as are long sleeved shirts, and jewelry.

They aren't aware that germs hang on these things?

No long sleeves, no watches, so the doctors in Britain won't know they're late to their "appointments", as we call them in the colonies.

Bonus.

Part of an effort to curb Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a tough little effin bacteria that shows resistance to commonly used antibiotics.

New staph infections. Not used to the normal drugs.

Ok, wear bow ties, which is what you all like anyway (I can tie one, by the way, can anybody else?), wash your hands, and don't drag your Black Watch tie over a supperating sore. Because that's nasty and you should know better.

But new pathogens are going to require something more aggressive than washing your hands.

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A nice tasty box of chocolate covered maggots. Vid after the fold more...

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Well, now Michael's in jail and Linc has to bust him out.

This show has jumped the shark at least five times already but somehow it manages to jump back every now and again.

Worse Than Oz: So, to up the ante, the postulated this hellish Panamanian prison where the prisoners were actually in control and the guards stayed back to man the perimeter and toss in food. Kind of like Escape From New York, except without all the glamor.

Man, this is a sick place. The first season was big on shivings, toe severings, and of course forcible sodomy, but now they're forcing the fish to clean out Cthulhu's toilet.

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"What did I do?" he wants to know. It's a fair question.

Boy, that security team sure was in a wicked hurry to lay hands on someone disrespecting a Democrat, weren't they?

Meanwhile protesters are allowed to menace and charge conservative speakers at will.

In fairness, he seems to have hogged the mic for a while.

The guy carries on like a bitch, and I sure hope he's not one of ours (he seems to be Truther-ish), but still, the alacrity with which campus security jumps to protect a Democrats' dignity is surprising. Couldn't they have just turned off the mic and ignored him?

Don't expect to see this make the news. Only Republicans are complicit in the Ill Winds Chilling Dissent.

[Update2 - PA]
JackStraw found the Kos diary entry I suspected would appear. There's an online poll at that diary entry too. 419 votes as of this update, 83% saying the cops were out of line and in need of a tune up more than the tased dude was. I voted for the cops being over the line too. The diarist claims to have known this guy living a few doors down from him in a dorm and that he was a nut about the 04' election. But being a nut and spouting off inconvenient questions doesn't strike me as tase worthy. The crowd in general was not getting ugly to the point where they were hollering at the guy to sit down and shut up in ernest - this is telling. Damn, I hate it when I have to align with a Kos poster...

The Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Orlando Sentinel, Fox News, and Gainesville Sun are reporting. This dude's fortune cookie says "you are about to come into a lot of money".

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It sounds like an urban legend - watch the video and money goes to a charity - but it's not. Every time someone watches this video, $2 will be donated to the fight against ALS.

The video, set to Five for Fighting's "100 Years," explains the disease, puts a human face on those who suffer from it and talks about the potential cures being researched.

It's worth a click. (H/t: Barnett)

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I like Jack Hannah. He seems like a nice guy. I want to make it clear that I wish him well because I'm about to say something mean: Jack Hannah may be the most incompetent person in the history of history.

Letterman loves Jack Hannah, because he's such amazing entertainment... by accident. He seems to have absolutely no idea what the hell he's doing attempting to handle animals. He is perplexed by the most basic questions, like "Will that tiger you just brought out maybe attempt to eat that giant rabbit you also have bouncing around on my desk?" I'm not sure he could define "herbivore" if you gave him three guesses.

He's the animal-expert equivalent to (as some say) NASCAR: A lot of people are just watching for the inevitable disaster.

So this comes as little surprise. He's like Steve Irwin, except without all the abundance of caution:

Animal expert Jack Hanna and an 11-month-old flamingo became trapped while trying to squeeze through an airport security turnstile. It took firefighters to finally get the flamingo out.

Hanna, the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and a frequent guest on nationally televised talk shows, was returning from a zoo fundraiser with a mongoose, a small leopard and the flamingo. Three other people were with them.

The entourage arrived at the Ohio State University Airport just after midnight Sunday to find the terminal closed. The only way to leave the tarmac was through a 10-foot-tall metal turnstile with several horizontal bars -- not the easiest exit to squeeze through when you're traveling with boxed-up animals, Hanna said.

"I never thought about the crate being square and the turnstile being round," he said.

Hanna, 60, pushed the flamingo's 2-foot-by-3-foot compartment into the turnstile, then continued pushing while straddling the crate.

"I was stuck like a worm. My eyes were as big as grapefruits," he said. "I can't describe the feeling in my stomach. I can't move up or down. The bars are on your face."

Hanna said he eventually squirmed free, leaving the flamingo still wedged inside and everyone else trapped on the tarmac. He then walked to a nearby fire station for help. It took three firefighters to hoist the flamingo's crate up and out of the turnstile, he said.

Columbus fire department logs show the firefighters arrived at the airport at 12:30 a.m. for a "flamingo rescue," spokeswoman Kelly McGuire said.

I couldn't find a very good Letterman appearance, but here's some of his typical insouciance for basic safety on display, here involving a poisonous toad and a frightened nine year old boy.

I swear, I saw one panel where he had like ten or twelve animals out at the same time of all different species, some obviously looking to eat other ones, and it just never seemed to occur to him at all to put the cute little marmosets and possums away before bringing out the cougars and cobras. I guess he subscribes to a "Thunderdome" philosophy of zookeeping.

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The "real" (supposedly) video wasn't nearly as sophisticated in this -- go figure! -- but this shows what some technical know-how can accomplish.

Meanwhile, our "intelligence" services continue to debate whether the last tape was real. The one that just had freeze-frames whenever "bin Laden" was talking about anything more recent than the Who Shot JR? episode of Dallas.*

* His theory? The Jews. He's pretty sure Mossad framed Kristin, and also were responsible for putting Victoria Principle into a year-long hypnotic coma.

Question: Now that these guys have proven they've got the mad skillz, could they please start putting out fake videos of bin Laden saying all sorts of ghey things in Arabic?

I'm pushing the ghey angle just because I know it bothers them so much. A vid of bin Laden talking about tossing the salads of Jewish drag-queen vampires would be pretty sweet.

Bullwinkle's Doing These... A fake bin Laden video here.

Man, the possibilities are making me quiver like Larry Craig in the US Men's Olympic Swim team locker-room.

New One: Bullwinkle just put up a keeper.

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Surgeons remove gall bladder via vagina, based on techniques first pioneered in German porn.

Kind of old and I'm surprised Vanderleun, of all people, is surprised by this, but the hot new cosmetic pick-me-up is anal bleaching. Me, I'd go with a striped look. Stripes are slenderizing.

In totally bullshit urban legend news, there's this claim of a bizarre but trendy restaurant in Japan open only to the filthy rich, supposedly in a blood-soaked former S&M basement, where you get to have sex with your meal -- say, a sow -- before it's butchered before your eyes and then served to you.

Philip Roth has already filed suit alleging theft of intellectual property.

Honestly, though, this story is so stupid and lurid it can't be true, even despite my long-standing theory that Japanese are freaky when it comes to sex.

This sounds like a rejected Joe Esterhaus (Basic Instict, Jade, etc.) script.

Thanks to Rob, Michael, and someone who likes to keep a clean rep so I won't mention him.

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I'm a little worried about this story, because I just linked the exact same story, more or less, like six months ago. And yet the article is dated today, and Google News shows another outlet picking up this story eight hours ago.

Not sure if this is just an old story being discovered rather late by the MSM. Maybe they don't have Dave there to say "It's Old!"

So, anyway, even though I think this is a repeat, here you go:

A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.

The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.

Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.

Ogre Gunner offers the analysis: "Pussy."

Well, he got the Silver Key to Heaven. So he has that.

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Larwyn dishes:

I cannot even consider that I am having a drug reaction and hallucinating, I've only had 2 Ibuprophen at 200 mgs since 10 pm last night. On MSNBC they just reported ~3:35pm that there is supposedly a CONTRACT HIT OUT ON FEDERLINE! This is via E! and other "entertainment sources.

Tell me there's a FULL MOON.. LAPD denies have an investigation into the attempted HIT!

The guy could use a hit. Or even something that cracks the top 200.

Here's the story.

So, we now know the following:

K-Fed can't get arrested;

but apparently he can get assassinated.

Fortunately for Federline, he entered the Witness Protection Program some years ago. I'm not sure what case he was testifying in, but the DoJ hid him pretty well. They do a solid job, I'll give them that.

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