Maybe the vaccine conspiracy stories will finally die down...
Winter has been world's warmest on record
I know scientists like to collect and publish data (boy, do I!), but anyone who lived through this winter is just going to say, "Duh." I have a distinct memory of buying a short-sleeved, flimsy shirt-dress at H&M over winter break and wearing it MLK weekend when my mom and sister came to visit. Two days later, real winter started, but it took until the middle of January (and thankfully, now, by mid-March, spring is trying to kick in!). The first part of this week was gorgeous, but it started raining yesterday, has continued all night, and as the temperature keeps dropping, they're now calling for snow tonight. Ridiculous!
Gay fetuses possible, Mohler says
This one is a doozy. The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville wrote a blog entry in which he conceded that homosexuality has a biological, not voluntary basis, which is a good thing to hear from the evangelical side. But he goes on to say if a test to determine homosexuality prenatally is ever developed, he would support treatments to reverse a fetus's sexuality in the womb. On the plus side, he specifically says gay fetuses should not be aborted for being gay. Of interest are the statements by Paul Simmons, the medical school medical ethics lecturer. He taught a lot of our medical ethics lectures this fall, and was a very interesting speaker. I think my ethics course was one of the most interesting courses I've ever taken.
Beer madness: Victory lager falls to Budweiser
The Washington Post is running a 32-contestant beer tournament with lagers available in the Metro area. Both Yuengling and Victory fell in the first round -- Yuengling to Shiner Bock, which I've never heard of but sounds pretty good from the description; and Victory to Budweiser. Now that's blasphemy in my social circles!
The C-J's new strip? It's you-picked 'Pearls'
In belated news, the Louisville paper decided to start carrying the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" (my favorite!) after conducting an eight-week online poll. For eight weeks, I voted for Pearls daily from my own computer, and from others when I had the chance-slash-remembered to. It paid off, and I couldn't be happier, although ironically, we've canceled our newspaper subscription since then. The darn thing is just too expensive, and I read Pearls online anyway. I wanted to see the strip expand, though. And in commemoration, here is a recent spate of Pearls strips dealing with the ever-hot topic of cloning.
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I put my beer comment in the next part, but I'll repeat it:
Where is Stella Artois? Yuengling and Victory first-round losers? What kind of heresy is wrought here?
Sometimes Pearls before Swine escapes me, but then I'm still mourning the end of Calvin and Hobbes.
If you read the rules and the transcript of the chat with the beer expert guy, they say they selected American lagers of moderate alcohol content that were relatively easy to obtain in the DC area. Since Stella is Belgian, I guess it's out. The other very obvious flaw is that the first-round matchups were randomly selected. We should re-do this experiment ourselves!
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