Welcome, babyfras!
Eeep, Cash!
Solace~ma for N. & sleep~ma for Kat.
We have a snake living in our crawlspace right now, but we haven't been able to see it clearly enough to make an identification. D. thought it was a rattler initially, but it's never rattled, so we're thinking maybe bull snake? If it's not hazardous, we'd like to keep it to keep down the critters. But if it is, it will make life fraught for the plumbers and such, and we probably don't want that. Hmm.
Our buddy suggests that it may particularly like our house because of its passive solar design; plenty of nicely shaded cool spots and nicely warm spots for sunning. We thought the vents were all screened off, but it seems to go through pretty easily.
Still waiting on a phone call. Hate this. I love my mother and wish she would take better care of herself.
Distracting myself by trying to figure out how to incorporate these into a crochet project.
ADA LOVELACE SMASH
I daresay she'd arch an eyebrow and shoot them a withering look of death. Keep your stupid gender politics out of my tech, you sexist bastards!
Sending vibes your way Cash.
When I went to vote today, my change of address hadn't gone through, so I had to re-register and fill out a provisional ballot. I was v. late to work. The upside is that my new polling place is even closer to home than my last one was.
Oh my - PZ is awesome here.
Y'all know that Jenny McCarthy is opposed to vaccinations because of the false vaccine/autism link, right?
Help Oprah out
Oprah asks so sweetly: What Should Jenny Do?
You've seen it all over the news...Jenny McCarthy, one of America's funniest and coolest moms and Harpo is giving her, her own show.
Here is where YOU come in.
What would you like to see featured on Jenny's show? What would you like for her to talk about? What are you and your friends buzzing about?
Any topics you'd like for her to tackle? Are there any questions that you have -- that you would love for her to answer?
If so -- we definitely want to hear from you!
Write to us and tell us exactly what you'd like to see Jenny do.
Make sure to include your questions and thoughts in detail. And make sure ONLY to write if you'd be willing to talk to us on national television.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Here's the suggestion I sent to them.
I want Jenny McCarthy to get schooled. I want her to invite educated, intelligent scientists and doctors on her show, who each week dissect her vapid little opinions and dismantle her cherished biases. I want her to be embarrassed in every hour. And I want her to get a little wiser, episode by episode, so that by the end of a year she actually becomes an informed and interesting person.
Help people learn some actual science and medicine by making Jenny McCarthy a public example, and help McCarthy become a better human being -- one who doesn't kill children with her ignorance.
Do you think they'll go for that?
I'm still boggled that anyone, anyone at all is still holding onto the autism/vaccinations link--not only were there always troubling questions about the validity of the original study that started the whole mess, right from the beginning, but it was decisively debunked and the author exposed as a fraud and a cheat just a couple of months ago. Everything comes from that one Lancet article, and there's no reputable anyone anywhere in the world who now believes that article to be anything but a piece of number-massaged shit.
At this point Captain Logic is not only not steering Jenny McCarthy's tugboat, he's been bludgeoned and dumped overboard in the dead of night.
I feel so bad for all the abuse Captain Logic suffers these days....
I'm still boggled that anyone, anyone at all is still holding onto the autism/vaccinations link
We're starting to get the fallout from it in the UK. (Warning: needle in this link*) [link] Don't know how this compares with situations in other countries, but it's scary. Apparently there are huge numbers of parents here who *still* won't get their kids immunized.
*My other half passes out upon seeing a needle. I've learnt to put warnings on things.
At this point Captain Logic is not only not steering Jenny McCarthy's tugboat, he's been bludgeoned and dumped overboard in the dead of night.
I totally agree that logic is not where she is at. Where that plays seems to be is a deep disappointment and anger and upset and an inability to understand sometimes medical shit Just Happens and the humans don't control everything. Try as hard as we'd like.
It makes me feel sad.
