This kind of stuff will stop happening as soon as the public stops demanding that the government protect us all from the evils that candidates use to scare the public when they accuse each other of not doing enough to protect the public from said evils.
Which is to say: never.
The A.V. Club asks:
Not counting books read in childhood—when our horizons tend to be pretty small and we love to read the same picture book or junior novel over and over—or books you’ve had to read for classes or professional purposes or whatever, what books have you voluntarily gone back and re-read most often?
Mine is, easily, "The Lord Of The Rings". I can't actually think of any others that I've re-read more than once. There are a handful that I've read twice, but usually I'm a one-and-done kindof guy. But LOTR is both long and enough and slow enough in parts that every time I read it I find things that I skipped over or just missed the last time.
You?
JOPLIN, Mo. - An aggressive fungus is striking Joplin tornado victims, contributing to a handful of deaths.
Doctors told the Springfield News-Leader that at least nine survivors may have contracted blood-vessel invading zygomycosis infections.
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Kendra Williams, of the health department, says the common fungus likely came from soil or vegetative materials imbedded in the skin by the tornado.
Aiieiiiieeeee!
When US election time comes around, many people here will wistfully hope that one party wins the House and that the other party will win the Senate, thus setting up the wonderous state where partisan considerations prevent any legislation of significance from passing: "gridlock". This is, the theory goes, a good thing because a Congress that can't do anything is a Congress that can't fuck up anything.
Well, the GOP has the House and the Dems have the Senate (though only barely because the Senate is a completely broken institution). So, all, you cynical wishers: your wish has come true. And
we are all suffering because of it.
Elaine Davidson has an eye-watering 6,925 piercings covering her body – including 500 studs in her genitalia.
Brazilian-born Elaine, 46, got hitched to her older lover Douglas Watson, who is aged in his 60s, at a low-key wedding reception in Edinburgh yesterday.
She made a bizarre sight in a flowing white wedding gown and floral tiara with only her face visible – which was painted green and covered in 192 piercings.
Pix on the article at swns.com !
Weiner: I have made terrible mistakes.
Confesses to sending original Twitter pic.
Tearful apology to family and friends. "I came here to accept the full responsibility for what i have done."
"I am not resigning."
"I don't know what I was thinking." Calls his own behavior "destructive" and "dumb."
"I regret not being honest about this. ... I was embarrassed. I was humiliated."
"This is not something that can be treated away."
Weiner says his online relationships involved some 6 women. "Some of these relationships date back as long as three years."
His weak-ass non-denials sure brought out the defensive reflexes in a lot of lefties though!