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 [...]
IT SUCKS…. updated 8 minutes ago New Haggard accuser: ‘He really thought he was invincible’ STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Accuser says disgraced pastor Ted Haggard talked of having “fun on the side” NEW: Church says it won’t reclaim $179,000 settlement to Grant Haas Man was 22 and struggling with his sexuality when he met Haggard Haggard [...]
YESTERDAY, A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN HAPPINESS….. Just Hours Away …a note from Michael Moore Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Friends, This happy, happy day! We have made it through the Dark Ages and here we are, in one of the most redemptive moments history has ever witnessed. Barack Obama is our best hope to [...]
ER, UH, EXCUSE ME….. Director accidentally shoots actor during play rehearsal Nosheen Iqbal and agencies guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 January 2009 14.58 GMT Article history A Smith and Wesson .38 calibre gun. Photograph: PA Real-life tragedy nearly struck at a Florida theatre on Monday night, when an actor fired a live gun at a cast member’s [...]