Ooof. In Debbie Downer news today, a study finds that praying won’t affect heart patients.
Guess the null hypothesis comes in handy once in a while, eh? Good thing real science (i.e., not the study of the paranormal) is based on it.
Wahh-waaahhhhhh
Hint: I = “Impeach”
Because Dan Savage told me to: a link to ITMFA.
Not a bad idea
Oh, give me a break: Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class.
No, not that. This:
Student Cory Winsett says if he must continue without his laptop, he’ll transfer to another school. Winsett says he won’t be able to keep up if he has to rely on hand-written notes, which he says are incomplete and less organized.
Overreact much, kid? I bet the prof was just — rightfully — sick of “tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-click-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-(instant messenger sound)-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap” etc.
Reminds me of a girl in my abnormal psych class who would bring in a Palm device and Bluetooth keyboard every day at the beginning of class and take notes on it. For such a tiny keyboard, it was a loud bastard. Which made it all the funnier when it (frequently) ran out of batteries and she frantically struggled to get it working again before the prof had said too much.
“Come hell or high water”
As if this was big news: Bush told Blair determined to invade Iraq without UN resolution or WMD.
What is big news is this part:
The memo also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq, The Times noted.
The article also notes that this was five days before Colin Powell was scheduled to appear before the UN to present evidence of WMDs. That’s right, kids— that means the president knew that what Colin was telling the UN was a lie.
Huh… maybe Russ can expand his censure resolution?
(Whoops— I’m late on this one. Kevin has the story covered better.)
Band kids: obvious druggies
Anybody else have a problem with this? Namely the logic?
You don’t even need to consider privacy rights to hate something like this— drug testing any student who does extracurricular activities doesn’t stop them from doing drugs. It stops them from doing extracurricular activities.
How is that not obvious?
EISBYMIWATCHDNSTHD
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog. And it be hilarious.
Now if you’ll excuse me, AOMSHJDOTBD. (Anothere of myne servauntes hath just dyede of the blacke death.)
Atheists and Scarecrows and dogs
The funniest part about this article? That there’s an atheist named “Chanse”.
(Man, I hope it’s pronounced like “Chance”. Otherwise, it would be almost as disappointing as learning that “Cillian” isn’t pronounced “Sillian”, which is just plain funny.)
Wasn’t it in Family Guy…?
Who knew that there was another reason why eating at a Denny’s was hazardous to one’s health.
(Yeah, I know, obvious, tasteless joke. Forgive me.)
Uhh… I didn’t know that
My thoughts about an already-questionable holiday just got a little darker.
NEW YORK – Protesters joined bagpipers, marching bands and thousands of flag-waving spectators at the St. Patrick’s Day parade Friday after the parade’s chairman compared gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.
As huge, happy crowds lined the streets, the chairman, John Dunleavy, sidestepped questions about his remarks to The Irish Times….
Police on scooters positioned themselves between the marchers and scores of gay-rights protesters, who chanted: “We can march in Dublin, we can march in Cork, why can’t we march in New York?”
So let me get this analogy right…
What the hell?
All told, about 300 doses
Happy 21st birthday to two of my roommates, Matt & Brent. Guess how we’re celebrating?
(No remarks on choices or quality. We have to cater to what the people want. And I promise, I won’t make drunkardly posts like this too often.)
