Some good news for people who like their grapes in a nonalcoholic format (possible subscription wall): Toasting with grape juice may carry brain-sparing benefits, according to research presented here 24 February at the World Parkinson’s Congress. In a series of cognitive and motor tests, grape juice-drinking rats outshined their placebo-swilling counterparts, possibly due to an …
Archives for March 2006
More Katrina Hooey
Bush’s first-draft effort at excusing himself post-Katrina always seemed completely feeble: “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees” We all knew that he was full of it. Hurricane experts knew, the government’s own engineers knew and most of the residents of New Orleans knew that the levees could go if they got …
Sheehan To Address EU Parliament
As long as John is still feeling a bit under the weather I’ll do my best to carry on blogging for the both of us. For John’s sake, it appears that grieving mother Cindy Sheehan has joined the lecture circuit: I have been invited to speak to the European Union Parliament in March in Strasbourg, …
Memo To Arlen Specter – Do Your Job
When the Senate Judiciary Committee recently invited Alberto Gonzalez to testify regarding the ongoing wiretapping controversy, Democrats suggested that he back up his credibility with a fairly standard sworn oath. Arlen Specter took offense: Specter grew irritated. “The reason I’m not going to swear him in is not up to him. Attorney General Gonzales is …