Alert: Bird Flu Strikes Florida Trailer Park!  You have to go look.  The devastation is horrible.

Why it’s important to have advance directives for your health care.  If you don’t have your wishes documented and clarified, you could end up like this woman: being “maintained” by medical professionals despite having no hope for recovery.

What do slugs eat?  Earthworms, of course!  Warning: includes photos not intended for the squeamish (although I thought they were quite cool).  [via Afarensis]

Directly contradicting a government study from 1999 performed by real scientists, not to mention the plethora of evidence which clearly indicates the truth of the matter, the FDA says marijuana has no medical uses.  One word: stupid fucking idiotic blinded-by-politics mindless lying cretins with their heads stuck up their own asses.  OK, more than one word.  This is simply a case of making a political decision to the detriment of Americans and their medical care in direct contention with the known facts (including what the government has already said).

Kentucky’s Republican governor used “Diversity Day” to remove protections for homosexuals.  He didn’t understand what that day was for, right?  The Kentucky business community didn’t like that very much and excoriates him with a scathing editorial:

While Kentucky businesses are begging the governor to obsess over workforce training, skyrocketing health care costs and incentives for job growth, he seems more focused on meddling in the choices people make in their private lives as to what sort of companionship best suits their personal needs.

How ironic is it that on “Diversity Day,” the governor of Kentucky let the Vice President of the United States know that his daughter isn’t welcome on his staff – which is a sad thing, because Mary Cheney is intelligent, articulate, and accomplished and might have the talent to transform the governor’s dismal approval ratings overnight…

By excluding a particular class of employee from protection from discrimination –even hostility– the governor places in jeopardy the personal happiness any employee should be free to pursue as long as there is no interference with job performance. A personally contented employee is a productive employee and efficiency and productivity in government are the long touted goals of this administration.

The governor’s action, however, goes beyond the state’s relationship with its employees. It is a governor’s role to lead by example. The example set by this policy excuses –and in some cases invites– discrimination in the private sector, except where prevented by ordinance, by simply freeing employers to look the other way while open season is declared in the workplace.