For a couple days before moving, I sprayed the new furniture with SCRAM pet repellent. An entire bottle’s worth, to be exact. The logic being there is plenty of furniture for them to sit on, and Lily is always in my lap anyway, and Tunch has his new window throne, so I would try to …
Archives for March 2010
Homo Sapiens – Patent Pending
I didn’t know that a company could patent two of the genes that cause breast and ovarian cancer: The patents granted to Myriad give the company the exclusive right to perform diagnostic tests on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and to prevent any researcher from even looking at the genes without first getting permission from …
It’s Best to Wrap Your Savior Up in Cellophane
After Texas Lt. Governor/Boromander David Dewhurst denounced the staging of the play Corpus Christi at Tarleton State University, since it depicts Jesus as gay, the play was cancelled by the “professor” (Mary Anne wasn’t available): The professor cited safety and security concerns for the students as well as the need to maintain an orderly academic …
It’s Best to Wrap Your Savior Up in CellophanePost + Comments (46)
Turn your good side on
A friend of mine sent this to me a few weeks ago. This is the real deal. I don’t care what Tom Friedman says, the Chinese aren’t producing stuff like this. Consider this an open thread.
Absence of empathy
Ezra Klein edges ever closer to being Froomkined: For Robert Samuelson, the fact that the Affordable Care Act is fully paid for and in fact reduces the deficit isn’t good enough. “If the administration has $1 trillion or so of spending cuts and tax increases over a decade, all these monies should first cover existing …
Just Like Jesus!
I basically go to church about as often as the Nets make the playoffs Cubs win the World Series (might as well be honest), so my memory of the religious mythology might be off, but I didn’t remember this piece of lore: The leader of the nation’s second-largest diocese urged his congregation to pray for …
Never Too Young to Try
This is absolutely insane: A judge in Pennsylvania has denied a request from a 12-year-old homicide suspect to have his case transferred to juvenile court. Jordan Brown is facing adult charges in the February 2009 shooting death of his father’s pregnant girlfriend, and a judge turned down a petition to have the case transferred from …