This week’s medical news comes with a heaping side order of mixed messages. Tanning is bad! (But you already knew …
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The Audacity of Doing Your Job: Lindsey Graham Steps Up For the EPA
I don’t know about you, but when elderly lesbian doppelganger slash Republican Lindsey Graham is one of the few Se…
Good News for Women Everywhere
In the West, the advent of motherhood is usually cause for a flurry of showers, brunches, shopping trips, parenting clas…
This Week in Trying Your Very Best with Oil Spill Cleanups
It’s been more than a month since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig keeled over and started introducing massive und…
Things That Will Probably Kill You, Vol. 2
“The beauty of quitting is, now that I’ve quit, I can have one, ’cause I’ve quit.” –…
How’s That Oil Cleanup Coming Along?
Not that great, according to everyone. While one of the three holes in the Deepwater Horizon has been plugged, the rate …
Things That Will Probably Kill You, Vol. 1
Blame Thomas Edison (or Heinrich Göbel if you must split hairs). Ever since the invention of the lightbulb, humans have…
Mind the (Technology) Gap
Let’s be honest: By the year 2010 I think most of us were hoping that when it came to public transportation, any t…