Kadiera's Playground Cute but Evil - it averages out

Can someone please enlighten me on the leap of logic that says that gay marriage means teaching 7 & 8 year olds about graphic gay sex? I mean, I heard a guy say this on NPR yesterday, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around how we make that leap.

Especially given the completely inadequate state of current public school teaching of the birds and the bees....

"The truth is, shockingly few prevention efforts actually save the health care system money overall, despite claims by the president and some in Congress."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_he_me/med_health_prevention_re...

It seems to me that if we want to save money on health care, we should start with evidence based medicine - stick with therapies that actually work for most people, until/unless it doesn't work for a specific patient. If therapies don't work, the cost is sort of irrelevant, isn't it?

I am odd -I was never a fan of Jane Austin.

But add in zombies, and some of her work might be entertaining:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30259752/

Our house got broken into last night. I caught the guy because he knocked over some stuff which woke me up.

He got off with my eee laptop, but the police found it in the snow. I fought with him, and got his coat off him as he was trying to escape. The other couple things he picked up were in his coat pockets (including the pizza he stole from the fridge).

His jacket had his parole officer's phone number in his pocket.

The police actually saw him leave the house, as they were checking on a suspicious persons call. They lost him briefly, then tracked him with a dog.

We're fine (but tired), although I'm a bit sore and have a few gouges on my hand. I'm sure I'll bruise terribly, given the aches that are already developing.

On a story about the new administration and pundits who are advising what to do with the Homeland Security Department:

"We can't child-proof our way out of this problem," where "child-proof" referred to more guards, more x-ray machines, more checks of drivers licenses, and so on.

Apparently there's a study published this week that shows that women diagnosed with migraines have a 30% lower risk of breast cancer than those without.

The theory is that both have hormonal components, and migraines tend to follow points where the woman's estrogen is lowest, so combined with the fact that many breast cancers are worse with higher estrogen may suggest that these women naturally have a lower baseline for estrogen levels.

kwame kilpatric text messages as madlibs for the win.

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I was supposed to get a massage at 6 last night. I arrived at 5:45. It took them until almost 6:30 for all three people at the reception desk to figure out who I was, why I was there, and then decide that my massage therapist wasn't there and didn't know she had appointments today. In the meanwhile, I'd watched 45 minutes of chaos as they tried to figure out who was in the waiting room, and where the patients on their check-in list actually were (it's a physical therapy type office). They also ran out of treatment rooms, sent some patients to do their exercises *before* their treatments, and then those same patients came back to the waiting room, and still had to wait for rooms.

...on wild boars in Michigan:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080915/NEWS06/80915039...

"We are not exaggerating when we say the wild boar problem in Michigan is now at crisis proportions," Patrick J. Rusz, director of wildlife programs for the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy, said last week. "They are good for absolutely nothing.

"We're telling people: If you see one, shoot it."

This week there's been news about tainted baby formula in China - one baby dead, 60 or more being treated for kidney stones. Apparently it has melamine, just like the pet food did a while back.

This morning, they're reporting that some of the formula may have made its way to the US (likely only in ethnic grocery stores, but still....): http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17452417/detail.html

A lot of people I know are ambivalent about breastfeeding, and take any mention of cloth diapers, making baby food, or any other attachment parenting or green parenting or crunchy parenting ideas as proof that you need to see a shrink.

But today...I feel somewhat vindicated when it comes to those choices

Barry and I removed all of the typical plastic baby bottles from our registry this weekend, due to ongoing reports like this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/hl_nm/plastic_bottles_canada_dc;_ylt...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada intends to become the first country to ban the import and sale of some types of plastic baby bottles because they contain a chemical that the government says could harm infants and toddlers.
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"Although our science tells us that exposure levels to newborns and infants are below the levels that cause effects, we believe that the current safety margin needs to be higher... It is better to be safe than sorry."
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