How very timely.
Stephen Heller update
No good turn goes unpunished…
Our favorite whistleblower, the actor/office temp now facing three trumped-up felony charges for trying to protect the integrity of California elections, apparently got fired when his new employers decided they didn’t want the hassle of having someone who risked everything to protect their voting rights (along with everyone else’s) around the office.
So, dude needs a gig.
Anybody out there need a reliable office temp who is extremely motivated and promises to work his buns off? There really won’t be any trouble in hiring the guy. Unless your company is in the business of screwing with the fundamental basics of democracy. Then there might be a problem. But otherwise… he’ll bring donuts, stay late, smile at people, and get his stuff done on time.
Stephen Heller update
No good turn goes unpunished…
Our favorite whistleblower, the actor/office temp now facing three trumped-up felony charges for trying to protect the integrity of California elections, apparently got fired when his new employers decided they didn’t want the hassle of having someone who risked everything to protect their voting rights (along with everyone else’s) around the office.
So, dude needs a gig.
Anybody out there need a reliable office temp who is extremely motivated and promises to work his buns off? There really won’t be any trouble in hiring the guy. Unless your company is in the business of screwing with the fundamental basics of democracy. Then there might be a problem. But otherwise… he’ll bring donuts, stay late, smile at people, and get his stuff done on time.
Largest study ever: prayer from strangers useless after all
$2.5 million study at six hospitals, largest ever, 1800 patients involved:
The largest study yet on the therapeutic power of prayer by strangers
has found that it provided no benefit to the recovery of patients who
had undergone cardiac bypass surgery.In an unexpected twist, patients who knew prayers were being said for
them had more complications after surgery than those who did not know,
researchers reported Thursday.The complications were minor, and doctors surmised that they could have
been caused by the increased stress on patients worried that their
conditions were so bad they needed prayers.
Hard as it may be to get over the pleasurable egotism of believing otherwise, apparently the gods do not actually give us all emergency red phones.
This news comes on the same day the 9/11 tapes are coming out.
This is, of course, a complete coincidence.
Bush really ought to choose his words more carefully
Chimpus Maximus, at today’s press conference with the PMs of Mexico and Canada:
[W]e are a nation of laws and, therefore, must enforce our laws.
Nice to hear he thinks so.
Now let’s talk a little about the FISA statutes…