Baltimore public schools have instituted "Meatless Mondays" for school lunches. The American Meat Institute says "students are being served up an unhealthy dose of indoctrination." Lou Dobbs says it's "a political storm in the making."

I pretty sure some commie idea like that wouldn't fly in my school district. They determined the President's address to students wasn't appropriate.

If they sell it as saving money, rather than vegetarian...which is one of the ideas behind a lot of the changes BCPS made wrt their food service plan.

And during Lent, Fridays were also meatless, though they'd sometimes have fish.

Well, that's okay, as long as Jesus is involved.

Okay, random question... is IVR-148 the same as the pandemic swine flu?

I am seriously going to stab someone today.

Kat, sources say no. It is in the seasonal flu vaccine, and is an H1N1, but isn't the same as the current pandemic strain. [link]

So I went to the Science of Zombies panel last night. They showed the new Romero flick followed by a mathematician who does modeling of disease spread, and a neurobiologist who discussed lower and higher brain functions, and which parts of a zombie brain are affected by disease.

Romero looked smitten at the whole thing.

Weirdly, when we got there, Kristen said, "hey isn't that Colin?"

And it was, in the row behind us.

Amazingly good panel.

Also, a zombie outbreak (with Ottawa as ground zero) would wipe out humanity in ten days.

Also, a zombie outbreak (with Ottawa as ground zero) would wipe out humanity in ten days.

Well, that's a relief. I won't bother trying to survive at the mall after all.

Oh! Oh! And it was moderated by Max Brooks (World War Z).

Well, there were different models depending on different scenarios. Like, if there was a vaccine, about ten percent of the population would remain live humans. If there were escalating military strikes, striking harder each time, we'd wipe it out.

The math dude works mostly in HIV spread modeling.

makes a note to pick up a chainsaw, soon.