This week, BBC Radio 4 launched a really excellent six-week series on the history of modern medicine, beginning with the Greeks. Today’s episode was about Andreas Vesalius, the 16th Century Belgian doctor who single-handedly gave birth to modern anatomy (ewwww…bad mental image). He had a definite advantage over his predecessors, in that he got to […]
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Harry Potter Naked!!!!
February 2, 2007 – 7:52 am
Okay, it turns out, I’m not all that comfortable with the topic of Little Boy Penis. I just wanted some of that sweet, sweet Googlebomb action.
Donald Rumsfeld…Statesman, Patriot, Heartthrob
December 17, 2006 – 4:55 pm
So, he’s gone. Okay, I’m just going to come out and say what I know we’re all thinking: I want to have Donald Rumsfeld’s babies. If somebody had to pay the price for this election, why couldn’t it be Nicole Richie? Or that guy in Research with the stupid bow ties? “Oh, Lord. I […]
NBC suffers attack of the Humpty Dumpties
November 28, 2006 – 2:37 pm
One of the reasons the Right and Left can’t talk to each other is that we speak two different languages, and it’s especially difficult to translate between them because both use the same words. Old fuddy-duddies that we are, conservatives use the traditional, restrictive, dictionary definitions. Liberals, on the other hand, view words as imprecise […]
S. Weasel 