if I can possibly avoid it. And never in a department store. Almost everything I own, [...]

No buzz allowed ….

In an age when Viagra is covered by Medicare, it’s still illegal in some states to sell a women a vibrator. Wired News yesterday ran an article (You Have an Rx for That Vibrator?) that reminds us that in 1998, the state of Alabama passed a law making it illegal to “produce, distribute or otherwise [...]

Let there be music ….

Every once in a great while I stumble across a band so incredibly special that I want the whole world to listen. That’s the case with Darvish, a jazz trio of piano, cello and percussion that fuses progressive jazz and middle-eastern melodies and rhythms. I found them first on Amazon Free Music Downloads a couple [...]

High risk pregnancy ….

News coverage has been intense this week about the disappearance and murder of Texan Lisa Underwood and her 7 year old son by her former boyfriend, who apparently feared she would expose their affair to his wife. Sadly, it’s not a unique case. Yesterday Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report listing murder [...]

Howling Moon ….

Kalilily Time had a wonderful piece yesterday about the full moon. Check it out.

A nifty little tool ….

Confession: I’m a lousy speller. I’ve been frustrated over the lack of a good spell checker for WordPress, since I’d gotten spoiled using Blog on my old site. Using webmail and typing comments on other sites is challenging, too, unless I keep a dictionary at my elbow. Often as not, I ended up rewording things [...]

Pain vs gain ….

Advisers to the FDA this week voted by a narrow margin to recommend keeping Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra on the market, stating that while the drugs do increase the risk of adverse cardiovascular events, those risks may be outweighed by the benefits for some individuals. As someone who has taken the drugs in question, I [...]

Hunter S. Thompson ….

A truly unique and brilliant man gone. Please check out HCWW’s beautiful eulogy.

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