Category: dKo journal

Just a bit of a “backgrounder” on a looming Republican political crisis: Even if the Democrats continue to fail to come up with a vision of their own, the key Bush tax cuts have always had built into them a “time-bomb,” which is bound to do heavy damage to the Republicans in congress. It is…

And what if, among a huge proportion of the at-risk population, this new pill made people 23 percent less likely to die from any cause…30 percent less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 49 percent less likely to die from cancer? What if it were devoid of side-effects? And immediately available? One of the…

Dear Mr. Etiquette, Should carrots and celery be eaten with the fingers? –No, the fingers should be eaten separately.

“People who are overweight but not obese have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight, federal researchers are reporting today.” NYT, 4/20/2005 –I think anything below 100% would be a breakthrough.

NYT, 4/11/05 (My italics.) “…the arresting officer recalled, it took four police officers to haul him down the steps of the New York Public Library and across Fifth Avenue. ‘We picked him up and we carried him while he squirmed and screamed,’ the officer, Matthew Wohl, testified in December. ‘I had one of his legs…

Based on results of the latest brain-imaging technologies, it turns out the right side of the brain does not control the left side of the body and vice versa. It only seems that way because, inside the brain-case within the scull, the brain is actually facing backwards! (No fool, that brain.)