Tyrion Style FTW!
Finally my nose is growing back! Dead skin sloughing appears complete. New skin emerging via secondary intention and EPICALLY GROSS. Looking forward to Tyrion Style FTW!
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Post-Post-Modern Capitalism
Finance is to our stagnant societies what the space race and the Cold War were to the Eastern Bloc countries of the 1970s and 80s – a huge cost that the state imposes on...
Borne Back Ceaselessly
So there’s a new Gatsby movie, full of crap fast-cut song-and-dance scenes ala Moulin Rouge. I like the way the director, Baz Luhrmann, is so very fakeGatsby when he says stuff like: Luhrmann is...
Who Watches the Watchmen?
We do! More here.
The Romance of Mental Illness
The Fantasy: The Reality:
Oligopoly and Regulatory Capture
This is what oligopoly and regulatory capture looks like:
Shocked, Shocked To Find That Gambling Is Going On In Here
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll abruptly resigned after an Internet cafe company that was her former consulting client was linked to an alleged illegal gambling racket … Operation “Reveal the Deal” uncovered what law...
Texas Bans Shooting Immigrants From Helicopters
Well it’s just not sporting is it? You’ve got to at least give them a fighting chance to run for it. Officials in Texas announced on Thursday that State Troopers would no longer be...
Catatonia, FTW!
Just diagnosed catatonia in a patient who became unresponsive and got intubated, got a CT, then a CT stroke protocol, CT angio chest, MRI, spinal tap, continuous EEG, flagrantly extensive metabolic and infectious workup....
Fancy an Appy?
Fancy an appy? That’ll cost you between $1,529 and $186,955. JAMA By comparison, hip replacement seems like a bargain at only between $10,000 and $125,000. JAMA