140 posts tagged appalling

We tease Le Devoir because we love it. You had to read that paper’s Alec Castonguay this morning to begin to understand the true extent of the Harper government’s clapped-together, carefully-obscured, clumsily-exercised plan to rebuild the Roman legions on Canadian soil.

A new report from Australia finds that people with mental illness are not receiving the support they need to improve their health habits. Health promotion programs such as smoking cessation, cardiovascular fitness and overall wellness activities are underrepresented for people living with mental illness.

“Cats are like potato chips, you can’t have just one.”

I was at a Radio Shack today, and discovered a package labeled “High Speed USB 2.0 Beverage Warmer!” I had to read it several times before I convinced myself that I wasn’t misreading. A hot-plate plugged into your computer is fairly weird in and of itself, but it would only need to draw power from

Some things just beg you to put on a puzzled and/or disbelieving expression and say “huh?”. This qualifies as one of them.

In typical True Believer® fashion, Michael Gerson’s column in The Washington Post, entitled “A Phony ‘War on Science’” demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what science is.  And also, in typical “patriotic” fashion he displays the same appalling lack of knowledge of American history. 

Vacationing in the buff? Hey, why not?

Immature displays show appalling lack of judgment - Hilton Head Island Packet

What An Odd Position In Which to Find Myself May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Barren & Bitter | 3 Comments » For once, I’m the calm one. The rational one. The one who realizes that there isn’t a finite amount of babies in the world and that someone else getting pregnant doesn’t mean that that I have one less chance of getting there myself.

The ugliness and murderousness of the American Empire is no longer–if it ever was–a matter of hyperbole. The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life Dateline: May 1, 2008 \\  www.killinghope.org Since I gave up hope, I feel better.