Kurt Vonnegut, subject of so many painful 1st year English Lit debates (Is it or is it not important literature?) passed away yesterday at the age of 84. Dead from a brain injury from a fall he took a couple of weeks ago.
I can't imagine what it would have been like to go from my teens to my twenties without him. Thank god the books didn't go with him.
The New York Times has a goose-bump inducing obituary
What can I say, I am a tragedy whore.
So Gonorrhea has become resistant to all but one kind of antibiotic... which means that unless new antibiotics are developed, the clap could kick some serious ass.
Washington Post Story
I was looking for an image to post with this piece of news and came across this stuffed version of an enlarged gonorrhea microbe!
Dirty Microbe
also sells plush versions of your other favorite diseases: mono, syphillis, the common cold. I'm thinking that you could give these out as a sort of booby prize for the people with incurable gonorrhea...