The Evening Quote
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012“People now don’t die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things.”
–Congressional Candidate NY-27 Chris Collins (R – of course)
Tell that to the 30,000 or so men who die from prostate cancer, and the 40,000 or so women who die from breast cancer each year. Assrocket.
The Living Dead
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Ol’ Nosferatu himself has had a heart transplant.
All I can think is that I hope the family of the donor never learns that Blam-Blam was the recipient of the good deed that they did. I thought for an instant about tearing up the donor card on the back of my license, I really did.
Update: Our friend Jurassic Pork at the essential Welcome Back To Pottersville blog has a terrific, Letterman-style Top 10 on Blam-Blam’s heart transplant. Enjoy!
Update 2: The comments at the news story are very funny, but as usual the paste-eating mouth-breathers are saying that the snarky comments on Blam-Blam not deserving a heart are typical liberal hypocrisy. You could almost see it coming. Here’s my favorite exchange so far:
(H/t Secret Scissorhead Steven)
Why is K-Lo smiling?
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
If there’s one lesson everyone in President Carebear’s administration should have learned by now it is that trying to appease the nut jobbers, obstructionists, and Xristian Xrazies never works.
Anyway, on to today’s exhibit A for Appeasement: Kathleen Sebelius has just single-handedly restricted the morning-after pill Plan B One-Step from being sold over-the-counter. The FDA, after years of study wanted to make it available over the counter to anyone who needed it.
So in what world does it make sense to require a doctor’s prescription to receive emergency contraception? For it to be effective it must be taken as soon as possible after sex. Per the article, “Women who have unprotected intercourse have about 1 chance in 20 of becoming pregnant. Those who take Plan B within three days cut that risk to about 1 in 40.”
Plan B works by preventing ovulation, and it may also make the lining of the uterus less hospitable to a fertilized egg, and that is why the Xristian Xrazies are so opposed: their nutty belief that life begins at conception.
Sebelius overrode the FDA decision, which once again ensures that reproductive rights will remain a hotbed issue. And oh, the Xristian Xrazies will still not vote for Obama. This is one of the all-time, boneheaded mistakes made by a GOP-lite administration. You just f***ed up the brand, Obama. Good going.
(NYTimes)
Chrome-less Trailer Hitch News
Thursday, January 14th, 2010“A 27-year-old lady presented with persistent cough, sputum and fever for the preceding six months. In spite of trials with antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis treatment for the preceeding four months, her symptoms did not improve. A subsequent chest radiograph showed non-homogeneous collapse-consolidation of right upper lobe. Videobronchoscopy revealed an inverted bag like structure in right upper lobe bronchus and rigid bronchoscopic removal with biopsy forceps confirmed the presence of a condom. Detailed retrospective history also confirmed accidental inhalation of the condom during fellatio.”
(From Discover Magazine via
If you don’t believe in science…
Monday, December 7th, 2009
…what are you doing working as a lab tech?
Several Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia employees were fired for refusing to get the seasonal flu vaccine… “I am a Christian, and my religion prohibits me from receiving vaccines,” said Tyrika Cowlay, who was a lab technician.
Anyone else see a problem here? Someone who is working in a children’s hospital (children are at the highest risk for fatalities for getting the Killer Pig Death Flu) refuses to be immunized, thus endangering the kiddies.
Except for the Christian Science folks (the power of prayer to heal), I don’t know of any mainstream Xristian sects that do off the deep end about medicine. I suppose this person can explain why it is that she works in a hospital but does not believe in medicine, but right off the bat, methinks she is in the wrong field. Maybe she can find a faith healer or other snake handler to give her gainful employment.
Sadly, she will probably get a lot of evangelical support saying it is religious discrimination that she is fired for endangering the kids at the hospital, when truthfully she is unwilling or unfit to do the job.
But that’s the state of play with the Xristian Xrazies and their persecution complex.
(HT: SkinnyDennis who found it on Bad Astronomy)
Summer of Death almost over!
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009As today is the Autumnal Equinox, it means we only have so many hours left for Death to give us its jolly old sting for this terrible, terrible summer.
So, we want to wish Senator Byrd a speedy recovery (the 91 year old Senator from West Virginia fell this morning and was rushed to the hospital once again).
Heh. Clever lads and lasses.
Friday, July 10th, 2009This ought to be a scene in a movie – just freakin’ brilliant!
Children taking part in a study to measure how much exercise they do fooled researchers by attaching their pedometers to their pet dogs.
If I wrote a sex-ed PSA…
Thursday, July 9th, 2009If Sex Ed PSAs Were Realistic — powered by Cracked.com
…It might be something like this.
The worms crawl in…
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009A Florida nursing home has been fined $16,000 by state regulators after a patient was found injured on the floor with maggots crawling out of his leg cast.
Please remember this story the next time some Tea Bagger or other brand of Wingnut tells you that rules and regulations are strangling free enterprise.
(Hat tip: Synthaetica via twitter)
Rushbo, classiest man alive
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Besides not helping our relationship with one of the few foreign countries that does not hate us to the core of their being after eight years of Chimpy McStagger, I don’t think I want to know how Rush got to be so fluent in understanding how you can catch fatal diseases from ass-tongue contact. I suspect it has something to do with precautionary vacinations before he goes on his annual underaged sex tour of the third world.
