Work @ office, heavy traffic, and a bunch o' links

[skreidle]

Worked in the office today, reading about one system, working on another, lunched on some tasty beef brisket, handled a bit of security-related paperwork (with more to come, naturally), lunched on tasty beef brisket at yet another local deli with Leo, and drove home in under an hour via 123-7100-Pohick, none of which is limited >40mph, and that's less time than it would've taken via the shorter, 55mph, 495-95-7100-Telegraph--traffic was backed up from 495 onto 7. F that, I said.

Tomorrow, FNG 1 and FNG 2 head to a call at NRI. This evening, I go pick up a FedEx package containing more ADIC paperwork. Whee!

Oh yeah! Probably training in Denver the first two weeks of November, then home for two, then back to Denver for a week, returning around my birthday. (Dec5)

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Via sebatical earlier, notjaffo today:
Wilton Dedge served 22 years for a crime he didn't commit, all because a rape victim identified the wrong man. The state of Florida stole half his life, and he doesn't even get a bus ticket home.
Thank god for DNA.

Saw it myself, but extra cynicism from weeping_angel incited me to mention it: Two-mile-wide mushroom cloud in N. Korea, they claim it was the result of a mountain being demolished for a powerplant, and U.S. is suggesting they believe it. I'm skeptical. (OTOH, they are allowing inspectors in, and it's hard to mask the radiation from a nuke.)

By notjaffo: I don't know what Glenn Reynolds learned from The Sims, but I learned that I would not be a good parent.

Via visgoth: Much more balanced reporting on the end of the AWB ban from the AP.

Aww, man.. Faith and the Muse robbed.

Via visgoth: Unintended, but very real, consequences of the partial-birth abortion ban. I didn’t realize that pressures well beyond my uterus, beyond the too bright, too-loud, too-small ultrasound room, extending all the way to boardrooms of hospitals, administrative sessions at medical schools and committee hearings in Congress, were going to deepen and expand my sorrow and pain.

Via my mother, then reabhecc, some mildly alarmist medical news relating to tongue piercings. (Dear Abby, 2nd question. Discussion at reabhecc's here.)

Via weeping_angel: It took two years to pass a bill banning necrophilia? And more to the point, it wasn't already illegal?

Comments

[neuroscidude.livejournal.com]

i made a very good apple brisket. this woman at the stop & shop didn't like my recipe and told me how i should make it instead. and the women at my mom's hair place sit there and trade recipes. i hope to get good brisket from ben's this weekend. mmmm...brisket.

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

Might want to include the link on the unintended consequences thing... ;)

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

Take it for what it's worth, but I am curreently leaning toward believing the Koreans explanation... Maybe not the *reason* behind blowing up a mountain using conventional explosives, but the explanation that that is what they did.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Mm! Indeed. :)

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

I an also curreently having trouble spelling.

[weeping-angel.livejournal.com]

Here is the thing on the D&E - it's not forbidden by law. The Doctors were unwilling to do it. A D&E on an already dead baby should never be illegal. However killing it, then extracting? On a healthy fetus? Nope. Sorry, don't buy it. I'll go with the AMA on this one.

"the AMA recommends that abortions not be performed in the third trimester except in cases of serious fetal anomalies incompatible with life. Although third-trimester abortions can be performed to preserve the life or health of the mother, they are, in fact, generally not necessary for those purposes. "
AMA Publication H-5.982 Late-Term Pregnancy Termination Techniques.

Partial birth abortion (or a D&E) was ruled on by no less an authority than the AMA as unnecessary, and quite possibly unethical. (See here)

I've seen this article before, it is sad and horrible. It seems to be making the rounds again in an election year. :/

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't get the impression that it was illegal--especially since, if I recall correctly, the ban was struck down recently--but the ethical and medical issues raised by the more common usage means that women like this one can be in for a hell of a time, through no fault of their own.

[weeping-angel.livejournal.com]

Re: North Korea.

I'm fairly sure if they are allowing inspectors that they feel they have nothing to hide. It is possible that they are telling the truth. However, given their openly stated desire - I don't feel that my cynicsm is unmerited.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious why the U.S. jumped so quickly to the public statement that they didn't think it was nuclear.. unless it was just to stay concerns that NKorea was testing nuclear devices.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I would've liked to see it in person--well, from several miles away. :D

[weeping-angel.livejournal.com]

I wish it were better. I do.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

How does one make an apple brisket? Apple and meat--pork chops and applesauce aside--don't seem like the best combo. And as far as I'm aware, brisket must include chest meat. :)

[weeping-angel.livejournal.com]

that would be my guess. we have done so little in way of anything but minor saber rattleing with regard to N.Korea that staving off those fears seems to be in our best interests.

[neuroscidude.livejournal.com]

Ah, then i have some great apple chicken recipies for you. Meat is all about the marinade. A bit of apple butter, some chicken stock, a few spices, some onions...mmm,mmm,mmm. Its not sweet, it's savory. A real treat for your umami receptors.

[fuzzyamy.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, but I'm in a field that sees all the unusal and horrific pregnancies. I've personally dealt with women who are dealing with them. Their pain is emmense, awesome.

Thus, this woman's story doesn't strike me as all that unusual. "Killing and extracting" an unhealthy fetus -- this happens in my field. We don't promote it, but we want to let clients be able to make that decision, fully informed about what's going to happen.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Tasty-sounding!