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November 17th, 2009 | 
Author: Sweet Fanny Adams. That’s what. My theory’s always been that the Mayan calendar “ends” on that date because that’s as far as they took it. Heck, there’s even question as to whether 2012 is actually the end. It may actually be 2220!
Mark Dery does a much better job of debunking this nonsense over at h+ Magazine than I ever could. My personal favourite is the choice words BoingBoing editor Xeni Jardin has about Daniel Pinchbeck, high priest of 2012 hokum and profiteering: Read the rest of this entry »
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I was thinking about the debate about publicly funding health care in the US last night and an intriguing question came to mind. If socialized health-care is so inherently evil, do you suppose that all those politicians, tea baggers and insurance-industry execs and lobbyists decided to pay for their vaccination? Or do you think they just quietly accepted the government-supplied one without giving it a second thought?
That would be a good opening question for every media interview about Obama’s healthcare plan from this point on: Who paid for your H1N1 vaccination? You or the taxpayer?
This notice went up on the boys’ school website yesterday:
Staff and parents are doing an excellent job fighting the spread of the flu virus. There is a small increase in the number of students absent each day, but this is partly due to the consideration parents are showing in keeping children home who are exposed to the virus or experiencing flu symptoms (see yesterday’s chart of symptoms or note/label sent home in ALL student agendas on Tuesday). The absentee rate was 15% on Monday, 17% on Tuesday, 20% on Wednesday and 22% today. We will continue to wash and spray disinfectant frequently. Thank you for the support you are showing every day.
I can’t seem to locate any kind of school closing plan, so I have no idea if we’ll wind up having to stay home with them at some point. I’m very lucky, though: I can do about 90% of my job from home. As long as I have internet, all is good.
Macleans magazine’s entertainment columnist has somehow managed to trade one horrific earworm for another:
Some of you will recall – possibly with full-body shudders and theatrical flashbacks – the grim details of my darkest hour, when I confessed to an enraptured blogosphere that I was utterly incapable of getting Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart out of my head.
I’ve taken the flu vaccine every year since the province started paying for it and haven’t actually caught the bug in that time. I’ve had colds, but that’s it.
I’ve heard some disturbing developments here in town that’s stiffened my resolve to get both the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines when they’ve available: Read the rest of this entry »
