The Aids Vaccine

If you were an African country where 5 million people had Aids, a pretty simple solution to your Aids problem would be to tell people ‘garlic and beetroot.’ Now, this is a pretty darn good remedy, if you lived Ancient Rome and were also a voodoo priest. But if you’re the Health Minister in South Africa, it’s a little bit of a different story:

More than 60 international experts on HIV/Aids have called for the resignation of the South African health minister because of her stance on Aids.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang tells those with HIV to eat garlic and beetroot.

In a letter sent to President Thabo Mbeki, the academics called the government’s health policy “disastrous and pseudo-scientific”.

“Many people [in South Africa] are dying unnecessarily” because they cannot get Aids drugs, the letter says.

South Africa is one of the countries worst affected by Aids, with some 5m people with HIV.

Bronzed Poop

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I’ve Been Saying It Since Day One

I’ve said it once, I’ve said it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and now someone is trying to outshine my fo’head:

Bill O’Reilly: Profile of a Psychotic Dick. (And I Hate Bill O’Reilly)

What the Terrorists Want

What the Terrorists Want:

On Aug. 16, two men were escorted off a plane headed for Manchester, England, because some passengers thought they looked either Asian or Middle Eastern, might have been talking Arabic, wore leather jackets, and looked at their watches — and the passengers refused to fly with them on board. The men were questioned for several hours and then released.

On Aug. 15, an entire airport terminal was evacuated because someone’s cosmetics triggered a false positive for explosives. The same day, a Muslim man was removed from an airplane in Denver for reciting prayers. The Transportation Security Administration decided that the flight crew overreacted, but he still had to spend the night in Denver before flying home the next day. The next day, a Port of Seattle terminal was evacuated because a couple of dogs gave a false alarm for explosives.

Dolphins are stupid

Yes, it’s the actual title of the article. And nothing sums it up better than the last lines:

Manger also points to the tuna industry, which under consumer pressure has gone to great lengths to prevent dolphins from being caught and killed by accident in nets.

“If they were really intelligent, they would just jump over the net because it doesn’t come out of the water,” he said.