Another Goodbye

What are we to do now? Could someone tell me, please.

Could Have Been Longer

It's pretty cool Google hasn't blown up this site, despite my recent lack of activity, most of which is attributable to poor health, alcohol and general sloth. On a more upbeat note, congrats to Barry...but I really love Elizabeth Warren being In and Joe Leiberliar being OUT. Hope springs eternal in an idiots breast. How does Hillary's blood clot rate more negative reporting than all the GOP sexcapades of the last 4 years? How 'bout those Redskins?

The God Squad, or Maybe Not

Dan Amira highlights The Almighty's seeming lack of support for a few of his GOP minions in The New York Magazine:

Every Candidate Endorsed by God Has Now Lost to Mitt Romney

 The end — sorry, um, suspension — of Rick Santorum's presidential campaign is a major milestone in the primary race, clearing the way, as it does, for Mitt Romney to cruise here on out to the nomination essentially unchallenged. But Santorum's withdrawal is also a major milestone for God, the beloved all-powerful deity whose personal endorsement somehow failed to secure the nomination for any of the numerous Republicans — Santorum, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry — whom he reportedly encouraged to run for president. It is unclear at this point whether God will even bother to offer anyone his apparently useless endorsement in the general election.

(ht) Taegan Goddard

On Cherry Blossoms and Rubies

Just waiting the arrival of the Rubies...

On Saving Time and Daylight

We can thank the mischievous mind of Ben Franklin for the theory of DST. 



We can thank the DPE for up to the minute culinary advice.

We can thank Winchester, VA for Rick Santorum.

The Guy Next Door

Does anyone think the good folks of New Hampshire will go for a Texan, a Georgian, or a feller from Utah over a guy from Michigan the  state next door?

January 02, 2012

From Taegan Goddard:

Romney Solidifies New Hampshire Lead

The latest Suffolk tracking poll in New Hampshire shows Mitt Romney leading with 43%, followed by Ron Paul at 17%, Jon Huntsman at 9% and Newt Gingrich at 8%.

Key finding: "Romney is not only widening his margin in New Hampshire, his supporters are now the least likely to change their minds between now and next Tuesday."



King Snakes are ophiophagous.

Are We High Yet?

Sometimes I just don't know what to say...

Painkiller 10 times stronger than Vicodin worries addiction experts

(It Should) 

(CBS/AP) As pharmaceutical companies are approaching the final stages of development for a new type of painkiller said to be 10 times stronger than Vicodin, addiction experts worry a new wave of abuse may soon follow...

Four companies have begun patient testing on the pills which contain a pure version of the highly addictive painkiller hydrocodone...

"It's like the wild west," said Peter Jackson, co-founder of Advocates for the Reform of Prescription Opioids. "The whole supply-side system is set up to perpetuate this massive unloading of opioid narcotics on the American public."

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Opiates block pain but also unleash intense feelings of well-being and can create physical dependence. Withdrawal symptoms can be intense, causing cramps, diarrhea, muddled thinking, nausea and vomiting. After a while, opiates stop working, forcing users to take stronger doses.

"You've got a person on your product for life, and a doctor's got a patient who's never going to miss an appointment, because if they did and they didn't get their prescription, they would feel very sick," said Andrew Kolodny, president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing. "It's a terrific business model, and that's what these companies want to get in on."

The U.S. consumes 99 percent of the world's hydrocodone and 83 percent of its oxycodone, according to a 2008 study by the International Narcotics Control Board.   [Emphasis mine].