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Recall Election Office Needs Help

We Are Wisconsin is the group working the recalls, and they had an office in LaCrosse, WI, burn to the ground this past week just as 800 volunteers had shown up to canvass the neighborhood for next week’s recall election.

The amazing thing is that they went out & canvassed anyway. Kind of mind-blowing. But they do need to replace the office & plenty of supplies they lost in the fire. I’m sure they had insurance, but that’s not often a speedy process, and the election is on 8/9, so help if you can.

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One of Everything

Another amazing story out of India: a man’s stomach complaints turn out to be a uterus & ovaries. Imagine going into a hospital as a man with abdominal pains and winding up having a hysterectomy.

“The external reproductive organs of the patient were masculine and he has no problems whatsoever with his sexuality. He had functional male genitals and there was no formation of breasts in the patient. It’s an embryological accident at the time of embryonic formation,” he said.

The patient, who was said to be as “stunned” as his doctors at the discovery, is recovering in hospital and is being supported by his family.

It’s an interesting thought, isn’t it? I had a doctor tell me once about a patient who had terrible acid reflux, and it turned out his stomach was backwards, so that the shallow end of it was at the end of the esophagus.

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Two Tune Tuesday: Foster the People

I kept noticing “Pumped Up Kicks” because the guy’s voice reminded me of Ray Davies’ and that’s just not a bad thing.


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Trippy and sweet electronica, what isn’t often my thing, but sometimes it hits when there’s some kind of nice noise & a pretty voice.