Morning Coffee Monthly Archive

WANT

Now there's a '30-something childless whore' tee-shirt! YAAAAY!

XL Baby Doll, 'cause i find that funny. (Though i may want to hold out for the redhead holding a martini one ;)

M&C

Still reserving judgement

Time shall tell....

i love Anna Nicole!

God bless you, Anna Nicole. i'm quite disappointed that we don't get to see her carried offstage.

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

From an e-mail announcement:

To reflect its growing membership and commitment to positive action, the coalition formerly known as Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children (SCEC) has renamed itself the CAMPAIGN FOR A COMMERCIAL-FREE CHILDHOOD (CCFC).

To learn more about the name change and what we’re doing, we invite you to visit our brand new website:

http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org

The new site not only looks great, but includes some exciting new features such as printable fact sheets about marketing to children, developed with our Quad Cities chapter CCFC/QC

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Purity Of Essence

i guess General Jack D. Ripper might have had a point after all.

From the "Bottom Line Daily Health Newsletter":

FRIEND OR FOE

The controversy over fluoridation of our water rages on. Fluoride is supposedly good for dental health. However, research continues to demonstrate that it is harmful to our general health. Is it worth the trade-off?

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Healing America

Now more than ever, we can heal through song:

http://filmstripinternational.com/

Not! Work! Safe!

(Credit goes to an Anonymous Source Who Knows Who S/he Is.)

Studley! Dudley!

So not only is he one of the finest men i've ever met, and a Nobel Laureate and all, but NOW i'm impressed! Dr Herschbach made an appearence on The Simpsons. It was actually last year's "Treehouse " episode, which they aired last Sunday. See what happens when you stop watching?

EABF21 - Treehouse Of Horror XIV (First Aired 11/03/03)

sound clip 1 (mp3) sound clip 2 (mp3)

• "Reaper Madness" - Death becomes Homer and our hero must learn to reap what he sows (and pull a fast one on the almighty).
• "Frinkenstein" - Soon to be Nobel-prize winning Professor Frink reanimates his father for some gruesome body parts-swapping.
• "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off" - A parody of Clockstoppers, starring Bart and Milhouse.

  Guest stars for the episode include Jerry Lewis, Jennifer Garner, Dudley Herschbach, and Oscar De La Hoya.

Strangely, they are showing *this* year's Treehouse tonight. *shrug* For those who don't want to listen to the mp3s:

Announcer: He explored the behaviour of individual molecules in chemical reactions. She's the sexy star of Alias. Please welcome Nobel Prize winner Dr. Dudley Herschbach and Emmy nominee, Jennifer Garner.
Jennifer: You know Dr. Herschbach, our jobs are actually not that different.
Dudley: I disagree.

later

Jennifer: This is the most exciting nobel prize ceremony ever!
Dudley: I disagree!

According to The Crimson Article there was a lot mre dialogue, i will have to get it on tape and capture it one day.

CO redeems itself

Students at Colo. high school protest Bush

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Salon.com Nov. 5, 2004 | BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- About 85 high school students upset about the nation's direction were camping out in the school library, demanding an audience with Republican leaders.

Students began their protest Thursday and school officials said they could stay through Friday when representatives of their Democratic congressman, U.S. Rep. Mark Udall, and U.S. Senator-elect Ken Salazar, were expected to visit.

The students said they also wanted to meet with their superintendent's representatives along< with Republicans Gov. Bill Owens and U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave.

Some of the students left telephone messages with Republican leaders.

"We want them to reassure us that our fears are misguided and that the government is doing everything in its power to prevent our futures from being destroyed,'' said senior Brian Martens, who wore a hand-lettered T-shirt which said he was the ``senior executive of the subcommittee on protesting stuff.''

Students said they are not protesting the election, but are worried about the national debt, military recruitment in schools and the environment.

Naked man hides in plane wheel well

i want to leave the country really badly too, right now, but climbing naked over barbed wire?!?

Naked man hides in plane wheel well

Salon.com Nov. 4, 2004 | Los Angeles -- A man was charged with trespassing after he stripped naked, scaled a airport fence, ran across the tarmac and climbed into a plane's wheel well before firefighters talked him out, officials said.

The man had earlier tried to buy a ticket for a Qantas Airways flight to Australia with only a credit card receipt. He told authorities at Los Angeles International Airport that he stripped off his clothes Monday to protest the airline's decision to deny him the ticket, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.

The man, Neil Melly, 31, of Canada, suffers from bipolar disorder (also called manic-depressive illness) and had been listed as a missing person in Canada, Castles said. He was booked on a tresspassing charge, and was released from custody Tuesday.

Baggage handlers saw the man climb an 8-foot, barbed-wire fence that separates public and private areas of the airport and run to a departing plane as it backed from the gate. He climbed into a wheel well before the plane stopped.

He ignored police officers' commands to come out, but complied when city firefighters arrived. The Boeing 747, bound for Melbourne, Austrialia, departed an hour late.

Airport authorities will look into improving the fence, said Paul Haney, a spokesman for the agency that operates the airport.