Watch Medical Students Diagnose People on the Internet

I learned about a weirdly cool message board yesterday thanks to an old friend who happens to be in medical school. Apparently there’s a forum where medical students can go to practice diagnosing people’s diseases based only on photographs of skin lesions, bizarre growths and other disorders. It’s strangely fun reading the educated guesses of soon-to-be medical professionals. Is that toxic epidermal necrolysis? No asshole, it’s clearly a case of gengivostomatitis herpetica!  Continue reading →

Orly Taitz Is Running for Senate

Imagine my surprise when scanning the list of people I wasn’t going to nominate for Senate to come across Orly Taitz. You know, the birther dentist lawyer. Apparently she’s hoping Californians will nominate her to run for Senate, and her campaign videos are awesome. Continue reading →

A Visit to the Birthplace of Joseph Smith

I was staying with some friends at a Vermont inn in November, some years ago, when inspiration struck me out of nowhere. In the form of a 38.5-foot-tall granite obelisk.

Idling in the inn’s lobby one evening, I discovered a pamphlet touting the birthplace of Joseph Smith. The Prophet of the Latter-Day Saints and translator of the Book of Mormon had indeed been born just down the road from this inn, in a tiny hamlet in rural Vermont. Continue reading →