According to ItHappenedtoAlexa, Bill O'Reilly will be speaking at a luncheon for their foundation. Their foundation is to honour the courage that their daughter showed when encountered with the legal system's ugly handling of rape victims.

Wait, wasn't there something about Bill O'Reilly and a rape victim a while back? Oh, yea. Bill knows why ( Read more... )

I am breaking my pretty much never post streak. But, I think everyone should know about this story.
A clinic nurse first removed her intrauterine birth-control device without permission, says the patient in a federal action, then told her that "having the IUD come out was a good thing," because "I personally do not like IUDs. I feel they are a ( Read more... )

... again ( Read more... )

Well, I need things in that special, lap of comfort way. I certainly won't die without this stuff. I'd like, or perhaps, I would be pleased with, maybe that's a nicer way to put it. Oh, and I'd like advice or opinions ( Read more... )

yea. I guess I am a little. Quiz taken after seeing it on jimheem


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Lovely, isn't it? One of the few times my husband isn't working at home (he had a meeting) and we get a tornado. Of course, it was while it was dumping buckets of rain, and I was trying to figure out how to keep the rain out of my big ass lab UPSes, as well as just plain out of the server labs (never again will I have an office on the top floor ( Read more... )

From the headline on this headline from CNN.
Novel software drives '$100 laptop'

Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs.

Yea. I was ( Read more... )

As I was driving in to work, the sky just looked really weird. Looked like the sun was setting to the east, and nightfall was coming up from the west. Yes, I know, it was clouds, not some rotation switch. Then later, I read this, which confirms my "weird weather day" diagnosis.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ( Read more... )

While I normally would not mind so much, number one -they are sending me to bloody Riverhead. Middle of nowhere, nearly an hour away. There is a perfectly lovely supreme court up the block -might I just pop in there, instead? Number two -I have to be there at 09.30. Not a morning person. Soooooo not a morning person. Number three -I need to ( Read more... )

Please, please, please start using those silly little grammatical niceties, such as proper capitalisation of letters, punctuation marks, understanding homophones. In several communities today, I had to stop reading the post, because I was getting a headache trying to figure out what was being said. You are not cool for eschewing these things. ( Read more... )