I am not anti-science by any means, but it seems clear to me that we shouldn't just take multinational corporations at their word that everything they do is perfectly safe and only in our best interests based solely on scientific studies that they funded because "Science!" and "Don't be a anti-science superstitious Luddite!" (And it would also be nice if regulatory bodies caught these kinds of adverse effects prospectively rather than retrospectively.)

Recycling bins on every street corner but no trash cans in sight

My gut just made a sound like a thunderstorm.

One of the things we learn as children about wounds is that you should never pick at your scabs. This is guaranteed to prevent healing of the wound, and can actually promote scarring to the point of disfigurement.

Or self-fulfilling prophecy, depending on how you look at it, I suppose. It all depends on who exactly reads my blog, I suppose.

Let the starlight guide my path
bear witness to my salvation
my redemption

This little quiz that I found on R's blog matches rather synchronously with the book I'm reading entitled Peace on Earth by Stanislaw Lem.

Dropping Bombs. Hit men haven’t gotten time for love anyway.

Who will understand this shit? Even the closest, the girl of my dreams, is thousands of kilometers away.