Medical myths
Debra Melani writing for Scripps Howard: "Remember Grandma's foreboding threat that if you stepped outside without a coat, you would "catch your death of cold"?" "Or maybe it was Dad's sage advice that if...
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Rick Stanley
In the July 3rd Rocky Mountain News, Stanley says he's not racist – Libertarian Senate candidate defends use of poem 'Illegal' in immigration e-mail: Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Rick Stanley says he's not a...
Neil Peart and Rush
I went to the Rush concert last night at Nissan Pavilion. The show was intense and the trio showed the crowd that they still have it. I guess several years away from the road...
The Wrath of Farrakhan
Thanaa Imam writing for UPI in the Washington Times: "Iraq's state-run media has quoted Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as saying during a visit to Baghdad that American Muslims are praying for an...
Real Patriots
Cathy Young in Reason: "Make no mistake, there are people on the left (MIT linguist Noam Chomsky comes to mind) who seem to truly hate America and everything it stands for. They will reflexively...
Profiling vs. “Racial” Profiling
In the Washington Times Profiling scorned as 'false comfort': "It is very tempting to take false comfort in the belief that we can spot the bad guy based on appearance alone," Mr. Mineta told...
Staff Meetings II
11:32 am and still waiting. What a waste of time. Oh well, more time for blog-reading.
Pop vs. Soda
Radley Balko's got an interesting series of posts on the subject. My take. In Central Illinois, say Bloomington, Pekin, Morton or Peoria (Tazewell, Woodford and Peoria counties), where I am from, most folks say...