May 2005

If you don’t feel like doing the pile of dishes in the sink, but can’t stand the idea of waking up in the morning to find that the ants that live under the stove are seething all over your dishes like tiny black maggots, spray a couple spitzes of 409 on your pile of dirty […]

Ah, Jon. Click “view clip” on the right hand side of the page.

Splices of George Bush clips slapped together to create a presidential rendition of “Imagine” and “A Walk on the Wild Side.” Amusing. (vis Simon)

“We were wondering if obesity would be more accepted today because of its increased prevalence and visibility,” said Janet Latner, an assistant professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Latner worked on a 2001 study of 415 New Jersey middle school students that indicates stigmatization of overweight children has grown 40 percent since

It took three clinicians and nearly an hour on the table to get me fitted with an IUD. The trouble was, I wasn’t menstrating (though I was supposed to be – last week’s breakthrough bleeding threw me off), and I’ve never had a child, so I’ve got a very small cervix, and you’ve gotta be