Anne means "full of prayer, mercy and grace."
I figure two out of three ain't bad.

Church Giving Assault Rifle to One Lucky 15 Year Old


And you can quote me: "You know..I can't even write about this, as it's so preposterous - so disgusting - yet so...sadly..true. So here is the link to the story about an Oklahoma church that is sponsoring a contest where one lucky teen gets an AR-15. But of course comments welcome back here."

Posted in Serious, July 14th, 2008


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You know..I can’t even write about this, as it’s so preposterous - so disgusting - yet so…sadly..true.

So here is the link, but of course comments welcome back here:

Baptist Church in Assault Rifle Give-Away

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Anne means "full of prayer, mercy and grace."
I figure two out of three ain't bad.

iPhone Insanity


And you can quote me: "It's 3:30 in the afternoon..it's 96 degrees out.. The Boulder Apple store has been open for 7 1/2 hours..and look at the freakin' line."

Posted in Observations, July 11th, 2008


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It’s 3:30 in the afternoon..it’s 96 degrees out.. The Boulder Apple store has been open for 7 1/2 hours..and look at the freakin’ line.

An unnamed Apple store employee said that they weren’t allowed to comment on the insanity..but seemed to agree that it was insane.

Us? We’re headed next door to watch a movie in the air conditioned theatre.
We win.

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FDA Won’t Put Warning on Epilepsy Drugs Despite 80% Increase in Suicide Risk


And you can quote me: "In news of the disgusting, the FDA today decided not to put a warning on 11 epilepsy drugs known to increase suicidal thoughts and tendancies by at least 80%!!! (Some reports put the increase at 100%.)"

Posted in Rants, Serious, July 10th, 2008


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In news of the disgusting, the FDA today decided not to put a warning on 11 epilepsy drugs known to increase suicidal thoughts and tendancies by at least 80%!!! (Some reports put the increase at 100%.)

The FDA, listening to a panel of outside experts, heard that the increase was “only” 2 people in 1000, and the experts said that they were “very concerned … about the risk of unintended consequences of influencing practice and discouraging patients” (from taking antiepilepsy drugs).

According to news reports, the FDA had wanted to require a warning in a big box on all anti-epilepsy drug labels, but was talked out of it by the panel which, of course, included representatives of the drug manufacturers.

The drugs implicated in the suicide and suicidal thoughts increase are:

  • carbamazepine (Carbatrol, Equetro, Tegretol, Tegretol XR)
  • felbamate (Felbatol)
  • gabapentin (Neurontin)
  • lamotrigine (Lamictal)
  • levetiracetam (Keppra)
  • oxcarbazepine (Trileptal)
  • pregabalin (Lyrica)
  • tiagabine (Gabitril)
  • topiramate (Topamax)
  • valproate (Depakote, Depakote ER, Depakene, Depacon)
  • zonisamide (Zonegran)
  • Patients taking any of the above drugs who become stressed at the thought that it might lead to their committing suicide are advised to take Prozac to help with their stress*.

    (*That is irony - I am not a medical doctor, and that is not a real recommendation.)

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