WHY do I watch L&O: SVU?
It is a horrible horrible show.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Trudy Booth - Mar 18, 2008 5:24:45 pm PDT #511 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ginger - Mar 18, 2008 6:04:06 pm PDT #512 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Can anything ever be wiped out entirely, though, given the international factor, where vaccines aren't the norm?
Smallpox is gone. Measles are almost gone, although unrest in Africa has set that back.
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2008 6:12:33 pm PDT #513 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Measles are almost gone, although unrest in Africa has set that back.
There have been a bunch of cases of measles in the US this year. I remember hearing about a few in Brooklyn a few weeks ago, and in San Diego maybe a month or two ago.
Amy - Mar 18, 2008 6:14:28 pm PDT #514 of 10001
Because books.
Is smallpox really gone everywhere? Just out of curiosity?
I should probably stop accepting medical issues from ER as facts, huh?
Aims - Mar 18, 2008 6:25:07 pm PDT #515 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm okay with Gardasil too.
Soon as Em can have it (first period, I think), she's getting it.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2008 6:25:12 pm PDT #516 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Smallpox was eradicated about 30 years ago, after an intense global effort.
I suspect, however, that the cost/benefit analysis regarding eradication of chicken pox isn't something that pans out. It's rarely more than a nuisance, the vaccine ain't cheap, and frankly, there are a hell of a lot more pressing concerns that the world's public health dollars should be spent on.
amych - Mar 18, 2008 6:33:05 pm PDT #517 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Someone make me stop reading WHO stats before bed.
(eta: on the plus side, epidemiology maps! who needs sleep?)
(eta+: measles sadly not nearly gone: 242,000 deaths worldwide in 2006 (compare: ~1 mil for malaria). BUT what I went looking for -- polio is the new smallpox; it's down to 1300 cases (2007), and is endemic in only 4 countries. Fucker's going DOWN.)
(Umm, I'll shut up now.)
ChiKat - Mar 18, 2008 7:24:37 pm PDT #518 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I can't imagine having an infant with it, Burrell. You're so right -- the baby would be miserable, but would never remember it.
I had chickenpox when I was 18 months. Don't remember it at all. My 2 older sisters had it and I got it from them.
Hiya, Bitches!!!
DCJensen - Mar 18, 2008 7:32:20 pm PDT #519 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
When I was a kid, I had the mildest case of measles my doctor had ever seen.
My mom always says I had "measle."
Laga - Mar 18, 2008 7:32:30 pm PDT #520 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've been trying to meet up with this guy from OK Cupid for a week. We might be able to do Monday but the scheduling is tricky so we'd have to exchange cell phone numbers. Should I go for it?