FROM THE GUARDIAN, AND THE GUARDIAN KNOWS….. Transplant row over organs for drinkers • Alcohol abusers receive 1 in 4 livers • Doctors ‘can refuse to do operations’ Jamie Doward and Denis Campbell The Observer, Sunday 15 February 2009 Heavy drinkers are receiving nearly one in four of the UK’s liver transplants, it was revealed [...]
APOCRYPHAL, SOMETHING THE ONION MIGHT DREAM UP, BUT WITH ITS WEIGHT IN INSIGHT…… (reprinted without permission — The Brushback knows……) Public domain after 5 minutes AMES, IA–Members of the Make-A-Wish Foundation struggled to come up with a response to a dying 9-year-old boy’s request that they punch slugger Barry Bonds in the nuts repeatedly. The [...]
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN SOMETHING AND ARE ASKED TO DIE FOR IT, THEN IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SUICIDE MIGHT BE A CREATIVE FORM OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, OR, FOR THAT MATTER, A WAY OF WORKING OUT GUILT FOR HAVING COMMITTED UNSPEAKABLE ACTS IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM….COMMENT? Army official: Suicides in January ‘terrifying’ [...]
SO THERE ALL YOU MATH WIZARDS!!! Palin rails against ‘anonymous, pathetic bloggers’ By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Thursday, February 5, 2009 (02-05) 08:29 PST New York (AP) – Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is still mad at media coverage of her candidacy, particularly “anonymous, pathetic bloggers” who she says spread falsehoods about [...]