…for The National Review if that’d just, you know, be forthright about their desire to bomb Iran. is so goddamn passive-aggressive.
Iran won?t stop so long as there is no price to its acts of war. The controversy over Lieberman?s remark shows how we aren?t prepared to make it pay one.
Man blames health drink for unwanted erection
29-year-old claims Boost Plus caused condition that required surgery
NEW YORK - A man has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside and caused him to be hospitalized.
The lawsuit filed by Christopher Woods of New York said he bought the nutrition beverage made by the pharmaceutical company Novartis AG at a drugstore on June 5, 2004, and drank it.
Woods? court papers say he woke up the next morning ?with an erection that would not subside? and sought treatment that day for the condition, called severe priapism.
i’m not a guy, but this makes me shudder:
They say Woods, 29, underwent surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt, which moves blood from one area to another.
“It’s fairly easy to destroy a civilized society,” noted John Updike, during the Q&A session of his Union Square reading of Terrorist.
He’d recalled watching the Twin Towers fall — “like a telescope,” he said, while mimicking the sound and motion of a collapse — from a safe distance and said that it was “the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” (He was too young for combat in WWII.) He also said, I thought grudgingly, that “the fact that there hasn’t been another attack is to the administration’s credit.”
Updike was asked if, at this stage in the game, he paid attention to critics. Yes, he admitted, if the criticism was constructive.
But, he cautioned, “It’s suicidal to try to please everybody.”