This one takes a personal twist, as a couple of weeks ago I was stricken with a case of campylobacteriosis, caused by Campylobacter jejuni. This video explains what the bacteria is, what it does (oh god it makes you sick) and how to avoid getting it into your system:
I don’t think I’ve got Guillain-Barré Syndrome yet…
Robert Lancaster runs a website called Stop Sylvia Browne. Sylvia Browne is a “psychic” who occasionally has a show in Las Vegas. On June 22, Lancaster went to see her show. Here’s an example of just how psychic Browne is:
The last woman who joined our “group” asked Sylvia, after telling her that her mom had died two days ago, if she had any message from her mom for her. Sylvia said that mom “liked the service.”
The woman recalled this for us, and said “We haven’t even had the service yet - she died two days ago.”
You’d think that a psychic would be able to “see” that a remembrance service hasn’t happened yet.
Sylvia Browne — not a psychic. She’s just a cold reader out to take money from gullible people.
This week’s list of baby names was quite a bit shorter than average, but the Bad Baby Names were distilled down into whiskey-level awesomeness. Let’s get to it!
We start off gently with Damin. Not a particularly Bad Baby Name, but we have to start off lightly to get us in the spirit of things. This is why I’m introducing Tayden early as well. See, they’re bad, but not that bad.
Not compared to, say, Shelcey-Lyn or KaianaLee. Now we’re getting somewhere! We’re continued on our merry little path with Chassee (perhaps Chasser is her brother?) and Shaylie.
Can someone tell me how to pronounce either Mikeilah or Alajshae? Mike-eye-lah? Mik-aye-lah? Al-aj-shay? Stoo-pid?
And then we get into our Biblical Bad Baby Names. Passion isn’t particularly bad, but Exodus is. Why would you name your son Exodus?
To top things off we have Lizandro, which sounds like someone out of a bodice ripper. “Lizandro stood before her, his proud head erect, his leonine mane thrown into relief by the flares flanking the large doors. For one suspended moment, they stared at each other, love, hope, and remembered pain reflected over and over between them.”
George Carlin died of heart failure. One of the great comics, he railed against nearly everything, including this favourite segment on religion:
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of every day, and the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do! And if you do any of these ten things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever until the end of time. But he loves you!
The National Post is running a live blog for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. The second paragraph reads:
You can read about some of the top prospects here and see what some of the Canadian teams are planning for the draft weekend here.
You’d think that second link would lead to a story about Canada’s NHL teams, right? Maybe a paragraph or two dedicated to each team?
Oh no, not from the Toronto-based National Post. It’s an entire article about the Toronto Maple Leafs.
This is why Canadians hate Toronto.
