Coming Attractions

Sometimes we ask questions that we're afraid to know the answers to. It's an exercise that -- like sausage -- you're better off sometimes not knowing how it's made.

But if we fail to ask ourselves the Big Questions, what we don't know can hurt us.  For weeks I've been freaking out in slow motion over a rumor. I forced myself to do the research before reacting though.

I typically react quickly with credulousness (I'm a sucker -- I'll believe it), stop myself, disbelieve it, demand proof, adopt a wait-and-see attitude, bounce the idea off people I respect, think about it, and then draw conclusions. I'm trained to be suspicious.

So what's got me fretting?

This question: Is Senomyx the new Soylent Green?

I think I'm ready to answer that question ... coming soon.

Dr. Suess Does Star Wars

Art, Son of Adam has a great series of cartoons that depict What If Dr. Suess Had Thought of Star Wars?
He really nailed the Suess style and made me chuckle. Suess doing Star Wars? Totally believable -- On Beyond Zebra!

Check out the whole series here.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival #96-97

This week on Sunday Snippets, WBN presents: A little Dab'll Do Ya. 
The whole last couple of weeks have been light due to the birth of #6. He's worth it!

• A Little Dab'll Do Ya
• Things That Irk Me 
• Pound Of Cure

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Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival is a weekly opportunity to share your best posts with the wider Catholic blogging community.

To participate, create a post highlighting posts that would be of interest to Catholics and link to the host blog at http://rannthisthat.blogspot.com. Go to the host blog and leave a comment giving a link to your post

Things You Don't Want To Hear

Today was an extremely windy day, with wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. The building I work in is only a four story structure that is wider than it is tall, and I'm on the top floor.

After a particularly strong and sustained gust I turned to my coworker and asked, "Is it me, or is the building swaying? I think I felt my desk move."

He said, "It's not you."

Yikes.

Pound Of Cure

The saying goes: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But what happens when the cure isn't much better than the ailment?

Mrs. Nod, Nub, and I got a green cold that was particularly unpleasant. The girl Nodlings: Blynken, Nod-girl, and Nib are down with the flu. Poor Nib has pink eye to boot -- nasty stuff that. We're trying desperately hard to keep them all away from the baby, Dab.

The doctor offered us Tamiflu for the flu bug, but the side effects are supposedly pretty nasty, including nausea, dizziness, vomiting, and confusion/suicidal tendencies (mostly in Asians, don't ask me why). If the disease makes you feel sick, but the medicine makes you feel cruddy or worse -- is there a benefit here?

The doctor also said that Elderberry juice has been shown to have both anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. That's available relatively inexpensively at Whole Foods with no known side effects.

The bookworm, Wynken, is currently unscathed by any of these maladies because he keeps away from the girls and doesn't have to wipe snotty toddler noses.

I'm thinking of just continuing to bunker down the Nod-ettes in the isolation ward with a bottle of Elderberry juice and a stack of movies as long as your arm until the plague passes.