GOOD NEWS FOR VULTURES Almost-extinct vultures may be making a comeback within the Parsi community of Mumbai, India, after a pain reliever (diclofenac) nearly wiped it out. Parsis’ Zoroastrian religion requires “natural” body disposals (no cremation or burial) of humans and cattle, and bodies have always been ritually laid out for the hungry birds, but the community has also … [Read more...] about Good News For Vultures and Dog Sex Prosecutions and Stiletto Surgery
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The Sessions Film Review
Here’s a true story that shouldn’t work as a movie, let alone a movie this good. John Hawkes stars as Mark O’Brien, a Polio survivor who spends hours of his life in an iron lung and cannot do his day to day activities without the assistance of someone to dress him and push him around on a cart. O’Brien is a poet with a brilliant mind and a healthy, even cynical attitude about … [Read more...] about The Sessions Film Review
Least Competent Sex Offender And Cuddly Geopolitics And Weather Crimes
KIDS THESE DAYS! Among the students featured in Popular Science’s September list of young inventors was Fabian Fernandez-Han, 14, of Conroe, Texas, who invented a bicycle that, when pedaled, also desalinates seawater (via reverse osmosis) from replaceable 15-gallon canisters. One hour of pedaling produces 20 gallons of drinkable water. Jack Andraka, 15, from Maryland, created a … [Read more...] about Least Competent Sex Offender And Cuddly Geopolitics And Weather Crimes
Eh Brah! Humps in the Night
These walls are thin. You know it because you hear my children screaming and giggling and banging their toys on the floor all day. We know it because we hear you and your various boyfriends bumping uglies and groaning about it like you’re auditioning for a porno all night, every night. I have no problem with you having an active sex life; I was once young myself. But if I’m … [Read more...] about Eh Brah! Humps in the Night
Erogenous Zones
Kanaha Beach Park This is one of my favorite places. The constant but gentle lull of the ocean is showcased against the occasional airplane roar. Not only that, but you can zip off to town in a moment’s notice to take care of food or an impending curfew. But if you decide to do your smoochin’ in the car while parked inside, be warned that someone will probably interrupt you … [Read more...] about Erogenous Zones