Joan Z. Shore: They're Driving Us Crazy (or, A Couple More Reasons Why I Love France) - Politics on The Huffington Post

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Joan Z. Shore: They're Driving Us Crazy (or, A Couple More Reasons Why I Love France) - Politics on The Huffington Post

There are plenty of reasons to object to Voter ID cards. Besides the basic question of constitutionality, there is the huge expense of setting up such a system in every state, and there are real difficulties and hurdles (and expense) for everyone trying to obtain the necessary proof' of citizenship -- even for something as seemingly straighforward as a birth certificate.

And there are even more reasons to object to the plan for new ID driving licenses. The scheme would automatically exclude young people who cannot yet drive; elderly and infirm people who can no longer drive; and people who simply have no need to drive, or don't want to. Will they be forced to pass a driving test anyway? Or simply be denied a valid ID?

Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles - New York Times

Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles - New York Times

The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war. In many of those cases, combat trauma and the stress of deployment — along with alcohol abuse, family discord and other attendant problems — appear to have set the stage for a tragedy that was part destruction, part self-destruction.

Three-quarters of these veterans were still in the military at the time of the killing. More than half the killings involved guns, and the rest were stabbings, beatings, strangulations and bathtub drownings. Twenty-five offenders faced murder, manslaughter or homicide charges for fatal car crashes resulting from drunken, reckless or suicidal driving.

About a third of the victims were spouses, girlfriends, children or other relatives, among them 2-year-old Krisiauna Calaira Lewis, whose 20-year-old father slammed her against a wall when he was recuperating in Texas from a bombing near Falluja that blew off his foot and shook up his brain.

A quarter of the victims were fellow service members, including Specialist Richard Davis of the Army, who was stabbed repeatedly and then set ablaze, his body hidden in the woods by fellow soldiers a day after they all returned from Iraq.

e.Peak (31/10/2005) news: science: Study shows marijuana increases brain cell growth

e.Peak (31/10/2005) news: science: Study shows marijuana increases brain cell growth

Though most drugs inhibit the growth of new brain cells, injections of a synthetic cannibinoid have had the opposite effect in mice in a study performed at the University of Saskatchewan. Research on how drugs affect the brain has been critical to addiction treatment, particularly research on the hippocampus.

Multiverse by Michael Coleman

Multiverse by Michael Coleman

Ok, that’s the basic concept of the multiverse, or as it is sometimes called (notably by Sun-Ra) the OMNIVERSE. Now let’s look at how to define types of alternate universes and the main theories as to why they are as “real” as anything else. Close-by universes presumably share the same fundamental laws of physics, more ‘distant’ ones may have entirely different laws of physics, math, etc. however, recent studies are pointing towards the conclusion that the “laws of physics” actually may change and evolve as our universe expands, so this is a consideration.

Kimberly Brooks: First Person Artist: Chris Roth Takes On Superheroes - Living on The Huffington Post

Kimberly Brooks: First Person Artist: Chris Roth Takes On Superheroes - Living on The Huffington Post

In his piece entitled "Holy Trinity," Jesus flies over a graveyard with Superman and Santa Claus.

Awesome.

One step closer to the zombie holocaust...

Using rabies to deliver drugs directly to the brain - Boing Boing

Houston Bicycle Company

I'm an every day rider.
I've been getting a lot of work done on my bike.
These guys have been great.

Houston Bicycle Company

LAist: Vampira Goes to the Great Beyond

LAist: Vampira Goes to the Great Beyond

Hollywood has lost another legend. Maila Nurmi, who became synonymous with her character, Vampira, passed away in her sleep yesterday at the age of 86.

Cuckolded US man wins damages for 'theft' of wife | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Cuckolded US man wins damages for 'theft' of wife | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Sandra Fitch, too, was not impressed that she had been treated as a piece of property by the courts. "I don't consider myself property," she said. "Not Johnny's, not anyone's. Just my own."

Diana author names Tom Cruise as 'World Number Two in Scientology' | the Daily Mail

Diana author names Tom Cruise as 'World Number Two in Scientology' | the Daily Mail

• Daughter by Katie Holmes "conceived like Rosemary's Baby"

• Nicole Kidman "feared blackmail" over sex tapes made with Scientologists

• Scientologists "planted meadows of flowers for Tom and Nicole to run through"

• Cruise's next mission is to recruit David Beckham

AlterNet: Health and Wellness: Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War

AlterNet: Health and Wellness: Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War

In June, the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health acknowledged "daunting and growing" psychological problems among our troops: Nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of National Guard members are presenting with serious mental health issues. They also reported "fundamental weaknesses" in the U.S. military's approach to psychological health. That report was followed in August by the Army Suicide Event Report (ASER), which reported that 2006 saw the highest rate of military suicides in 26 years. And last month, CBS News reported that, based on its own extensive research, over 6,250 American veterans took their own lives in 2005 alone -- that works out to a little more than 17 suicides every day.

HAARP Hits Moon With Radio Waves

Now they're controlling the weather on the moon...

or

Angels don't play this -

HAARP Hits Moon With Radio Waves

karmic shit still pouring down

someone tried to steal my replacement bike today.
another employee saw them in the back and they took off,
but not before breaking my gear changer on the front...

grr!

New Year's Resolution

So, getting punched in the face on New Year's Eve almost brought me to repent... Well, not repent but change course - quit drinkin' too much too often, stop chasing the wrong women, etc. Then last night I went drinkin' and this morning on the bike ride in I got to hear "devil do" by o Golightly and The Broke-offs

and I finally made my New Year's resolution - I pledge another year of bad behavior - and if it gets me punched in the face, well, at least now I know I can take a punch... Hell, I figure G.W. was a drunk till he was forty and he got to be president. I'm far less ambitious so I got at least a coupla years left, right?