The true history behind a certain Pyrates Royale number...

Skeptic: eSkeptic: Wednesday, December 12th, 2007:

The Immortal Lily The Pink
The 100th anniversary of the FDA marks a milestone in medicine before which cranks and charlatans ran amok...

Happy 2nd Anniversary, Kitzmiller!

The Austringer » Guest Poem: Amadan’s “I Am the Very Model of a C-Design-Proponentsist”:

I am the very model of a c-design-proponentsist
The diametric opposite of all that is materialist
My engineering cert allows me call myself a scientist -
We won’t discuss those classes in Biology I might have missed

I work in a diploma mill I call a university
And there I struggle long and hard to teach the controversity
I welcome all opinions notwithstanding their diversity
I just reject the fact-based ones as atheist perversity

God Save The Queen

Greg Laden's Blog : Long Lived the Queen:

But today is a big day in British History.

You see, today is the very first day that Queen Elizabeth of England becomes the oldest person to ever sit on the throne of England. Today, the Queen is 81 years and 244 days old, one day more than Queen Victoria on her last day on the big ugly chair.

And she'll probably be around even longer, given how long her mother was around... :)

follow-up to Lily the Pink...

The reason, according to wikipedia, that the (snake-oil) lady became a drinking-song legend?

Being classified as a "medicine", the 40-proof substance was still allowed on the market during prohibition.  :)

Drink to good health, indeed, 'eh?