Nuts & Mutton

Not the one between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, but between Rowling and a purely fictional character. Seems kinda weird to me.

Apparently we’ve been fooling ourselves all this time in thinking that 8 hours of sleep a night is all we need.

“Scientists have been trying to determine why people need sleep for more than 100 years. They have not learned much more than what every new parent quickly finds out: sleep loss makes you more reckless, more emotionally fragile, less able to concentrate and almost certainly more vulnerable to infection. They know, too, that some people get by on as few as three hours a night, even less, and that there are hearty souls who have stayed up for more than week without significant health problems.”

Who knew?

How refreshing ~ a public figure who (a) doesn’t give a toss about looking like an unmade bed and (b) just says what’s on her mind. And then, there’s James Watson. Different story altogether.

How can this be a surprise? The evidence that we’re destroying the earth and its atmosphere keeps piling up, despite the best efforts of naysayers who insist it’s all part of a natural cycle.

You have nothing to lose but your panties! I wonder if Laura Bush has sent any yet?

Will the American media ever tire of offering this bloody woman a bully pulpit for the loathsome ideas she peddles? I’m quite sure, if she were not a leggy blonde, she would be reduced to polluting the airwaves by radio, like her porcine friend, Rush Limbaugh.

Interesting take on the whole atheist versus theist debate currently raging among the literati. I like his description of Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennet, and Harris as The Four Horsemen.