Neurotrash

Scientists find a part of the brain that trusts anything called "neuroscience."

Thanx to andrewducker

The Rumpelstiltskin Principle*

On the importance of having a named disease
*Thank you, E. Fuller Torrey

Thanx to andrewducker

One of these is not like the others

The Smurfette Principle

Thanx to andrewducker

The bad old days

More than 50 years ago, when I was at Swarthmore, a fellow student committed suicide. I learned about it when I was in the hospital for a minor infection and saw in the newspaper that a decapitated female body had been found on the railroad tracks. I worried that it was one of my friends (a number seemed capable of it) and felt guilt-laden relief the next day when I learned it was someone who was only a name and a face to me.

The Alumni Bulletin now informs me that everyone's first guess was right: A friend of hers tells us that the case was a powerful argument for legalized abortion. She adds that the Dean of Women (whom I had thought of as a minion of the repressive establishment) had been helpful in similar cases. Good for her.

Truncation error of the week

What TV Guide called Larry Wilmore's show

That may beat the online Sports Illustrated's "Parents claim coach jerked off their son *click on link* 's helmet and hit him with it."

Cut down in his prime at 98.

RIP Art Widner. Great fan, great guy.