When will Congress and state legislatures realize that cutting budgets have consequences?

As much as I delight in making fun of Texas, this has the potential to be a serious problem: Texas ranks at or near the bottom in just about every women’s health and reproductive rights metric, and is in close competition with its neighbors. Southern states have among the most restrictive abortion laws, highest…

Is there another division?

Can we compromise and just put a wall around Texas? Everybody wins!

Zika is a team leader.

You stay right where you are, Tex.

No, not really. Just different..

Influenza? Probably not from double-dipping. Maybe from poor hand-washing.

The Big Lebowski - April 10, 1998

Yes, and not just indifference but by all available evidence and active, concerted effort to disengage from the core responsibilities of government. That’s what pisses me off the most about this: People like Snyder run for and are elected to office based on their core philosophical commitment to not fucking governing.…

Here’s the thing: As a scientist myself, I can see - plain as day - that you are thinking primarily as an engineer; I think rational, logical, reasoned thought is both commendable and all too rare.

That is not even remotely true. None of it. Groups A and B participated in daily supervised brushing with fluoride toothpaste at school. It does not say the control group (group C) didn’t brush at all; it says they did not brush at school. It also says the kids who brushed at school had a statistically-significant…

Remembering ice-cold mint Joss-stick label placement in the pocket of legs-clothing for easy showing emergency hospital medicine persons. Faster autopsy-making probably!

A good friend of mine and I were on the yearbook and school newspaper staff together; he was the photographer and I used to help him out in the darkroom, but for whatever reason I never really got into that part of it. I’m a microbiologist and I’ve spent untold hours in the lab doing everything from basic chemistry to…

What a great idea! My dad has a great eye for composition and he gets these great shots that don’t even need any post. I never had that. I would shoot a roll of what I was certain would be amazing, gallery-worthy prints - nighttime long-exposures, artfully-framed high-grain B&W, intense macros, etc. - only to end up…

I was in the basement yesterday and came across the K1000 my dad gave me for my 18th birthday. I remember vividly how cool I thought it was because the reticle was ground glass instead of a split-circle like his. So funny that these modern digital cameras are so “retrofied.” I also remember when they stopped making…

Isn’t everyone’s?

Same. It never even occurred to me until just now to even wonder where in FF/S it was from.

Papal infallibility†