Tattoo on the muscle that says “Beware, behave, be mine”;

She’ll eat them up for blogwatch, one at a time…

Sed Contra is back!

Southern Voice Online: “A Farsi linguist, a doctor and an intelligence analyst? Well, at least those aren’t positions that are vital to our national security, right? OK, maybe they are vital, but at least we have scores of new recruits to replace each soldier we lose, right?” (more)

Via SRD:

University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered what could be the ultimate prize in biomedicine — cells that behave like embryonic stem cells but don’t raise confounding ethical questions.

These cells — called amniotic epithelial cells — share many of the characteristics that make embryonic stem cells so highly coveted, such as the capacity to become cells for other body tissues and organs and to make copies of themselves, according to Stephen Strom, an associate professor of cellular and molecular pathology at Pitt.

Unlike embryonic stem cells, their harvest doesn’t require the destruction of human embryos.

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And via The Corner:

…The heat doesn’t worry him one bit. He simply reaches for the seersucker. “It’s like wearing your pajamas to work,” he said. “You ever have a dream where you can wear your pajamas to work?”

We shook our head no.

He went on: “In a seersucker, you can live that dream!”

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I love D.C.