Don’t know if any of you ever go for Papa John’s pizza.  Obviously we’re talking convenience and modest price here, not teh haute cuisine stuff.  (As usual, my foodie friends led me to the best pizza:  Campisi’s of Dallas.)

But if you do go for cheap n’ easy pies, Pappa Johnny has added three new types of sausage in order to make…the Five Sausage Pizza!  Chorizo, smoked sausage, and mild sausage are the new additions. 

Let us bow our heads and give thanks for the magic animal.

Next trick:  try recording the name “Hastur“ then play it in an endless loop until something happens.

(Hat tip to xkcd, which I’d not checked out in awhile.  It’s still…well…xkcd.)

A Democrat is someone who insists we subsidize education to increase it and subsidize poverty to decrease it.

Of course, ”Democrat” is waaaaay too limited.  The Republican establishment espouses the same position.  And no matter who wins in November, the POTUS will continue the policy.  I won’t be watching the Presidential debates, but by God I would sure love to moderate them.  

There would be no survivors.

Since giving up on women five years ago I’m now in the worst shape of my life.   But if I combined even mild exercise with current media consumption?  It wouldn’t take very long to come back, even with advancing age and dwindling testosterone.

There’s nothing quite like wearing your religion on your sleeve, is there?  Ahhh, the sweetness of “green” sanctimony.

Now, back to playing Sherlock with more difficult mysteries:

So it was inevitable that someone would try “chink in the armor”.  Bwah ha ha ha!  God, that’s funny pathetic.  Apparently they claim it was an accident.  Professional writers who don’t know that “chink” is derogatory?  Okay, fire them for ignorance instead of malice.   

Anyway, about that high-jumping Japanese player.  Just imagine it!

There’s a real Nip in the air tonight! 

That’s pure awesome.  Now we just need an illegal Mexican immigrant to become an Olympic swimmer.

So…here ya go.  The stupidest sea vessel of all time was American.  A WWII ship sooooo unbelievably stupid it could never pass for fiction.  I’m happy it didn’t accidentally murder Roosevelt…I guess…but only because it was about fifteen years too late.

Were the soldiers “hot”?  Er…yes.  Yes, they were.  They’d ccome in from the field and he’d measure their thyroids, where the radioiodine builds up.  He’d get readings in the hundreds of mrem per hour.  That’s four to five orders of magnitude above background, without seeing the beta radiation emitted by the iodine.  100% of that radiation was absorbed by the thyroid or surrounding tissue.

In later years a number of those soldiers had to take medical radioiodine to kill off their damaged or cancerous thyroids.  But I don’t think “irony” is the word I’m looking for.  Pioneers always get the arrows.  We can’t know how stupid some things are until we gather enough information to know how stupid they are.

If you’re familiar with radiation’s enormous scope and utility in modern medicine, you probably agree it has been, by now, a net benefit for humanity.  But that doesn’t change how foolish and mortally dangerous “atomic acclimation” was.

(UPDATE–Shortly after posting this, saw another article on Nobel prize-winning Hermann Muller and his betrayal of science.  Muller may not have caused as many untimely deaths as Rachel Carson.  Then again, maybe he did.)