Ok, that’s a slight overstatement. But a new study shows that some men who take Viagra suffer permanent vision loss. This is not good. All of the men who suffered this had other risk factors as well, including hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol. But still. Apparently Viagra works to constrict arteries, and not just where …
News item: Hawaii Public Radio began its twice-yearly pledge drive Wednesday with a goal of $517,000 and its usual promise to suspend fund raising as soon as the goal is reached. “You could be a tremendous help by getting this great big ball rolling,” General Manager Michael Titterton said during the first minutes of the …
Ok, this is over the topjust about right. * I want my case to be turned into a circus by losers and crackpots from around the country who hope to bring meaning to their empty lives by investing the same transient emotion in me that they once reserved for Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy and that …
When you look at polls, the greater the margin of error, the less reliable the poll, right? What if your margin of error is 10 million years?
Falwell hospitalized with respiratory ailment. Pope may need feeding tube. Ironies abound.
Tonight, in a segment about the Creationism Wars on The News Hour, I heard some ID proponent say that radiodating was based on assumptions. Ah,
Ok, I’m sort of over Arizona’s collapse on Saturday, but not enough to do anything which requires thought. So here’s a link to Knopf’s Daily Poem project, timed to be out just in time for April, always designated National Poetry Month. Link found over at Book of Joe.
VS. 89 – 90 OT How the hell do you blow a 15-point lead with 4:00 left in regulation?
The questions are nearly 2,000 years old, yet in this culturally divisive American moment, a time when believers feel besieged and skeptics think themselves surrounded, a reconstruction of Jesus’ journey from Jewish prophet to Christian savior suggests that faith, like history, is nearly always more complicated than it seems. (My emphasis) That’s from the cover …
Look! Walking Octopi! This is one of the more bizarre things I’ve seen recently. There’s a story about this in the current Science, but unless you’re a subscriber you’re outta luck. However, somebody apparently is a subscriber, and he/she has put the video up. (Note: you gotta click the play button on the left of …