"Tick bites can cause all sorts of nasty afflictions. And if you're bitten by a Lone Star tick, here's one more to add to the list: a red meat allergy."
"Earlier that day, a customer at the Fishers, Indiana, store sat down on the couch to test it out, CNN affiliate WTTV reported… When he got up to keep shopping, he didn't realize his gun had fallen out of his pants… Later, a group of kids sat down on the sofa and found the gun, Fishers police told WTTV. One of them pulled the trigger and fired a single shot." You know how the NRA keeps saying it's just a few bad actors, well it seems there's a hellofalota bad actors out there.
"The medicinal acknowledgment of CBD should come as good news to marijuana startups eyeing the compound for consumer and medical consumption. Cannabis-derived CBD products are available where recreational marijuana is sold, though CBD derived from industrial hemp faces fewer regulations and is even stocked by some grocery stores."
"Scientists have long found that flight attendants get more breast cancer and melanoma. The new study, published Monday in the journal Environmental Health, saw the same trend and detected a higher prevalence of every other cancer the researchers examined: Non-melanoma skin cancer, uterine, gastrointestinal, cervical and thyroid cancers were all seen at a higher rate in flight attendants." Fuck cancer. And then there's this, "Flight attendants are often exposed to possible or probable carcinogens like pesticides, fire retardants, jet fuel and other chemicals more frequently than the general population. They are also exposed to higher levels of cosmic ionizing radiation; the World Health Organization says this is a cancer risk." It's that last one. As a person who works with radiation, those other things may also contribute, but it's mostly that last one. Living on Earth we're exposed to radiation from many sources (although medical radiation exposure has increased the most over time). You get about 300mREMs a year just living on this planet. One cross continent high-altitude flight is equal to about an extra week's worth of exposure, depending on solar activity (there have been severe spikes of radiation reordered on high-altitude flights). So let's say that's 7mREMs per flight. Let's say you have 2 flights 4 day a week, that's almost 3REM a year. As a radiation worker, if I get 5REM in a year, that can be the end of my career (at 5REM in a year, your chance of cancer increases to a point that it's identifiable as being out of the normal range for your population group), although there are also age considerations (having started later in my career, it's unlikely I'll ever reach the max allowable unless there is a sentinel-level radiation event).
"The fact is, grifters exist on both sides of the aisle, and right now is a really good time to get rich and famous off of liberal fear." Yes, this. Grifters look for the opportunity and will enter any space they think there's a profit to be made. (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
Apropos of nothing, buy my shirts.
If I can't make fun of myself, who can I make fun of?
"'If you think we're rallying now you ain't seen nothing yet,' Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif, told supporters at a rally in Los Angeles over the weekend, 'If you see anybody from that (Trump) Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.' A video of her remarks was posted on Twitter on Sunday."
"The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the president's travel ban by a 5-4 ruling." Elections matter, and it's not just about abortion rights.
Nobody read the actual bill. "(The Republican's) recent tax-code rewrite requires churches, hospitals, colleges, orchestras and other historically tax-exempt organizations to begin paying a 21 percent tax on some types of fringe benefits they provide their employees… Many organizations are stunned to learn of the tax — part of a broader Republican effort to strip the code of tax breaks for employee benefits like parking and meals — and say it will be a significant financial and administrative burden." (Grokked from Dan)
"Despite pressure from President Trump for the U.S. to arrest and prosecute anyone caught crossing the border illegally, Customs and Border Protection says its agents will temporarily suspend the practice of detaining adults who arrive with children — something that had been a tenet of Trump's 'zero-tolerance' policy." I would like to say that it's because their hearts had grown three-sizes since then, but mostly it's because we've run out of places to keep them. Also, we need about 3 times the number of administrative judges (note, they are not Judicial Branch employees, but DoJ employees) to adjudicate all of the cases we already had in the system, let alone this increased workload. Whispers, just wait until we see the bill for all this.
"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he will not put a timeline on negotiations for North Korea’s denuclearization, contradicting a senior defense official who said Washington would soon present a timeline to North Korea with 'specific asks.'" Anybody who has ever had to deal with an asshole boss knows exactly what's going on here. Boss says, "I want it ASAP," as the people tasked with doing the hard work try and tell them that it's not physically possible in the universe we occupy.
"In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said that Texas' legislative and congressional maps are not a racial gerrymander and that all districts are OK, except for one, which it determined is a racial gerrymander — House District 90." Oddly (not oddly) that's a district held by a democrat.
"Former radio host Randy Credico — who denies serving as that link but says he has served as a go-between at other times to WikiLeaks — told NPR that a prosecutor working for Mueller had asked him for a voluntary meeting… Credico said he declined. The special counsel's office declined to comment." So much for the "cooperating because we have nothing to hide" stance.
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