Archive for November, 2007
I Know of a Pig Named Mohammed
I felt prompted to write this post in response to the arrest of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan. My Amateur Brain Surgery Club colleague (The Nurse) also appears to have been spurred into responding to this incident by changing her name to ‘The Blessed Virgin Mary’ and changing the name of the prison cat [...]
I named my (fill in the gap) Mohammed!
Mohammed
Fully aware of the risk of having a fatwa raised against her, The Nurse has spent the morning wrenching back common sense from the hands of the nutters. Mainly by re-naming things.
The prison cat, previously named Little Baby Jesus by the inmates, has been re-named Mohammed. Each inmate has signed an agreement to change their christian name to Mohammed (causing some confusion, soon remedied with a [...]Just say no to children: 5 great reasons to stay child-free!
Just about everyone has kids but that doesn’t mean it’s de rigeur. It’s a choice.
In the hope that lots of bouncy, fertile young females and hormone-tortured males’ll read this post, The Nurse feels duty bound to point out the top five benefits of remaining child-free. If you’re currently considering dropping a sprog make yourself a coffee, sit down and read on…
5. pelvic floor [...]Make alcohol a class A drug
So, the UK police are recommending that cannabis is reclassified as a class B drug.
Hm. The Nurse wonders, fruitlessly, whether they’ll make alcohol a class A drug while they’re at it.
A quick online search shows there aren’t any figures available for cannabis-related damage. But alcohol trails destruction, unhappiness and chaos behind it wherever it goes. Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the [...]Poor Urban Planning Makes Children Fat
I have just been reading around a few blogs, forums and university studies on the subject of the much reported obesity epidemic. I was particularly struck by this post: Outdoor Play Facilities Urgently Needed and the warnings presented by Professor Dick Jackson that poor urban planning is a root cause of todays problems. And they [...]
Feed ecstasy to the masses!
The Nurse doesn’t get out much. But she devours the TV news avidly from her cell. So it grabbed her attention when a senior UK police officer recently recommended we make all drugs legal and face the consequences, rather than spending obscene amounts criminalising drug users as well as the abusers.
Millions of ordinary law-abiding folk [...]I Love Americans!
I don’t care if my fellow amateur brain surgeons aren’t big fans of America. I am! Having spent some of the most enjoyable months of my life as a post-graduate student at Caltech, living in Altadena, I grew to love both the country and the people. Both so varied, interesting, challenging, rewarding and generous.
I had [...]Playground justice says Bush’s nuclear strategy for Iran is doomed
Like business, politics works to the rules of the playground.
It seems really silly to try and tell Iran they can’t have a nuclear deterrent when every other bugger has a load of them stashed in the garden shed. The US and UK included.
Isn’t it common sense that nuclear weapons will only work as a deterrent if everybody has one?
Try only letting half the kids in a school play with their gameboy at [...]When Estimates are Plain Wrong
The government’s inaccurate estimate of the number of foreign workers in the UK has been in the headlines this week. The estimate has reportedly been shy of about 400,000 workers who have come to the UK in the past 10 years.
How is it possible to get it so wrong? People who work in this country [...]Rudy Giuliani is an Idiot
Rudy Giuliani appears to have shot himself in the foot in his recent attempt to attack the American Democratic plans for improvements to the American healthcare system.
He suggested that, in Britain, his chances of surviving prostate cancer would have been around 44% whereas in the U.S. his chances were much higher at around 82%.
Firstly, his [...]
