October 2019 – postcards from the pug bus

Prostate Cancer Seen As Major Cause of Prostate Cancer Deaths

Biff Scuzzy 461 Views 2 min read

LONDON – A study has determined that men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer are nearly twenty-five times as likely to die from the disease as men who are prostate-cancer free. This conclusion was reached after a team of researchers had carefully recorded the causes of death of more than 300,000 men. Among the subjects Read More

Weed

Pot Is Dead

philmaggitti 523 Views 2 min read

If Nietzsche were alive today, he would have to declare, “Pott ist tot.” Pot is dead. In Nietzsche’s time, as in ours, these sorts of uber deaths occur long before most people notice. Indeed, there are still worshipers who attend church on Sunday even though god has been dead an ungodly long time; and most Read More

News

Obesity-Causing Virus Found on Toilet Seats

philmaggitti 501 Views 2 min read

BATON ROUGE—A virus commonly found on toilet seats (TS-36) may be at the bottom of the obesity epidemic threatening to engulf the United States and to put a morbid strain on its gravity supply. Until now obesity was thought to be caused largely by overeating, prolonged residence below the Mason-Dixon Line, frequent attendance at cat Read More