Morning Coffee Monthly Archive

Some treat!

Apparently her kid didn't like what he got, so she said "Oh you wanted an M&M?" and reached into my bowl and started rifling around for what she wanted.

And now a kid just wanted to argue about whether i put any candy in his bowl.

FUCK THIS.

Mosh

http://www.gnn.tv/content/eminem_mosh.html

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

NO SHAME

Anything to keep Osama Bin Laden's face on screen for the next three days. There is no depth too low.

In other news "K-Mart Refuses to Carry Carlin Book" becasue cover makes fun of The Last Supper.

My stomach hurts.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

It was the size of a firetruck, but blue and with internal cabin space. Certainly not designed to be inconspicuous.

Gee, i wonder if they are anticipating more aggression than usual from the crowd after killing that girl and shooting some other people in the recent past? Whoopsie!

(Seriously, though, what is UP with the "Yay my team won, let's break that chick's windshield while she's in the car and then flip over that guy's SUV"? Fucking Boston.)

Gibson Blog

Neil Gaiman supplied the pointer.

In your face, Coulter!

i wonder if it was the work of the Biotic Baking Brigade or just some of their allies.

ETA: Ahhh, there is a video. (You can't use Safari though.) i love the shot of the perp with the evidence on his hands. i imagine him trying to wash off the custard like Lady Macbeth. Out, damned spot, out, I say!
Credit goes to Wonkette.

Timothy Leary's Dead

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Enjoy the Draft!

http://www.enjoythedraft.com/

Homesick

For sign pilferer, politicians aren't only ones falling flat on their face

A Lakewood Republican stealing campaign signs late one night got nabbed when he ran across a low- hanging driveway chain, fell face first onto a pilfered sign and the concrete and knocked himself unconscious.

Randal Wagner, 50, was loaded into an ambulance, treated at Lutheran Medical Center for abrasions and facial cuts and issued a summons.

Wagner, who unsuccessfully tried to steal a "Dave Thomas" congressional sign that evening, had signs for other Democratic candidates in his Toyota pickup, Wheat Ridge police reported.

"I did a very stupid thing," Wagner said Monday, admitting theft of the signs. "I got caught up in the political passions of this highly contested election."

Wake him up before you go-go

Thanks, Matt.

Happy 50th, Big Guy

Tatou et Jeunet encore!

Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement)

Skip the flash site and go straight to the French trailer...

or go to the English-language version of trailer with annoying vo guy.

Bush jokes

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to change a light bulb?

The answer is: 10

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed.
2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed.
3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb.
4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either "for"changing the light bulb or "for" darkness.
5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Haliburton for the new light bulb.
6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: "Lightbulb Change Accomplished"
7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark
8. One to viciously smear #7.
9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along.
10. And finally, one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

Mystical soot

i love the part where they show the swastika as the projection of the tetrahedron . The good kind of swastika, of course. Uh-huh.

CSPI petition

Dear [George Bush -OR- John Kerry],

Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity are leading causes of death in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, unhealthy eating and inactivity cause at least 400,000 deaths each year by contributing to obesity, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Indeed, for non-smokers, poor diet and inactivity are the major causes of preventable death. With two-thirds of Americans overweight or obese, we need to give people a fighting chance at eating better and maintaining a healthy weight.

If you are elected president, I urge you to implement policies that make it easier for people to eat well. I am particularly interested in how you stand on the following three issues:

Faces of Frustration

Faces of Frustration and Bush vs. Reality are instant classics.

Exuberance

One of the things that's striking in academic literature in psychology is how many words we have for depression and anxiety and fear and how relatively few words we have for joy. If you really looked at where the words for joy come from they come from theology and literature. But we don't really talk about joy a lot. We look for it, but I don't think we talk about it.

Salon interview (registration required)

30-something childless whores

Rabbit blog.

Ramtha 1/2

Who knew? Well, Ramtha did, of course.

Which is fine with me, right until they start f*&^ing around with quantum physics. Though i guess i should have known that quantum physics held the answer to depression. Heisenberg seemed like a happy guy, after all.

Methyl Bromide not going away

Si se puede!

Pesticide Persisting Beyond Scheduled Elimination Date

WATSONVILLE, Calif. - Planting time is near in John Steinbeck's old haunts. A fork on the back of a tanker-tractor dips 12 inches down into the soil and emits a gaseous cocktail to kill any fungus or micro-organism that could threaten next spring's strawberries. Mexican workers, wearing antiseptic white suits but no face masks, follow close behind, tamping down the white plastic sheeting that covers the loamy fields.

They are fumigating Will Garroutte's strawberry fields with methyl bromide, a pesticide so witheringly effective it is a farmer's dream. But it is not an environmentalist's.

Methyl bromide is considered more destructive to the protective ozone layer in the stratosphere than some banned chemicals and has been linked to an increased risk of prostate cancer in farm workers.

After a decade in which the use of the fumigant decreased by more than 70 percent among developed nations, consumption of methyl bromide is poised to rise next year. That has environmentalists worried

Rescue Factors

Embryonic Stem Cells Correct Congenital Heart Defect in Mouse Embryos

Can Signal Neighbor Cells to Repair

A study published in the October 8 issue of Science describes a previously unsuspected capacity of embryonic stem cells to influence neighboring defective cells and restore their capacity to function normally.

Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center report that 15 embryonic stem cells injected into early embryos of mice whose hearts were genetically predisposed to develop a lethal defect, rescued the heart from developing the disorder by not only producing normal daughter cells that were incorporated into the defective embryonic heart but also by releasing biological factors into the nearby vicinity. This prevented neighboring heart cells from developing into defective tissue.

"In other words, stem cells act like nurses, restoring 'sick' cells to health" said Robert Benezra, PhD, a Member in the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the study's senior author. "The result was that fifty-percent of the mice fated to die in the womb were born with healthy hearts."

And this little piggy went

Man i suck at this but the piggies are SO CUTE.

Thanks, Charitee

And the north winds bwow...

Wa-hey!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

Also, the answer to comment spam may be on hand, so we shall once again have comments. Huzzah!

Exercise & Nutrition good!

A comprehensive report on the causes and solutions for childhood obesity in the United States has taken a new approach to the epidemic. The report, which was released on Thursday by a panel of top researchers, calls for a broad societal strategy rather than focusing on personal responsibility.

The proposals, by the National Academies' Institute of Medicine, include healthier meals in schools and restaurants; more opportunities for physical education at schools and in communities; restrictions in television advertising to children; and education of health professionals and children to make better choices.

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The committee recommended:

• The enactment of nutritional standards for all food and beverages served in school and development of programs to teach health education with annual assessments of student weight;
• Expansion of physical activity for students in school to at least 30 minutes a day;
• Voluntary development and setting of guidelines for advertising and marketing to children;
• Authorization of the Federal Trade Commission to monitor the guidelines;
• Availability of more healthful food and beverage options, including nutrition information;
• Community programs to promote nutrition and regular physical activity, with changes in zoning to include sidewalks, bike paths, parks and playgrounds;
• Availability of healthy foods at home; parental encouragement of physical activity and limiting children's recreational viewing of television, video games and computers to less than two hours a day;
• Creation of a federal interagency task force to coordinate activities.

Dr. Shiriki Kumaniyika, an associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a committee member, said the problem could not be addressed piecemeal. "You can't remove any of the recommendations in order for them to work," Dr. Kumaniyika said.

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