Archive for 2010

PANTS: A sale on Dockers.

BRING BACK DDT (CONT’D): More on Florida’s dengue fever outbreak. “Last August, an alert doctor in upstate New York realized that one of his patients, whose only recent travel had been to Key West, Fla., had dengue — a mosquito-borne virus that causes joint pain so severe it is nicknamed “break-bone fever” in Latin America and Asia. According to last week’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida health authorities have since found 27 more cases, all in Key West, the last in April. . . . Although there have been outbreaks along the Texas-Mexico border since 1980, the disease had not been seen in Florida since 1934. Unlike malaria, which is caused by a parasite, dengue is a virus, and there is no cure.”

A TOYOTA PRIUS minivan? “Microvan?”

SEEMS FAIR: Court of Appeals Upholds $16 Million Award for Framing Father for Alleged Child Molestation. “The case is White v. McKinley (8th Cir. May 17, 2010), and the damages award was $14 million in compensatory damages, $1 million in punitive damages against the plaintiff’s ex-wife, and $1 million in punitive damages against the police officer who was the ex-wife’s secret lover; the ex-wife and the police officer were found to have conspired to hide the relationship, and to get rid of a possibly exculpatory diary written by one of the children.”

MICHAEL ROSTON: “As Alaska’s occasional governor, Palin actually took a rather populist position on how oil companies should be dealt with.”

SESTAK STORY MUTATES from scandalous to depressing. “Oh, right. If the Obama administration broke the law, that’s not really the issue. Well you brought it up, Sestak. We’re going to keep asking.”