“Apparently it’s acupuncture awareness week. Are you aware that acupuncture is little more than superstitious magic with no concrete proof that it does anything a candy bar or a massage couldn’t do? (stolen from Maki Naro)”
—The Ghosts Of Woo: Acupuncture
February 2012
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Just a reminder to everyone to turn your clocks back 24 hours at midnight tonight. (stolen from Scott Snell)
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If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see
I don’t know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
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There’s an agenda behind those cookies the Girl Scouts sell, one bent on promoting communism, lesbianism and subverting “traditional American family values,” according to an Indiana lawmaker.
That’s the reason Rep. Bob Morris, a Republican representing Fort Wayne, insists he won’t go along with a resolution meant to honor the Girls Scouts on the organization’s 100th anniversary.
” —U.S. News - Lawmaker: ‘Radical’ Girl Scouts out to destroy ‘American family values’
“Pediatricians fed up with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children out of concern it can cause autism or other problems increasingly are “firing” such families from their practices, raising questions about a doctor’s responsibility to these patients.”
—WSJ - More Doctors ‘Fire’ Vaccine Refusers
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Italy’s Catholic Church faces an annual multi-million euro bill over government plans to strip it of its tax-exempt status.
Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced the Vatican must pay taxes on non-religious property, from which it previously enjoyed an exemption.
The annual cost could be up to 720m euros ($945m; £598m) according to municipal government bodies.
Italy’s Catholic Church has 110,000 properties, worth about 9bn euros.
It includes shopping centres and a range of residential property.
In December, the government reintroduced a tax paid by anyone who owns land or property in Italy - which the Church does not pay.
” —BBC News - Italy plans to tax Vatican on commercial properties
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“oh oh oh oh, I got a love that keeps me waiting
oh oh oh oh, I got a love that keeps me waiting
Im a lonely boy, I’m a lonely boy
oh oh oh oh, I got a love that keeps me waiting” —Lonely Boy - The Black Keys #earworm
oh oh oh oh, I got a love that keeps me waiting
Im a lonely boy, I’m a lonely boy
oh oh oh oh, I got a love that keeps me waiting” —Lonely Boy - The Black Keys #earworm
The Scale of the Universe - Version 2 (enhanced and updated) →
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A clip from the 25th season’s “Silver Nemesis” that I thought of recently.
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.” —
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.” —
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“Data aggregators’ practices conflict with what people say they want. A 2008 Consumer Reports poll of 2,000 people found that 93 percent thought Internet companies should always ask for permission before using personal information, and 72 percent wanted the right to opt out of online tracking. A study by Princeton Survey Research Associates in 2009 using a random sample of 1,000 people found that 69 percent thought that the United States should adopt a law giving people the right to learn everything a Web site knows about them. We need a do-not-track law, similar to the do-not-call one. Now it’s not just about whether my dinner will be interrupted by a telemarketer. It’s about whether my dreams will be dashed by the collection of bits and bytes over which I have no control and for which companies are currently unaccountable.”
—Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
