- People getting all public healthish about Santa. (The BMJ link is clearly in jest, but still, that’s up there with Cookie Monster now going on about cookies as a “sometimes food” and Christopher Robin becoming a girl.)
- If you’re a teenager, apparently being a violent jerk is an effective way to boost your cool factor.
- Want to see Antarctica before it all melts? Well, you’re part of the problem.
- While champagne may be reasonably good for you, apparently we need to wear goggles while opening it. Also, some bad people spray it all over the place instead of drinking it. No, no, no. Also a no-no: handling your tarantula sans goggles.
- Drinks with actual flavour give worse hangovers.
- Apparently the world needs a new acronym, REV, to describe “rape with extreme violence“. Think “…mutilate female genitals with guns, pieces of glass, wood, or heated plastic”. What a charming way to conduct a war.
- I still can’t read headlines like this one: 2 dead in murder-suicide in Sask. town without assuming it’s a woman who’s been killed and wondering boyfriend or husband?. …And yes, yet again in this case it was a woman shot by her partner.
- I’m cold.
- Platinum Blonde, of all bands, in the Hall of Fame. I mean. Really.
- People’s obsession with hand sanitizers is going to kill us all.
- Our security while flying requires that we confiscate babies’ teethers.
- We continue to fund fancy buildings in underserved neighbourhoods, but not the programs and organizations to staff them effectively.
See, this is what happens when I spend a whole day feeling cranky and reading my RSS… all the depressing stuff floats to the top. Perhaps next week I’ll manage a companion post on good stuff, but the first Monday of the year didn’t lend itself to fluffy bunnies.
…Um, happy new year!