dont-talk-to-me-phones
Posted: 2012/01/31 Filed under: awesome person, humor Leave a comment
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The War On Pills
Posted: 2012/01/30 Filed under: politics Leave a commentThere’s no question that prescriptions for opioid painkillers like Oxycontin and Percocet have soared in recent years. It’s also clear that there are some rogue doctors and “pill mills” who unscrupulously hand out prescriptions, sometimes to patients who shouldn’t get them, sometimes to drug addicts and drug dealers pretending to be pain patients. But it’s also far from certain that the painkiller abuse and overdoses are as dire as the government is making it out to be. And to the extent that there is a problem, it’s due more to a decade of aggressive policing, obstinate federal law enforcement agencies, and the encroachment of law enforcement into the practice of medicine than lax government oversight. The DEA in particular has been scaring reputable doctors away from pain management since the late 1990s. People who suffer from chronic pain simply can’t find doctors willing to treat them over the long term. The unscrupulous doctors and pill mills in the headlines have sprung up to fill the void.
via Radley Balko: The War Over Prescription Painkillers.
Never Sleep Alone Bed Set
Posted: 2012/01/29 Filed under: art, I want Leave a comment
via Never Sleep Alone Bed Set by christiemelissa on Etsy.
YES PLZ
The Calling
Posted: 2012/01/29 Filed under: awesome person Leave a commentThe Calling
They would just drop in. Once a month for the past 12 years, always uninvited. Jane White would answer the door of her East Sussex home to find smiling Jehovah’s Witnesses offering the latest issue of The Watchtower and the chance to hook up with their kind of Jesus. She would tell them to go away. But they’d come back.
After the one visit too many, Jane White returned the favour by banging on the Kingdom Hall doors at 10 o’clock Sunday morning, right in the middle of services, and offered those within free magazines. Her crusade lasted 30 minutes before police arrived and told her to shove off.
“It is not the religion I object to, it is just the intrusion into my privacy which I find annoying,” White explained. A spokesman for Britain’s Jehovah’s Witnesses said that, had they known White didn’t want the visits, they would have stopped coming. White expects that they now know. :
—Scott Saxon
via Networthy links.
Brain’s too hot :(
Posted: 2012/01/28 Filed under: I want, technology Leave a commentAccording to research presented Monday at Sleep 2011, the annual meeting of the Associated Profession Sleep Societies, cooling the brain and can reduce the amount of time it takes people with insomnia to fall asleep — and increase the length of time they stay that way.
via Insomnia: Can’t sleep? Try cooling your brain – Los Angeles Times.
I want!
The Man Who Made Lists
Posted: 2012/01/28 Filed under: academics, awesome person, books, hobby Leave a commentRoget himself turned out humorless and judgmental, beset with a “paranoid streak” as well as melancholy and shyness, not to mention a horror of “dirt and disorder” — the Thesaurus entry for “uncleanness” is a lollapalooza. So one can scarcely be surprised by the refuge he seems to have taken in workaholism and an assortment of small compulsions, including his “obsession with counting.” (“I every day go up at least 320 steps.”) He took particular pleasure in an ability to control the movements of the iris in his own eye.
via The Man Who Made Lists – Joshua Kendall – Book Review – New York Times.
My god, do I love lists & thesauruses. I’d write a whole list why I do, but it would just be a lot of synonyms and stuff.
Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After DWI Gets $22M
Posted: 2012/01/28 Filed under: events, politics Leave a commentA man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico’s Dona Ana County Jail.
Slevin said he made countless requests to see a doctor to get medication for his depression, but wasn’t allowed to see one until only a few weeks before his release. He also never got to see a judge.
via Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After DWI Gets $22M | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth.
left handed
Posted: 2012/01/26 Filed under: humor Leave a comment
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Time Traveler From The Year 1998 Warns Nation Not To Elect Newt Gingrich
Posted: 2012/01/26 Filed under: humor, media, politics 1 CommentWASHINGTON—Saying he came bearing an important message from the past, a stranger from the year 1998 appeared on the Capitol steps Thursday and urged voters not to elect Newt Gingrich president in 2012. “In the late 20th century, Newt Gingrich is a complete disgrace!” said the time-traveling man, warning Americans that 14 years in the not-so-distant past, Gingrich becomes the only speaker in the history of the House of Representatives to be found guilty on ethics charges, and is later forced to resign. “In my time, he shuts down the federal government for 28 days because his feelings get hurt over having to sit at the back of Air Force One. Gingrich gets our president impeached for lying about marital infidelities when, at the same time, Gingrich himself is engaged in his own extramarital affairs. And for Gods sake, he divorced his first wife after she was diagnosed with cancer. Wont anyone listen to me?!?” When asked about Donald Trump, the time-traveler said he had no information on the man, as no one from 1998 cared about a “washed-up fake millionaire.”
So damn brilliant.
John R. Talbott: The End of Romney
Posted: 2012/01/21 Filed under: politics Leave a commentThe Wall Street Journal reports today in its story entitled ‘Romney’s Unorthodox IRA’ that Mitt Romney has between $20.7 million and $101.6 million parked in his IRA.
IRA’s were created by Congress as a means of encouraging Americans to save for their retirement. It appears given the magnitude of the amounts involved that Mitt Romney is using his IRA in a complex tax avoidance scheme.
via John R. Talbott: The End of Romney.
Um…. seriously?
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