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DOJ Filing More Lawsuits Against Aggressive Antiabortion Protesters -- Hey, have a bit of good news for once!

Ohio Geological Survey in fiscal peril

State legislator seeks to eliminate Ohio's clean-energy requirement

Here’s some disquieting news courtesy of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: The compliance rate for health professionals, including doctors and nurses, washing their hands in American hospitals is only about 40 percent — meaning that, about 60 percent of health professionals in hospitals don’t wash up before coming into contact with patients. -- If you don't see them do it, it's OK to ask them to!

Ancient sea jelly makes tree of life wobble

It Gets Better - Kenyon College's Queer Women's Collective -- My alma mater. It sure does get better! When I started at Kenyon in '91 there were a total of two out people on campus.

11 Kitchen Tools You Don't Really Need

TQ Nation EXCLUSIVE Interview: Buck Angel (since I was talking about him the other day)

Red State By Kevin Smith

(AP) -- Overnight polls following the most recent GOP primary election debate show Khal Drogo taking a clear lead for the first time in the race.

Pulaski is arrogant and annoying and pays for it by being dipped in a shit-ton of old-age makeup. Plus, O'Brien finally gets a name! It's "Unnatural Selection" on the TNG Rewatch.

An episode that is near and dear to my heart -- as I used one of its guest stars in half a dozen novels -- the TNG Rewatch reaches "A Matter of Honor," as the Enterprise gets a Benzite, the Pagh gets Riker, and both ships come down with an icky hull-eating bacteria. Riker survives violence, treachery, being hit on by Klingon women, and the food.

a day late -- happy birthday, Star Trek

The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy -- I grew up in Michigan calling it pop, but my New Yorker best friend my freshman year of college mocked me so mercilessly I still call it soda to this day.

Research: Competitive Games Cause More Aggression Than Violent Games

Orson Scott Card's most recent assholery
More: Revisionist History (in comic form)

Teaching Beekeeping to Children Improves Behavior

Regretting Your Abortion Is Not Grounds For A Lawsuit

Big Cats and Laser Pointers

The million dollar space pen hoax

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Friends of the Cleveland Kennel offers this advice to people who lose their dogs in or near Cleveland

Northeast Ohio gets two more movies and a video game, courtesy of tax credit program

Cleveland RTA's adult fare jumpers could avoid criminal fines, under latest proposal

Bloggers claim Reps. Marcia Fudge, Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich are 'card carrying' Socialists: PolitiFact Ohio -- *snerk*

Drunk Mooses Wreaking Havoc in Sweden

Survivor (on reasons we minimize the importance of abusive behavior toward ourselves)

As a poster boy for the “White Man Explains the World” set more than once in my life, allow me to say the following: Yea, verily. It’s hard to get us to shut up; it’s harder to get us to listen, for values of “listen” other than “waiting for the other person to stop making word noises so I can keep making my very important point.”

What is it that feminists aren’t getting enough of, according to Andrea Tantaros? Dick. Lots and lots of dick.

M6: The Butterfly Cluster

SDSS J102915+172927: A Star That Should Not Exist

FactChecking the GOP Debate

Postal Workers: The Last Union

Date: 2011-09-11 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhonan.livejournal.com
One thing that made me very glad was how well everyone washed their hands when I was in the hospital last year. I mean ridiculously so. Even the orderly washed his hands and used sanitizing gel when he entered my room, right before he emptied the trash and dirty linen hamper. I would have been happy had he just done so as he left.

Date: 2011-09-11 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] musicalchaos.livejournal.com
I wish I could say the same regarding my post-op stay. I don't want to think how many times unwashed hands would've touched me if my parents hadn't been watching and chiming in whenever they didn't see someone wash before coming near. (I was too drugged up and in pain, or just in some state of unconsciousness, to keep track myself.)

Date: 2011-09-11 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
Yeah. Between that and their repeated ignorance about your latex allergy, there's really nothing I liked about that whole situation.

Date: 2011-09-12 12:52 am (UTC)
firecat: damiel from wings of desire tasting blood on his fingers. text "i has a flavor!" (Default)
From: [personal profile] firecat
Michigan-raised "pop"-sayer here, until this happened in a deli in Connecticut, where I went to college:

"a roast beef sandwich"
"anything else?"
"some pop"
"what?"
"pop"
"what?"
"DIET COKE" (*erases "pop" from my vocabulary*)

Date: 2011-09-12 01:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
*chuckle* Yeah, at least "soda" seems to be relatively universally understood, if not universally used.

Date: 2011-09-12 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
Out of curiosity, where in MI? I was raised in Holly, Davison, and Flint. (the icon is a google maps image of my street and the ponds behind my house in Holly that my brother [livejournal.com profile] jajy1979 made for me)

Date: 2011-09-12 04:01 am (UTC)
firecat: damiel from wings of desire tasting blood on his fingers. text "i has a flavor!" (Default)
From: [personal profile] firecat
Grosse Pointe

Date: 2011-09-12 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jajy1979.livejournal.com
I left pop after moving to the south which had the same problem Firecat has. They don't recognize it as a term. Everything is "Coke" down here and I hate that. So I either ask for the specific, or I ask for a Soda, which they recognize. Pop at this point sounds a bit off to my ears, though I still hear it now and again. Besides, my diction is an amalgamation of Midwest, South, and West Coast.

Date: 2011-09-12 02:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
Pop at this point sounds a bit off to my ears, though I still hear it now and again.

*nod* Same here.

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