Seeya in Hell, old farts

If nobody over the age of 65 had voted, Prop 8 would have failed by a point or two...

The good news for supporters of marriage equity is that -- and there's no polite way to put this -- the older voters aren't going to be around for all that much longer...

mammals schmammals - what have they ever done for us (besides being quite delicious)?

News item - Field Museum expert: One in four mammals threatened with extinction

Modern Eugenics: how we can cull the herd and save money at the same time

Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers
Records Aid Insurers but Prompt Privacy Concerns

Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.

Collecting and analyzing personal health information in commercial databases is a fledgling industry, but one poised to take off as the nation enters the age of electronic medical records. While lawmakers debate how best to oversee the shift to computerized records, some insurers have already begun testing systems that tap into not only prescription drug information, but also data about patients held by clinical and pathological laboratories.