• Are there cancer vaccines on the horizon?

• If you’re into gymnasts or stunts, you’ll dig this guy.

• Why are so few Christians vegetarian?

• Oh, dear Dog, Tennessee has distinguished itself yet again. I’ve been living here for almost 20 years, and I’m still waiting for us to get a bit of national press for something that isn’t humiliating…

• Here’s a no-brainer: kids need to move around more. In other breaking news, crunchberries are not really fruit.

• Widimedia Commons Picture of the Year results!

• I don’t know if I can go through life without experiencing a Kogi Taco.

• A lovely collection of iconic portraits.

• Bill O’Reilly: ignoramus or liar?

• Buy beer, not porn.

• Awww. A rat and his cat!

And finally, what looks like the Topic of the Week, health care. Here are a few links, and then come commentary from Bill Maher:

• Wow. In today’s America, Sixty percent of bankruptcies are due to medical bills. That is a staggering number. Is there still anyone left out there who doesn’t believe we need health care reform, and fast?

• Here’s another sobering tidbit: People are now not filling prescriptions to save money.

(more here)

• The wiki treatment
• White People like it!
• A little Irish-ish music (along with a story that make you go “awww”!)
• wearing o’ the black
• St. Patrick’s Day won’t occur during Holy Week again until 2160. Thank goodness, since there’s been some controversy over the timing!
• UPDATE (one more): Check out these Guinness Cupcakes!

(regarding the subject line)

First of all… have you committed any abominations today? Chances are that you have. In their effort to protect marriage, Christian conservatives are slowly (and incoherently) backing themselves into a corner. They claim that they want to “protect marriage,” but then why don’t they support laws to punish adulterers and childless couples? Some think that it’s because they’re not really interested in protecting marriage at all, but rather want to get lots of ignorant conservatives to the voting booths, and scaring them into hating gay people is a really easy way to do it. Unfortunately, as they push their literal interpretations of isolated bible passages, they’re turning themselves into terrible sinners, many of whom must now be put to death. Someone clear out the public square — we’ve got a lot of killing and stoning to do.

And on a lighter, sweeter note, check out these fossilized lovers who were found not far from Shakespeare’s Verona, locked in an eternal embrace — they’ve been snuggling like that for 5,000 or 6,000 years (via Daffodil Lane).

And finally, the discussion about the recycling situation in Chattanooga (which I mentioned in a post yesterday), continues. I expect we’ll be hearing a lot more on this subject before either Littlefield comes to his senses, or we get a new mayor who brings a fresh approach to recycling to our fair city.