Robert Lanza, MD is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is the author of "Biocentrism," a book that lays out his theory of everything.

Oh, but is it a supertheory of supereverything?

I really wish my boss was a better writer, because everything she has to say is great, but nurses are taught to be very brief and she is fairly new to academic writing. She ends up with either "short and choppy with sentence fragments" or what my professor called "bad learned prose" where you basically dress things up with big words and passive voice.

Many, many nurses write like this, and get published, so I don't want to be too critical of her writing (even though I just want it to get better). But uncomfortable.

I think the problem is that the two items are redundant. Rising cost of healthcare v. healthcare spending. Is there really a substantive difference there? I would go with one or the other because with both it's going to sound wrong either way to some readers.

It's one of the oldest and ugliest lies in the creationist bag of tricks: blame Darwin for the Holocaust. It's been debunked countless times.

I've never really understood this argument, even if Hitler cited evolution/natural selection as a motivating reason for the Holocaust, it says nothing about the validity of the theory. I suppose the idea must be that we should suppress the science regardless of the evidence.

This is unfair - it's hotter here in Brooklyn than at my parents house in DC where we just left! We were driving northeast for 5 hours! Isn't that worth at least a few degrees???

And I still have to go back outside to go grocery shopping and return the car. Blast.

even if Hitler cited evolution/natural selection as a motivating reason for the Holocaust, it says nothing about the validity of the theory.

No no no, everything Hitler ever had even a remote connection with is automatically and permanently linked with EVIL.

For example: Nazi uniforms included pants. THEREFORE, pants-wearing caused the holocaust. Everyone who is not a nudist obviously loves Hitler and should be shunned by all right-thinking people.

Also, the Wright Brothers' theories led directly to 9/11.

Goddamnit, was trying to buy an airline ticket and the price went up just as I was about to purchase. Graargh.

Huff Po has one virtue...making Kos look good. Even though we do have wank outbreaks.

Can confirm the hotness of outside in NY. We are done with appt#1, did a short errand to bestbuy and are now at appt#2. We will be eating at Hooters next and I will have a HUGE iced tea.