Just in case you can’t read that, it says:
57% – Percentage of the general public who believe that divine intervention can save a person when doctors deem treatment to be futile.
19% – Percentage of physicians who believe this to be true.
Frankly, I’m not surprised in the least to know that a majority of Americans believe this (after all, they voted for George Bush TWICE), but I am scared shitless to discover that nearly 20% of doctors do.
Problem is, by the time they’ve got me hooked up to life support, I won’t be able to ask them which group they belong to. That’s why I designated a health care proxy when I had my bypass operation several years ago, and why you should, too. Don’t leave your life up to The Imaginary Grandpa and ZombieBoy.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
50%: The number of people at or below 100 on a standardized IQ test
Makes you wonder about that 7%, too.