A Peculiar Blog

I just read a blog entry titled “Disposeable soldiers“. It’s one of those things that wakes you up and makes you ask “Can this really be happening?”. The pathetic answer is “Yes, It can.”
According to an investigation reported on Good Morning America The Veterans Administration is up to it’s eyeballs in a scandal [...]

With weight loss becoming quite literally one of the “biggest” health issues that people are talking about all the time these days, one of the things that’s become just as big is the things that people are willing to consider doing about it. People have gone to all sorts of extremes from spending tens [...]

In spite of what you might think from the name, Jeffers Pet is quite a bit more than just a pet supply store. Yeah, you can get all of the usual run of cat & dog supplies from toys to flea & tick treatments but they cover a lot more territory than just that. [...]

I saw an item on slashdot a few days ago that’s been gnawing at me for a while now. It involves a story about somebody referred to as “Australia’s Geekiest Man” and the fact that in his effort to create a software controlled environemnt that he’s had an RFID tag implanted in his arm.
Currently [...]

I love it when I find headlines like this:
STEM CELL BREAKTHROUGH AVOIDS EMBRYO USE
U.S. and Japanese research teams have both, independently, reported success in making
skin cells take on characteristics of stem cells. The technique avoids the swarm of
ethical, political and practical obstacles involved with cloning embryos.

… because it proves what a lot of us have [...]

We’ve all heard of it. Most of us have heard stories about friends who have a loved one with the disease and a lot of us have loved ones with it. We saw the tragic news stories that told the story of how Ronald Reagan suffered from it until in the end he [...]

You know how the tv series “Law and Order” often uses “Ripped from the Headlines” to describe an upcoming episode that addresses issues from a real life case? Well this is a reverse case. On the tv Series “Boston Legal” not long ago, the character Alan Shore (played by James Spader) raised a [...]