Posts tagged: health

Turn in your red meat! Guns are okay, too.

Turn in your dead red meat!

They’ve been rounding up guns in Los Angeles recently, some with bullets included. And people think we just play volleyball on the beach!

From the LA Times:
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department took in a record haul of firearms this year through its Gifts for Guns program, an annual event in Compton that allows people to [...]

Nutty Putty Cave Tragedy at Thanksgiving

John-Jones nutty putty cave

I feel so bad about this guy, John Jones, who died while spelunking in Nutty Putty Cave near Salt Lake City. He and his wife are so beautiful; he was in medical school and she’s expecting their 2nd kid. (Utah, remember.)

More than 50 people tried to help him for over a day.
The 6-foot-tall, 190-pound [...]

Limited Calorie diets make monkeys cranky.

limited-calorie diet cartoon with monkey and smiley-faces

Supernanny says you always have to give a warning before you put someone in the naughty corner.

Thanksgiving is only 3 days away! So this is your warning: be sure to eat enough at dinner so you aren’t tempted to bite the other family or guests.
It’s cruel and inhumane.
This blog at Sephora says that monkeys (and [...]

Insurance companies suck. But you already knew that.

I’m really sad to see the health adjustment plan won’t make it through. I wanted it to be an arrow in the heart of the evil, lying, non-life saving insurance companies. Usually I’m a capitalist, all for anyone who wants to make money, anyhow. Let the strongest one win.
But not with health insurance. It’s like [...]

Giving out vaccines for Halloween.

giving out h1n1 vaccines at Halloween cartoon

Just give me an opening to combine any holiday, with any subject, and I’m there. This week’s  message: vaccine testing is a joke.

I have the numbers to prove it, but I’m super busy today, so it will have to wait.
escience news says just 40% of public is sure they’ll get the vaccine. Top of the [...]

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