Yes, it’s raincoaster‘s favorite YouTube muse, Brian Atene, back with a cupfull of holiday cheer just for you (and the Juilliard School, and Kevin Spacey) in this dazzlingly impromptu video entitled A Juilliard Christmas Card.
And in the same spirit, here’s a little something from Dr Boli:
And something meaningful to ponder this New Year’s Eve:
Really, given the choice, what would you do?
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This actually happened back in October, but somehow I missed it. Me, missing an opportunity for a filthy, misleading headline! I musta been drunk!
That’s right, UK government advisor David Nutt has lost his job after making controversial remarks characterizing alcohol and tobacco as more dangerous drugs than E, pot or LSD (from which the government derives no taxes).
Nutt had criticised politicians for “distorting” and “devaluing” the research evidence in the debate over illicit drugs.
Arguing that some “top” scientific journals had published “horrific examples” of poor quality research on the alleged harm caused by some illicit drugs, the Imperial College professor called for a new way of classifying the harm caused by both legal and illegal drugs.
“Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth,” he wrote in the paper from the centre for crime and justice studies at King’s College, London, published yesterday.
“Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked lower at 11, 14 and 18 respectively.”
While the impulse to speak truth to power is, as always, the single MOST dangerous intoxicating substance known.
On the upside, I bet it was a wicked going-away party at Jocelyn Elders‘ house!
A side-effect of the Zemanta Pixie is that it makes it MUCH easier for blog scrapers to steal the entire post, which they are not actually allowed to do.
Quote of the day? My own:
Please take down my post:
https://raincoaster.com/2009/12/29/post-christmas-hangover-and-national-drunk-blogging-day-deferred/Which has been stolen in its entirety and reposted on your site here:
http://madblogz.com/blog/2009/12/29/post-christmas-hangover-and-national-drunk-blogging-day-deferred/
Not stated, but implied, “or else.”
UPDATE: The CTO of Zemanta replied to my comment on their site:
- Expand ⇗
- Verified
andraz 1 day ago in reply to raincoaster
Independently from the above, you can easily change reblog button to one saying “Zemified” or to invisible one inside your Zemanta Preferences. This way there will be no Zemanta Reblog functionality available for your post.
bye
Anrdaz Tori, CTO at Zemanta
TRAGEDY STRIKES!
I have been informed that my vacation sponsors up here in Podunkaville can’t or won’t see their way into bankrolling my participation in National Drunk Blogging Day. Imagine! What’s the point of three week’s free vacation with a view, a hot tub, a fireplace, and a wall full of DVDs if you have to enjoy it sober? I ask yez.
So I have a plan.
So, anyone interested in hooking us up with some tasteh, tasteh C2H5OH, just let me know.
raincoaster 