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So for those parents who are always tired whenever they are high, why not munch a papaya?
“Medical treatment carries possible side effect of limiting homosexuality”
A hormonal treatment to prevent ambiguous genitalia can now be offered to women who may be carrying such infants. It’s not without health risks, but to its critics those are of small consequence compared with this notable side effect: The treatment might reduce the likelihood that a female with the condition will be homosexual. Further, it seems to increase the chances that she will have what are considered more feminine behavioral traits.
That such a treatment would ever be considered, even to prevent genital abnormalities, has outraged gay and lesbian groups, troubled some doctors and fueled bioethicists’ debate about the nature of human sexuality.
The treatment is a step toward “engineering in the womb for sexual orientation,” said Alice Dreger, a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University and an outspoken opponent of the treatment.
god damn
Pictures of the flooding in Pakistan.
As Radio Host
I am currently sitting in for Leonard Lopate on WNYC.
the best sandwich in Miami
This post is a long time coming, but if you are in Miami, eat at Enriqueta’s.
A volcano inspired soccer stadium in Guadalajara
The white outer rim of Estadio Omnilife is meant to resemble the rising smoke from a volcanic crater – perfectly appropriate once you realize that the Guadalajara metro area, with a population of roughly 5 million, sits smack in the middle of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, or Eje Volcánico Transversal, as it’s locally known. More than 20 volcanoes can be found along this 560-mile trail of activity caused by the subduction of the nearby Cocos plate, which runs down the Pacific Coast of Mexico and alongside Central America.
For Deron
Someone obscure dies, leaves even more obscure car behind.
We think of the oceans as blue, but the oceans aren’t really blue, they’re actually a sort of greenish color
Less phytoplankton in the water means fewer hurricanes.
“The fact that [the oceans] are not blue has a [direct] impact on the distribution of tropical cyclones,” Gnanadesikan said.
Without chlorophyll, sunlight penetrates deeper into the ocean, leaving the surface water cooler.
Cold water in turn causes changes in air circulation patterns, forcing strong winds aloft, “which tend to prevent thunderstorms from developing the necessary superstructure that allows them to grow into hurricanes,” the researchers said.
Phytoplankton populations around the world have been declining over the last century, the researchers said, citing recently published research.
He and his cronies are no better than the tabloid liars who exploited this decent woman from a Christian family who only wanted the truth to be known
Your comments are funny-Ha!Has! But we’ll bet that if someone put YOUR names on the internet for people all over the world to see and JUDGE you by, and accused you of a crime that you had NEVER EVEN BEEN CHARGED with, that you wouldn’t be laughing. Especially if it destroyed your life and family. Maybe then you would understand her trauma and pain from all this…
You didn’t have to tell us, pal. We know.
Texans are known for their subtlety.
Weekly Picture 190
Cape Charles, VA 2611, 8.12.2010
quote out of context
Reality star Tila Tequila suffered facial cuts after patrons at the “Gathering of the Juggalos” concert in Hardin County, Ill., pelted her with rocks and feces early Saturday.
Wilson Pickett | Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
No. 1 on my own personal joy list: Prattville, Alabama’s own Mr. Wilson “Wicked” Pickett singing “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”. That’s an electrifying shot of happy right there.
Donkey Departure
From “Rogue River Valley” (Hoagy Carmichael). Copyright 1946 by Burke and Van Heusen.
Don Quixote don’t you daily (Deron Bauman)
Variation on a theme by Hoagy Carmichael.
Conservative Bloggers Select The 25 Worst Figures In American History
1. Jimmy Carter
2. Barack Obama
quote out of context
… in 2004 he endorsed an alternative cancer treatment that prescribes, among other things, daily coffee enemas …
via aldaily
Don’t you want to read this?
In this novel, David Larson returns from Vietnam and attempts to find the retarded son of a one-legged sheep rancher in Slut’s Whole, Wyoming.
I would read it so hard.
(via Wikipedia)
something over Minneapolis and St. Paul
This showed up above Minneapolis / St. Paul last week. A local TV station sent a cameraman to film it. Some people called the police station to see what it was. They said it might have been LEDs on weather balloons or kites. The local news reported it as a homemade weather balloon with lights on it.
from the comments
But how many people even now are telling the truth about who they really are or have been at some point in their lives? Most of us, I venture, are silent with secrets.
Celebrate
I find it blindingly sad that the music of our era seems incapable of producing anything close to this.
Extra, extra!
Tin Man arrested in Times Square screwdriver stabbing.
Deer-Startling Device Tested in Utah
I love the picture that leads here; it reminds me of a Gary Larson cartoon. Also, there are two things I’m wondering: do they make these for squirrels, and–how many drivers will see the flash, hear the sound, and, believing they are being shot at, will swerve off the road into a tree?
The Tea Party on Net Neutrality
“There are so many assaults on individual liberties — the EPA, net neutrality, cap-and-trade, card-check; the list goes on — that sometimes the Tea Party doesn’t know where to start its battles,” Radtke said.
tweeting the bible
Chris Juby plans to tweet a chapter of the bible a day.
Mr Juby said: “It is my normal habit to read a chapter of the Bible each morning and I always read through from Genesis to Revelation.
“As I was coming to the end last time, I thought I needed a way of focusing my mind a little bit more on what I was reading. I thought a summary would be a good way of doing this. I already use Twitter, so I thought I’d share my summaries.”
I’m going to buy y’all a baby pool
