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This was almost funny. I'd really hate to be a soldier on the ground, having to keep morale up these days.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3788750a10,00.html

There is an existing thread on this but it's in the Politics forum, which isn't really the focus I wanted. I keep reading of mothers wanting to have chicken pox parties. They believe that the immunity conferred by having the disease is superior to the immunity conferred by having the vaccine...

http://www.mediafax.ro/english/articole-free/UPDATE--Romania--s-Intelligence-Service--s-Report-On-Bird-Flu-Origin-Inconclusive-PM-493660-9.html For additional reports see also links at: http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/f?p=2400:1000

Once more, it's time to play Spot the Idiots.

Why is it more dangerous to contract chicken pox as an adult than as a child? Isn't an adult's immune system better developed? I'm not including the elderly in this.

Under the heading of "Truth is not only stranger than fiction - it's stranger than we can imagine", I bring you... (insert drum roll here) Mike, the Headless Chicken! Enjoy. :D

Last week, I had forgotten to take the chicken out of the refridgerator for dinner. Considering that I can't cook dinner on Mondays and Wednesdays due to class (see: post in lamma mathematician about Administration) and that chicken is only good for about a day to two days in the fridge, this...

At first I thought this might fall under the internet section of this forum, but then I saw that this section also hosts what it calls "Social Issues." Definatly the right place for this: http://www.subservientchicken.com/ Be nice to the chicken...

Can someone help me figure out which side of this one I am on? http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/25/peta.billboard.reut/index.html PETA v. The Catholic Church Kinda like reading about Nazi Germany vs. Stalin's Soviet Union, or watching a Devils/Rangers Stanley Cup Semifinal back in...

seriously, it's cool.

OK. I was watching "The Pet Psychic" this weekend. (Nothing else was on...lousy Emmys) It was very humourous, and it seems to me like Sonya actually believes she has these powers. Anyway, this one person had Sonya take a look at her hen which hadn't been acting right lately (Uh how do you know...