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When I saw the headline I felt my heart leap.

If you tune in to the UK charts this weekend, you might be a bit surprised at the ten (or more!) Arctic Monkeys tracks in there. Likewise, sometime around the start of June, you might be even more surprised to find that the entire top ten consists of the Beatles.

A study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 94% of doctors take some sort of bribe from pharmaceutical companies. Many doctors argue that these considerations are harmless and that the voluntary controls currently in place suffice.

"...you motherfucking WHORE!" I was really warmed up now, lobbing pitches of pure venom and hatred over the phone with increasing vigor, hitting my target more and more as I ramped up into a truly epic rant. Standing in the bathroom, I could hear people milling around outside as my voice increased in volume, ringing back at me from the ceramic, reflecting the blackness swirling around the depths of my vision...

According to the K5 troll trolltracker thing--which IS monitoring us btw--we currently suck. Since around early 2004, the K5 Kabal's statistics show, the site's front page content, diary crapflooding, and overall user activity has been dropping ridiculously fast. In other words, K5 is dying, or at least in the worst slump ever according to our ship's scientist, who believe we're traveling at warp speed straight toward oblivion. I, Ensign N0574 believe there are Four Stern Measures which can be implemented to stage a serious khey5 comeback that will keep us from getting sucked into that bigass black hole of oblivion we've been getting readings for.Legally binding pole inside.

The most important event in human history so far just occurred. The obsession of all of human civilization has just been fixed for the next few centuries. Assuming mankind doesn't off himself, and assuming a natural catastrophe doesn't wipe mankind out, our insurance policy is close at hand. ...If by close at hand you mean 20 light years, and a couple of centuries worth of technological innovation, away.

The first thing you need to know about the Mini-14 is that you don't know anything if you trust the wikipedia entry. To understand the Mini-14, it is important to also understand the history of the Ruger company. Sit down, grab your Ruger, and get ready for the history of the weapon, the men and the company.

There is about a one in three chance that you are seriously ill and don't even know it. It's not a disease caused by a pathogen but a chronic long-term poisoning that starts with your pancreas and nervous system. In the first decade or so you aren't even aware that you are ill, but your nervous, endocrine, and circulatory systems are decaying. Eventually random symptoms start to appear, the kind of things we tend to blow off as "just getting old."

The ongoing high profile arrests for possession, distribution, and manufacture of child pornography in the US and Britain raise a number of troubling issues. It's a object lesson in prosecutorial misconduct, political grandstanding, sensationalist press coverage, incompetent experts, and a politicized justice system. Meanwhile, based on the press and even blogs (where independent, non-mainstream thought is supposed to be found), the public is seemingly made of sheep with less capability for independent action than Planaria. I'm sorry to those Platyhelminthes lovers; that is not an intentional slam on those beloved biology lab creatures.

I'm old. I'd be grey if I weren't bald.