Category: General
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‘Far InfraRed’ Weight Loss!
“Hundreds of Bio Ceramic Dots!” What the hell is that? I’m guessing that it’s not harmful, just a bunch of hooey.It must really work, just look at the before and after drawings!from USA Weekend, 27-Sep-2009
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Scotsmen?
I seem to remember seeing a visual to this piece of dialog, the sololoqy of Lady Macbeth, which comes from, “The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail” Massive Mob: (Marching) Oh, is this the dagger that we see before us? The handle’s towards our…
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Vaccination denial
CBS Sunday Morning did a story on people who think H1N1 influenza (and other not currently newsworthy) vaccinations are bad for you. Did these people sleep through biology in High School? Don’t they understand that the body develops immunity by being exposed to a weakened or similar copy of the pathogen?More than likely these people…
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Is Blu-ray dead
On 28 October 2008, Robin Harris at ZDNet wrote: Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150…
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Steve Jobs
People made a big stink about Steve Jobs getting a new liver. But if they have heard as many stories as I have about how many active alcoholics get liver transplants, then continue to drink; I think their anger would be justified; especially if it could have gone to someone who has made the positive…
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Is “War on Drugs” worth it?
Regular readers may recall my several tirades when George Bush declared a, “‘Win’ in the ‘Drug War’.”Last week (15-Sep-2009) in the Christian Science Monitor, they ran an article, “Is war on drugs worth it? Maybe not, new FBI data suggest.In fact if we changed our tune and regulated these commodities as a taxable income source…