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Amazing how cute kitties can explain everything…even the BP oil spill

Somehow, this doesn’t seem all that far from the truth, except that kitties are cute. The last line, however, is, sadly, all too prescient-sounding. In fact, I’m not sure that it’s even funny because the truth hurts. I guess cute kitties make it easier to take. I wonder if they ever remade A Few Good […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Entertainment/culture Humor Medicine Music

The Refusers: Proving Orac’s corollary to Poe’s Law

Over the last week or so, I’ve been a bit–shall we say?–dismissive of claims by anti-vaccinationists when they insist that, really, truly, honestly, they aren’t “anti-vaccine,” usually with a wounded, indignant, self-righteous tone. Either that, or they make like the Black Knight in Monty Python and The Holy Grail by demanding the surrender of the […]

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Michael Jackson is clearly rolling over in his grave

Apparently someone at a British hospital thought that this was a good idea. I beg to differ. Words fail me. It’s rare, I know, but occasionally it does happen.

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Entertainment/culture Medicine Music Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Science is the poetry of reality…

…and I can’t argue with Symphony of Science:

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Moral of the story: Don’t steal chickens (I guess)

While I’m working today, enjoy some bizarre cartoon awesomeness from Max Fleischer, courtesy of Boing-Boing: Truly amazing. And 80 years old, too, with a wicked jazz soundtrack. The Fleischer brothers rule.