Friday, April 22, 2005
All the News I Figure You Should Read
Next weekend, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy opens in a theater near you. If you don't know why I am excited by this possibility, I'm have actual pity for you. Read this memory of the book's author in preparation for what will hopefully be the funniest movie in a very long time.
A bad time to use a gun is in retribution for a bad haircut, obvioulsy a really bad haircut. But a worse time is to rob a gun store full of heavily armed people. Doohh...
A city commission candidate was criticized for breast-feeding her daughter during a public meeting, so 16 other mothers turned up and nursed their children at another gathering as a show of support. Thank God Barbara Boxer is too old.
Here is a new reason not to live near a sewage treatment plant.
This is not news, it is just sad.
A bad time to use a gun is in retribution for a bad haircut, obvioulsy a really bad haircut. But a worse time is to rob a gun store full of heavily armed people. Doohh...
A city commission candidate was criticized for breast-feeding her daughter during a public meeting, so 16 other mothers turned up and nursed their children at another gathering as a show of support. Thank God Barbara Boxer is too old.
Here is a new reason not to live near a sewage treatment plant.
Mice forced to breathe hydrogen sulfide -- known best for its rotten egg smell -- go into a kind of suspended animation...Take it from the chemist -- that is NOT "rotten eggs."
This is not news, it is just sad.
But does marital therapy work? Not nearly as well as it should, researchers say. Two years after ending counseling, studies find, 25 percent of couples are worse off than they were when they started, and after four years, up to 38 percent are divorced.Probably better to work it out for yourselves.
