• Hot Off The Presses

    Virginia Tech: Big Monster On Campus

    Gunmans Writings Were Disturbing | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited Lots of people knew Cho. Lots of people thought he was a little weird. Some people called him "the question mark guy" because on the first day of an English lit class, he put a question mark next to his name on an introductory signup sheet for class members. He could not put a name to himself. There were opportunities to reach him that were missed, but who could have known? Cho's aspect was impenetrable; if you called out a greeting to him, he would not reply or respond. Dorm…

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things

    Resurrection Departs, and My Priest Gets Quoted

    Daily Herald | DuPage County Within the next few months, Resurrection members will move to a rented building elsewhere in West Chicago. The church has not decided if it will join a group of Anglican parishes based in Africa and Asia that are forming their own organization, Koch said. A longtime member of the NAACP and a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Koch rejects the view that his church’s stance is bigoted. “If I had a family come to my church that were polygamist, we would love them, we would be kind, but we wouldn’t approve. That…

  • Radio

    Living on Earth: New Studies Link Asthma, Prostate Cancer to Toxic Chemicals

    Living on Earth: New Studies Link Asthma, Prostate Cancer to Toxic Chemicals CURWOOD: Dr. Myers I know the study didn’t look at this at all but the asthma epidemic is really big in cities and really big among poor people. What questions would you want to ask as a researcher to link that prevalence of disease in those populations to what is being found in this research? MYERS: That’s a great question, Steve and all the science isn’t in on the answer yet. But there are a couple of clues that we can take from this. One is that the…

  • Episcopal - Hot Off The Presses

    Advance: 19 former Grace and St Stephen’s Vestry Members

    Pastor must answer important questions Question: What is thy duty toward thy neighbor? Answer: My duty toward my Neighbor is . . . to do to all men as I would they should do unto me: . . . To be true and just in all my dealings: . . . To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering: . . . Not to desire other men’s goods; But to learn and labor truly to get my own living. — The Book of Common Prayer 1928. We are 19 former vestry…

  • Blogs Wot I Read

    Fanatical Apathy · Cancer n’ Me/Blogula Rasa – The Nasal Drip Post

    Fanatical Apathy · Cancer n’ Me Adam Felber (ace WWDTM panelist) had a less than positive experience with the totally disorganized and indifferent crap that is the American health care system the other day. He’s happy to say that he has not-cancer! Hurray! And he had pretty much diagnosed himself correctly via WebMD, but that didn’t stop him from thinking that The Cancer had invaded his lymph nodes, whatever those are. As it happens, I also had a less-than-satisfactory experience with my health care provider Tuesday, and I had also pretty much diagnosed myself via Google and various diagnosed myself…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-04-11

    An Office Approach to the Diagnosis of Chronic Cough – December 1998 – American Academy of Family Physicians Got drugs for post-nasal drip, asthma, antihistamine-decongestant inhalants, yadda yadda (tags: health allergies PersistentCough AsthmaCoughVariant)