Some scientist in Japan went out a few nights ago and got absolutely hammered. What else, besides karaoke, could possible ensue? That’s right, hilarity! Deadly, deadly hilarity:
Police have launched a frantic search for three bottles of potentially deadly poison lost after a Shimonoseki Mitsui Chemicals official who had been carrying them went […]

One time I was running this site about science, and we had just installed Google Adsense, and no matter which article page you landed on, the only ad was a picture ad for Octobong. No shit.
This is better:

That’s a screen capture of an MSNBC article, all about how the evil Pharma companies are out to […]

Besides yesterday, when we got whiners as WELL as spam, mostly in our comments section we just get… spam. But perhaps we shouldn’t always have such an itchy bulk-delete trigger finger. Sometimes there are diamonds in that roughage. Like, oh, THIS.
I’m almost tempted to plunk down my hard-earned rubles simply for the name alone, […]

Want proof Barry Bonds is juicing? Shit, I just found his rookie card! Bailiff, show this man to his cell!

Ever since Bush adjusted the Medicare prescription drug program this past January, seniors have complained about eligibility issues, a confusing enrollment process, computer glitches, and high cost. Health and Human Services HCIC Mike Leavitt insists the program is improving. I, for one, remain skeptical. As a matter of fact, I’d say the situation is […]

Only a baked-off-his-ass undergrad would think this is meaningful research. “Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was 83 per cent happy, 9 per cent disgusted, 6 per cent fearful and 2 per cent angry”? Find a new dealer, idiots.
Software decodes Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile | NewSci

Here we are, folks. The Monday after Thanksgiving, and we’re all sluggish. We’re also reinforced in our contempt of family and in-laws, newly divorce-pending and/or disowned, and a little more wanted by the local authorities–wait, that’s just me. Sorry Aunt Cathy, you know what that box wine does to me. Raaaarrrr.
And, I might add, we’re […]

From an otherwise well-sourced NYTimes piece about the loonifying of America by hack shrinks and their Big Pharma patrons:
Dr. Stuart Kirk, a professor of social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has been critical of the manual, gives examples of what could, under the current diagnostic guidelines, qualify as a substance […]

The latest from the No Doy Dept. over at the University of Heidelberg: Given the same amount of heavy drinking, the ladies get stupid much faster than men.
Quoth the Beeb: “Scientists have suspected for some time that men might be more resilient to booze than women. The German research gives visible evidence of this.”
“Suspected”? […]