Zooey wrote:

This is separate from you thesis?

And is this a MS or a PhD?

Did I tell you my son got Rubella from his vaccine?

Yes it was separate from the thesis. It’s just something I did for ‘fun’. I’m getting an MS from Michigan State University in Clinical Laboratory Science. The hospital where I work is paying for half of it so it’s a pretty sweet deal. I’m all done with my coursework and am just working on my thesis now.
Are you sure your son got the measles? The vaccine is an attenuated live virus and some people have a reaction that involves a rash and some minor symptoms but I’ve never heard of anyone getting full-blown measles from the vaccine and I couldn’t find anything on it during a (brief) search of the literature.

Zooey wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Nah, I can’t because MNF is on tonight.

And truth be told even if it wasn’t I’d find something else to do instead. Watching those two hellspawn try to out lie each other does not make for compelling television viewing.

I have too much work to do at school, but even if I had the time, I’m not sure I could watch it. I would just wanna barf the whole time, and I would feel like complete shit after watching it. It would just upset me. The only reason to watch is the spectacle of a powerful empire smugly going down the drain.

Yeah, it would just piss me off listening to their BS. And I’d be thinking about what fucking liars they are and how their policies will make the poor poorer and the rich richer while they pretend to give a shit.

And then I’ll get depressed when I think about the large segments of the American people who buy into their BS.

I don’t need that aggravation. I’ve made so many enemies arguing about this stuff this election cycle that it isn’t worth it anymore. One of them is going to get elected anyway and the country will be what it will be.

I’m just going to watch football, read about stuff I like to read about, work on my thesis and only eat food with the GMO label. 😉

Did I tell ya I’m published (or will be soon)? The journal Clinical Laboratory Science is publishing a manuscript that I wrote. It’s titled, “The Direct Oral Anticoagulants Apixaban, Rivaroxaban and Edoxaban; Mechanism of Action and Laboratory Analysis”. And yes, it is every bit as interesting as the title suggests.

InvaderRam wrote:

i want to see more consistency though from this defense. too much talent and too many mental lapses for my taste. but the secondary being in such shambles may have something to do with that.

That’s been the issue with this defense for some time…inconsistency.

I think it’s a little better now. It started getting better sometime last season but it certainly could be better. It won’t ever be a truly great defense until it becomes more consistent.

Top defensive grades:

DT Aaron Donald, 84.4

LB Alec Ogletree, 84.3

S T.J. McDonald, 81.7

DT Michael Brockers, 76.5

DE Robert Quinn, 73.3

Well, I guess we can conclude that the Ogletree to MLB experiment is a huge success.

The run defense hasn’t suffered with Tree at MLB (it may even be better) and he covers a lot more ground than Lauranitis did in pass defense.

That was one calculated risk that paid off nicely, anyway.

That was good. Very thorough.

The Arizona game looks very winnable right now.

Dare we think it?

3-1?!

wv wrote:

I’m thinking of giving out plastic dinosaurs as well as candy this year.

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Plastic dinosaurs?

Awesome.

Back when I was trick-or-treating your house would have been spared an egging or soaping for giving out plastic dinosaurs.

As long as I got a good one that is…like a T. rex or Triceratops.

If you gave me an Iguanodon or some other wimpy hadrosaur, you’d be pulling toilet paper out of your trees for a month.

The Rams are one of the best if not THE best team in the league at being in streaks that involve losing.

As a matter of fact, they currently have a streak of 13 consecutive seasons of being associated in some way with a streak that involves losing.

And let’s not forget the mother of all losing streaks…losing 17 consecutive times to the 49’ers.

Masterful, that.

To do what the Patriots have done with 2nd and 3rd string QB’s is truly amazing. After only 3 games, Billicheat is already coach of the year.

And after Brady and Gronk, it’s not like that team is full of HOF’ers. This is truly a case where the sum is much greater than the parts. That’s due to brilliant coaching.

Curse the twisted mind that could conceive of such a thing.

You realize you leave me no choice but to retaliate with even an even greater megatonnage of annoyance.

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I can’t think of anything I’d want to ask him. He is not that interesting to me.

Much rather talk to Fisher or Snead. It would be pointless though because there’s no doubt that all my questions would be answered in meaningless coachspeak.

wv wrote:

Maybe sharks dont like all those Genetically modified foods in us. Ever think of THAT.

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Well then, yet another reason to support GMO foods. They protect us from sharks. Thanks, Monsanto!

If it was left up to Big Organic, we’d all be shark bait.

The word “attack” is usually a misnomer when it comes to sharks and people.

They are really just encounters. In most cases, the shark bites and lets go. And usually disappears. It is rare when they attempt another bite. The reason for this is the shark isn’t actually trying to eat the person. Usually it’s not even aggressive. It is investigating the person. Trying to figure out what the person is. Sharks investigate unusual objects by mouthing them. They get a sense of what an object is through taste. The shark tastes a person, the person doesn’t taste like food, so the shark moves on. Unfortunately, even a gentle shark bite can be catastrophic to a person but think about how the vast majority of people survive ‘attacks’.

If the shark really wanted to eat the person, the person would be eaten and there’s little the person could do to prevent it. The fact that so many people survive these encounters is proof in and of itself that sharks typically aren’t interested in eating them.

Calling these encounters “attacks” contributes to the false but widespread perception that sharks are simply savage killing machines. That perception is an obstacle in the race to protect them from extinction and they are being slaughtered at a rate of 75 – 100 million per year.

Now, my guess is, as is the usual case, that his supporters will dismiss the mountains of facts and evidence, and just fall back on the narrative that’s he’s being persecuted and is the ultimate in perfection and can do no wrong.

We live in the ‘post truth’ era of American politics. Not that there was ever a time when politicians didn’t lie, but there’s never been a time when politicians could say such outrageously obvious lies and not be held accountable for it.

Until today.

Welcome to post truth America.