evolution

You know, I never liked Sublime’s music. Ever. Put that in your paraphernalia and smoke it.

Also: internet was down, but it’s back for now – evolution’s seventh birthday was one week ago today.

MEMORANDUM
TO: People of Earth
FROM: j.d.
RE: The Iranian “revolution”

So a bunch of young, smart, technologically capable Iranians are protesting¹ a crooked election that re-installed the mullahs’ golden boy once again. While that’s a healthy response and all, wake me up when something new happens. You people realize that the other guy, Mousavi, doesn’t even get to the position he’s in unless he passes the mullahs’ muster at some point, right?

There is also no reason on Earth to believe that any government that the people of Iran would be materially different save for the corruption, especially vis-a-vis the United States.

So, count me among the people that aren’t getting too worked up over something that will ultimately amount to nothing.

1. 1979 called, and wants its story back. [↩]

I saw them as I was leaving the ballgame (a 10-5 Royals loss) last night — people wearing St. Louis Cardinals shirts, with Nebraska Cornhusker license plates on the front, and on the back… Saline County, Kansas tags.

Would a KBI agent tow their trailer house over the state line, please?

I should watch what I say about health care and health insurance, but let me point you to the results of an essay contest on the topics put on by the Society of Actuaries. The Barry essay probably aligns most closely with my own views.

If you want to join the list, pick five of whatever you’re into and post ‘em in the comments. In no particular order.

• Elizabeth Hurley (Bedazzled¹, the Austin Powers movies). Hugh Grant is a retard. I went to Google Images to look for a picture for you people, and twenty minutes later I forgot what I was supposed to be doing.
• Eva Green (Casino Royale). Just saw it on USA this weekend in high-definition. The scene where she struts into the game room while Daniel Craig’s Bond is playing cards to tell him what a bastard he is would have been worth the ticket price by itself. But then no one saw me sobbing myself to sleep, so that’s a plus.
• Drew Barrymore. Probably a popular one with guys my age. I’m talking about the girl-next-door, Never Been Kissed Drew Barrymore, not the David-Letterman-flashing, Tom-Green-marrying Drew Barrymore. I think I could be persuaded to suppress those memories, however.
• Bar Rafaeli (cover of 2009 Sports Illustrated “swimsuit issue”). I shouldn’t have to explain this entry (if you are also a heterosexual man). Just go look.
• (Of course) Elin Grindemyr. Has made previous appearances in this space.

Yeah, I need the hits. Sue me.

1. never seen it [↩]

Alternate title: “There’s a bad kind of crazy in the air”.

BALTIMORE – At one of the nation’s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient’s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.

They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it “mystical mumbo jumbo.” Still, he’s a fan.

“It’s self-hypnosis” that can help patients relax, he said. “If you tell yourself you have less pain, you actually do have less pain.”

Alternative medicine has become mainstream. It is finding wider acceptance by doctors, insurers and hospitals like the shock trauma center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Consumer spending on it in some cases rivals that of traditional health care.

O what a time to be alive…

I got home last night at 6:30 after working out, and after checking e-mail and such it was 7:00. I turned on the TV and went to get something to eat. I came back to the sight of host Tim Brown and Eagle editor Dion Lefler on Kansas Week with the chyron “ABORTION DEBATE” at the bottom of the screen.

Let me tell you – I’ve never been so glad to have the sound turned off in all my life.