current events

Ok, my pop culture tends to go missing sometimes.  Yes, sometimes for years at a time.  Apparently today was one of those episodes.
Conan O’Brien?
I purchased one of those tiny USB tuners for the computer.  It came with this boffo little antenna that I stuck up on top of my monitor farm.  I like putting up [...]

A doctor in a small local hospital in Australia used a household drill to bore a hole into a boy’s skull, saving his life. Hey, I hear that Congress is looking for a new doctor….
‘People-person’ brain area found
Unfortunately the other areas of the brain keep trying to kill it.
THE CELEBRITY BEAT
Ben Stiller thinks his children [...]

YOUR TAX DOLLARS…
Census forms will be in English and Spanish.
See - your tax dollars don’t work in this area either!
POETIC JUSTICE
Congress dying from swine flu…
I AM THE EYE IN THE SKY
Satellites are not only spying on us, they’re spying on Mexico.
But we know that it’s for border security.  It would never be turned on us… [...]

Things the Pentagon has lost:

a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo, grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles (over $8 billion total)
a hydrogen bomb, meant to destroy Russia

Yes, a hydrogen bomb.  Hey, these things go missing, you know.  Relax.  It’ll turn up.
Homeland Security Trains Scouts To Fight Terrorism
Of [...]

THIS DAY IN HEALTHCARE
Senators open to compromise on healthcare revamp
Translated: they’ll take money from all sides.
Practitioners of Christian Science and other alternative therapies are intent on influencing the coming health care reform process.  Socialized Medicine covering faith healing?

Heaven help us….. so to speak.
Pfizer Offers Free Medication To Unemployed Or Uninsured Patients
Take advantage while they’re in [...]

Serial Robber Of Apple Customers Nabbed In New York
Police arrested Steven Jobs, 53, of Los Angeles, California….
FLU NEWS
Health authorities prepare to limit flu drug use
but…
Serial Robber Of Apple Customers Nabbed In New York
Police arrested Steven Jobs, 53, of Los Angeles, California….
THE COURTS HIT THE FAN
The next Constitutional battle is shaping up to be a winner.  [...]

ANOTHER CASUALTY OF GLOBAL WARMING
Amongst all the other howlings over global warming, here’s the one that made me sit up and take notice: kidney stones are forecast to rise twenty five percent in 2050 due to global warming.  Apparently there is a connection between hot weather and kidney stones.
It is widely held that men can [...]

THE EVENING IN HEALTH
Scientists have found a new way to assess whether prostate cancer is aggressive.
If the doctor’s finger doesn’t come back, it’s aggressive.
Folic acid ‘protects baby hearts’
It also keeps them nice and tender….
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary becomes the first in Europe to remove a spleen using a “virtually scarless” technique..
They reached down through the nostrils.
A [...]

HONEY, CALL THE TRAVEL AGENT

Auditors have identified over 3800 vulnerabilities in the FAA’s Web-based air traffic control applications.
Don’t you feel safer now?
LEGAL BOVINE EXCREMENT
What happens when you surf porn at work?  You can wind up with a hacking charge.
HEALTH STUFF
Five symptoms you need to know to recognize a stroke immediately.
Stroke: 7 Signs You Could Be [...]

THEM POWER TOOLS IS DANGEROUS
The big fire in Santa Barbara has been burning for a week, forcing thousands from their homes.  It was apparently started by power tools.
GOD LOVES TEXAS (because no one else does)
The Texas School Board votes on the age of the Universe.
Next up for a vote:

What color is the sky?
If we drill [...]