the guvment, in passing...

2 in Congress Face Ethics Investigations
By PHILIP SHENON
Published: May 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, May 17 — The House ethics committee agreed on Wednesday to open investigations of a pair of lawmakers — one Democrat, one Republican — who are the focus of criminal investigations by the Justice Department.

The committee, virtually shut down by partisan deadlock for 16 months despite swirling accusations of illegality involving several House members, also plans to examine whether other lawmakers took part in a bribery scheme led by a former House member, Randy Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham, a California Republican, resigned from Congress this year after pleading guilty to accepting illegal gifts from military contractors.

The lawmakers who were identified by name as the focus of the committee's investigations — Representatives Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican who has been close to the House Republican leaders, and William J. Jefferson, a lesser-known Louisiana Democrat — have said they are innocent of wrongdoing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/washington/18ethics.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

A cure for cancer?

The news today says...maybe.

Specifically, a vaccine for cervical cancer, the first ever specifically designed to prevent cancer*.

I'm...cautious, because hopes have been dashed before. But it's a hell of a forward leap. And since I'm in the high-risk category for cervical cancer, I'm feeling it doubly so.



If you donated to the Revlon Run/Walk? Feel good. You helped get us here.





*and, of course, there are *expletives deleted* who want to deny the vaccine, because they claim it will 'encourage promiscuity." If someone says that near you? Hit them. Hard. I'll be your alibi.