Particle accelerators are being harnessed in the fight against cancer, to mixed reviews. It seems a bit excessive to me, but I suppose I might feel differently if I had cancer. AOL news has an awesome ad out; go watch it. (Hat tip to Brendan, who passed this link on to me.) ETA is at …
Bad Language
While I was eating lunch at my father’s with my Chinese mother yesterday, she was telling us about a holiday party she had gone to with a mixed crew of local Chinese and a few of the “Buddha ladies,” as my father calls them, the pretentious white ladies who flutter at the fringes of our …