Injured hawk treated with bird accupuncture. It doesn't help. Sadly, hawk is euthanized.

A female red hawk, injured in November 2010 on the Johns Hopkins campus when she flew into a library window, was euthanized when attempts at rehabilitation, including "bird acupuncture," failed, according to The Baltimore Sun.

In The Sun article, Kathy Woods, in charge of the bird's rehabilitation, explained the difference between human and bird acupuncture: "Instead of having you sit there for half an hour holding a bird of prey with needles, they take a vitamin, and draw it up into tiny syringes. They inject that, and that amount of fluid is the pressure."

So vitamins injected into a bird with tiny syringes is bird acupuncture? Who decided that? I guess the ancient Chinese who knew so much more than modern science and medicine. Vitamins, syringes. Those ancient Chinese really were advanced. And I'll grant that the vitamin injection procedure does seem like a better method than holding a hawk with needles in her for half an hour. Yep, wise people those ancient Chinese.

Jazz for Jesus

Ad from The Baltimore Sun, August 12, 2011

Ad from The Baltimore Sun, August 19, 2011

Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying.

Doonesbury comic, Sunday, August 14, 2011

An accurate fortune cookie!

This fortune, which I just got in the cookie that came with my dinner, really does describe me well--which is why I don't believe fortunes that are stuffed in a cookie. Or believe in other woo-ish stuff.

Faith healing: two woos in one!

 Ad from The Baltimore Sun, July 8, 2011

Faith healing: combining health woo with religion! It's a double-woo.

But if god planned for you to have concerns and problems, should you be trying to mess with his plan?

Bastion of Sass gets a MEDIA RELEASE

I often wonder about the intelligence of the people who read this blog. I know most of them must be really intelligent, since they're reading this blog. But then, I might be mistaken.

Media Release to Bastion of Sass

To: bastionofsass@whereIgetmail.com

MEDIA RELEASE

(Please note: This is a Media Release, not spam. There is a difference.)

Just published ‘Revelations of a Human Space Navigator’ Second Edition is now available for FREE DOWNLOADS.

The Second Edition explains more precisely:

• Exactly from what everything is physically made of, and why.

• Exactly what gravity is, and why.

• Exactly who and what humans are, and why they behave as they do.

• Why god and gods do not physically exist.

• Why 'time' does not physically exist.

• Why there is homosexuality in humans.

• What 'happiness' actually is and how it can be obtained.

PLUS there is much, much more of what humans never knew – or misunderstood – about themselves and all that physically surrounds them.

These claims may appear to be far-fetched to all those who have not read this book. It may also appear as highly improbable that a mere book can contain information that had never before been assessed by human intelligence.

But here's a puzzle... what is intelligence in the first place? Where does intelligence originate? What does intelligence comprise of?

While current humans and their science may wonder about intelligence, they actually know neither what intelligence represents nor how it is derived. And yet, the source of intelligence – as many other unknowns – is revealed and explained in the book.

Do the dead speak? Uh, no, John they don't. Because dead people are dead.

Well Baltimore area skeptics, if you were planning on losing your mind and going to John Edward's August 20 Baltimore appearance to get a message from a dead person, or remaining a skeptic and just going to watch him hustle the gullible grieving, you're too late, despite the fact that the above ad is still running in The Baltimore Sun. According to his website, his Baltimore "group reading" is already sold out.