Whereas Viagra is.

Why should men have to pay for women's choice to use or not to use birth control. Men on the other hand have no choice whether they take Viagra, because it's a medical condition. I mean really that is so unfair.

*sigh*

I guess it's a Man's World After All

In The Driest Coldest Place on Earth something freaky is happening. It's been raining.

Rain soaked baby penguins are freezing to death, before they have a chance to develop their feathers which repel water.

Biologist Professor P. Dee Boersma, of the University of Washington in Seattle, has published a study in the magazine BioScience in which she says that the warming climate is also threatening the Emperor penguin.

She visited East Antarctica in December 2006 – less than two years after March Of The Penguins was shot – and says it would be unrecognisable to anyone who saw the film.

‘I saw no Emperor penguin chicks, no sea-ice and fewer than a dozen small icebergs.

I was just shocked,’ she said.

‘It was the first time our expedition leader had seen the area free of ice since he started going there in the Eighties.

A miserable start to life, cold, wet and dying arctic penguins try to eke out an existence.

from der spiegel

When asked in and interview with SPIEGEL when he thinks US troops should leave Iraq, Maliki responded "as soon as possible, as far as we are concerned." He then continued: "US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."

Al-Maliki has long shown dissatisfaction for an open ended presence of the US military in Iraq.

Will the US respect the right of Iraq's to make their own decisions?

Lots of good stuff , starting with wrong-door drug raids and smoking pot to treat cancer.

Ironman Lake Placid start in just over two hours. Supposed to a be a rainy day. (Shudder)

The Pentagon's top military officer said Sunday a specific time frame for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq could jeopardize political and economic progress, leading to "dangerous consequences."

Semantics word game?

Adm. Mike Mullen said the agreement between President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to set a "general time horizon" for bringing more troops home from the war was a sign of "healthy negotiations for a burgeoning democracy."