There’s a lot of buzz going on about a study that claims that doctors routinely prescribe placebos.
If this is something that alarms you, I encourage you to read this.
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CSU is getting a lot of press this week. The editor of the student newspaper wrote and printed an editorial that consisted of only four words:
Taser this…F*ck Bush
The profanity was, of course, spelled out.
From the Rocky Mountain News:
J. David McSwane, editor-in- chief of the Rocky Mountain Collegian at Colorado State University, could be suspended or […]

This makes me sick to my stomach:
Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father.
But the Peking duck and liquor weren’t enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang’s wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and […]

A SC parts supplier billed the Pentagon $998,798 for sending two $0.19 washers to a Texas base - and the Pentagon paid it. In fact, the Pentagon shelled out more than $20 million over 6 years in fraudulent shipping costs. Apparantly, once the supplier realized that they would be paid, they got bolder in the […]

Few things make me as unbelievably angry as this:
Respiratory therapist Wayne Albert Bleyle was in New York state on a wintry day when investigators called him about allegations he had molested patients too sick to defend themselves.
When they asked how many children he molested, investigators said, he looked out his window and asked, “How many […]

Louisiana is the first state to ban late-term abortions since a federal ban was upheld earlier this year.
The new law allows the procedure only when the mother’s life would be endangered without it. It would be a crime in all other cases, including when the pregnancy is expected to cause health problems for the mother.
The […]

Somebody please tell me this is a joke.
The Pentagon confirmed to CBS affiliate KPIX-TV it considered a chemical weapon that would turn enemy troops gay.
A watchdog organization that tracks military spending first uncovered the strange military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested […]

Head on over to Reformed Chicks Blabbing for discussion on a new theme park…
…the park would feature Bible stories as part of a cultural history, “with the quality of Disney World and the size of Dollywood.” Entrance will be through the “Gates of Jericho” (presumably depicted prior to Joshua’s fanfare). There will be a pastoral […]

The School Committee in Winchester, MA has voted to remove all religious holidays from the school calendar, and they’re starting with Good Friday.
I do understand the logic behind the decision. I disagree, but I understand. My concern is one that was voiced in the article:
In response to a question of whether school staff would take […]

Have you heard about this? (HT: Musicguy)
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A woman blames the devil, and not her husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a Texas television station reported.
Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of […]