This should amuse fans of that Samuel Jackson movie that hasn’t come out yet. A meta-study suggests that the health benefits of alcohol may be a statistical artifact. I still maintain that teetotalers don’t actually live longer, it just feels longer. Chat about whatever.
Archives for March 2006
Friday Beer Blogging – Flies Like Us
In my opinion hangover sufferers deny any memory of the night preceding (and therefore, apparently, limit their responsibility for whatever they did) more often that it’s actually true. The whole idea sounded like a myth to me, until one night in college…Anyhow, thanks to the work of UCSF researcher Ulrike Heberlein we now have some …
Changes to Corporate Accounting
At first glance, I would say this is long overdue: The board that writes accounting rules for American business is proposing a new method of reporting pension obligations that is likely to show that many companies have a lot more debt than was obvious before. In some cases, particularly at old industrial companies like automakers, …
The Power of Prayer
This is timely, considering my objection to Gov. Manchin’s remarks yesterday: Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, …
Gay Marriage Ruling
There has been a gay marriage ruling in Mass.: Massachusetts’s highest court ruled today that same-sex couples who live in other states cannot get married in Massachusetts unless gay marriage is legal in their home states. In an opinion written by Justice Francis X. Spina, the court upheld a 1913 statute that says that no …
Miner Released
This is rather extraordinary: Sago Mine survivor Randal McCloy Jr., looking thin and stiff but walking on his own, offered his gratitude Thursday as he was released from a hospital after almost three months. ”I’d just like to thank everybody for their thoughts and prayers” McCloy said softly, wearing a ball cap and a racing-team …
I Beg You
I can take the harangues directed at me. I can take the intentional and unintentional misreading of what I write. I can take the flaming. Why? Because as far as I am concerned, I give as good as I get. What I can not take, however, is some of you refusing to embed your links …