Common Sense

I started reading this story just because of the headline: Guinea pigs hail ‘mystical experience’
What mystical experience did they have? How did they hail it? Can they hail it? These and many more questions immediately sprang to mind. I had to read on to find out the answers.

What was the most spiritually meaningful moment in […]

“Kim Jong Il here folks. My daddy always told me that the best way to run a country is to offer folks low, low everyday prices on things that they need.
Like this long-range Taepodong-2 missile. This puppy gets 9,300 miles on a single tank of gas. Perfect for raining hellfire on unsuspecting capitalist dogs, and […]

This is perhaps the clearest, most concise explanation of the net neutrality debate I have ever read. It got a front-page listing on Google news and I can see why.

An advisory committee recommended Thursday that girls 11-12 years-old be vaccinated against HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer.
The panel’s recommendation was hailed by health experts.
“It’s a wonderful thing. It’s good news all around,” said Dr. Connie L. Trimble, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics and pathology at Johns Hopkins’ Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, […]

Professional help. Reading what Lindsay does and what her publicist then says she does, I have to assume that she is going through the five stages of grieving. She has now arrived at the denial stage.
Lindsay flew Nate [no, I don’t double as Lohan’s stylist on the weekends… at least I don’t think I do] […]

(Ed. note: My muse left me recently and I’m having a hard time coming up with funny headlines. I have not better plan than to get really drunk this weekend and hope something funny comes of that.)
BELL TO SPEAK AT NATIONAL STEM CELL SUMMIT
PALO ALTO—Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Chris Bell will participate in a roundtable […]

Rena comments about a column in today’s Trib that is not online. Thanks to modern technology and my Lexmark All-in-One printer/copier/scanner/fax machine, you can read it, too.
The Hal Ritter guest column in question. Click the picture to read the full-size version of the page.

The government just might be watching…
USA Today reported Thursday that U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller have asked Google, Microsoft, AOL, Comcast, Verizon and other Internet service providers to preserve the click-by-click records of Web users far longer than normal.
The information could be mined later to assist investigations into child pornography […]

It’s all about the summer blend, baby.
We’re talking consumer education today. HEB will begin pumping E-85 fuel at the pumps in front of the Bellmead store on the very busy I-35 to help promote alternative fuels.
E-85 is cheaper than 87 octane gasoline, but the trade off is that many cars cannot run on it, and […]

Little Baby Daniel is waiting for death. Normally I would tell you that this is a bad thing, except under the circumstances, his doctors think that would be best for him.
You see, Baby Daniel has irreversible brain damage and cannot live without being hooked up to a breathing tube and a feeding tube. Those charged […]