Believing BS can kill you

This is a sad story:

"Doctors diagnosed the boy's leukemia in early November. They began chemotherapy at Children's Hospital, but stopped a week ago because his blood count was too low, the Skagit Valley Herald reported. The boy refused the transfusion on RELIGIOUS grounds."

Huh? So even though doctors gave the boy a 70% chance to live were he to receive regular blood transfusions, a judge ruled that his was fit to make the decision to refuse treatment on the basis that he believed the transfusions were, "unclean and unworthy". Just where did he get such a crazy idea?

"...his birth parents, Lindberg and Rachel Wherry, who do not have custody and flew from Boise, Idaho, to be at the hearing, believed their son should have had the transfusion and suggested he had been unduly influenced by his aunt (who does have custody), who is also a Jehovah's Witness."

So, this crazy aunt got this cockamamie idea into this boy's head, and now he's dead. Rather than attempt to live out a full life of learning, loving and making people happy, he bought into his aunt's superstitious garbage. What a sad waste of a young life.

And us godless heathens get accused of devaluing human life. Give me a break.

Iceland is the best place to live...

...or so says a new report.

I have had the fortune of going there, and I can tell you that it is all that! If you can tolerate the weather which pretty much sucks all year round (although New York winters are colder because Iceland benefits from temperate south winds), and the exorbitant cost-of-living, it is heaven. It's clean, there's no crime, people party hard, there are tremendous arts, and the country is gorgeous.

They're also light-years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to getting off the oil teat.

Ok, forget my last post.

Not that it matters because; a) nobody's reading this, and b) if they were, it's not like I've posted anything in the last 7 weeks anyway.

So, what I was going to say is that after watching the Eagles almost beat the juggernaut that is the New England Patriots, it's obvious how much better the Eagles are without McNabb. This is the epitome of Ewing Theory now. And there's an uncomfortable reality about it that the Philly press is starting to air.

"As a result, Reid's play-calling, the abilities of his receivers to get open, even McNabb's relationship with teammates, have been topics of debate. Curiously, three elements cited repeatedly Sunday night and again yesterday by players and observers as reasons for the near-colossal upset were aggressive play-calling, great catches and team unity."

It's that last point that bears repeating, Eagles fans. Watching McNabb is not fun. Watching AJ Feeley (and last year, Jeff Garcia) is. I ain't saying Feeley is perfect. He, after all, is coming off what is the most lauded 3-interception performance in NFL history, but at least he makes everyone else around him play better.