If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart?

[raybear]

HARPER's WEEKLY REVIEW

Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey announced that he is a "gay American" and resigned. "I am here today because,
shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony," he said.
"It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable." The California Supreme Court nullified gay marriages in that
state, and there was a scandal in Australian cattle circles over udder doping. Philippine president Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo told her countrymen to stop kissing her, and four people were arrested in the Philippines for killing,
cooking, and eating a relative at a wedding reception. Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 life terms without parole for
his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. A British rapist who was out of prison for a weekend leave won the lottery, and
Dominican migrants, lost at sea on their way to Puerto Rico, threw a woman overboard when she refused to share her breast
milk with other passengers. A 480-pound Florida woman who had not left her couch for six years died when doctors
attempted to separate her from the couch, which was fused to her body. A Jelly Belly factory was robbed, and crude oil
prices were at record levels. President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan ordered the construction of a palace of ice.
Arabs hate America more than ever, according to a new poll, and a man who was sued by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for selling "Arnie" bobblehead dolls announced that he will now sell "Arnie" urinal cakes and a "Girlie Man" bobblehead doll
with the governor wearing a pink dress.

Hurricane Charley killed 13 people in Florida and caused an estimated $20 billion worth of damage. There was heavy
fighting in western Afghanistan. Peace talks between the new Iraqi government and Moktada al-Sadr broke down; al-Sadr was
reportedly wounded in a battle with American forces. A British journalist was kidnapped in Basra and released a few
days later; an Islamic website posted photographs of the beheading of an Egyptian. American warplanes bombed
Fallujah. Croatian explorers found the world's deepest hole. A plague of locusts was heading for Darfur, Sudan, where the
national police force has been recruiting members of the Janjaweed militia. Hutu rebels attacked a refugee camp in
Burundi and killed at least 159 Tutsis. Three British men who have been held in Guantanamo Bay for two years were
preparing to meet their lawyers for the first time. A Pakistani man was in custody in North Carolina for
videotaping skyscrapers. Al Qaeda was reportedly planning a big assassination, and Iran tested a new long-range
ballistic missile. Roughly 1,600 Palestinians in Israeli jails began a hunger strike to protest their conditions; "As
far as I'm concerned, they can strike for a day, a month, until death," said Tzahi Hanegbi, the Israeli security
minister. The U.S. was planning to pull 70,000 troops out of Asia and Europe, and National Guard and reserve troops were
losing their civilian jobs in greater numbers. A flaming rabbit burned down a British cricket club.

British researchers were granted a license to clone human stem cells. A Texas dentist died after contracting a
flesh-eating bacteria called vibrio vulnificus, a crow in Oregon tested positive for West Nile virus, and three
Vietnamese died of bird flu. It was reported that HIV has crossed the species barrier from apes to humans at least
seven times in recent years and that a new strain of HIV, which is undetectable by normal HIV tests, has appeared in
Cameroon. Scientists said that eating bush meat is the most likely cause; earlier this year, three bush-meat hunters
came down with simian foamy virus. Scientists at Purdue University were using ribonucleic acid to create
self-assembling nanostructures. Czeslaw Milosz died. People born in January and February, a study found, are at greatest
risk of getting brain cancer, while those born in July and August are least likely to develop it. A twin delivered two
sets of twins on her birthday. People in Mottola, Italy, made a 2,280-foot-long salami sandwich. Julia Child died. A
linguist at MIT found that women prefer men with names containing "front vowels" rather than "back vowels"; in an
experiment performed using the Hot or Not website, men named Matt, Ed, and Mike were sexier than the same men when they were named Paul, Sean, or Roger. Scientists used a dopamine blocker to turn lazy monkeys into hard workers.





“Meaning”

—When I die, I will see the lining of the world.
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
The true meaning, ready to be decoded.
What never added up will add up,
What was incomprehensible will be comprehended.

—And if there is no lining to the world?
If a thrush on a branch is not a sign,
But just a thrush on a branch? If night and day
Make no sense following each other?
And on this earth there is nothing except this earth?

—Even if that is so, there will remain
A word wakened by lips that perish,
A tireless messenger who runs and runs
Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies,
And calls out, protests, screams.

-- Czeslaw Milosz





To Begin Anew

You have the opportunity of making a fresh new start when it comes to your personal finances, RAYMOND. On Monday there is a New Moon in Leo, which is good for all beginnings. As Mercury is retrograde at this time, you need to know that whatever you set in motion may take some time to come to fruition, but it will still be worth taking the first step. So don't hold back. Tuesday is good for making commitments, as there is a nice trine between Jupiter and Saturn, which brings you confidence and assurance in the same breath. But Wednesday is one day when you really don't want to do anything in haste. Mars conjuncts Mercury and both oppose Uranus, which is quite a fiery and dramatic combination. It may show up, especially if you have legal matters on the boil and something isn't to your satisfaction. Whatever you do, don't react on the spur of the moment and do something silly. And don't drive if you happen to be in a temper - it is one of those times when you need to remain calm and relaxed, and not allow stressful situations to get to you. But in general you are quite well placed for progress, though it might not happen overnight.



Guess who showed up at my door half an hour after posting? A super super hot UPS guy. He said yesterday he rang the downstairs neighbor's bell too and they told him "he doesn't live here anymore". So, he either talked to the woman with alzheimer's, or the caretaker I see everyday must not know my name. Mercury in retrograde, anyone? But now I can inject, cut my hair, shower, shave (or maybe keep the scruff...), get dressed and go downtown.

Any second now, I'll get right on that.

Comments

[dommeyourass.livejournal.com]

People born in January and February, a study found, are at greatest risk of getting brain cancer

great. brain tumor or altzheimers. jeesh.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

If I retain only one piece of knowledge from my science degree and senior thesis, it's that medical studies are grossly misreperesented in the news and so-called 'conclusions' are very rarely that.