Concupiscent Curds

New Orleans ministers and the Hi-Five

Here's not something you see everyday:  minister and HIV in the same sentence.  Several New Orleans ministers were tested to help raise awareness that most of us--if not all of us--should be tested for HIV.

Kudos to these ministers.  Now, if we'd simply get Da Mayor to stop being an idiot spouting off stuff about Chocolate City and vaginas, we might continue to get some positive news....

Oh, wait, Gustav is coming.

Nevermind.

More Olympic, uh, Games

The Summer Olympics have 100,000 condoms for the 10,000 Olympians.  Wow!  Either some of these  athletes are getting busy or somebody's hoarding an awful lot of rubbers.

Who is worse?

Is it the skeezer or is it the skeezer-pleaser John Edwards?

I'd say it's dead-even.

Kentucky bourbon

"German scientists revealed 13 previously undiscovered aroma compounds in Kentucky bourbon as well as old favourites such as whiskylactone."   Nature 31 July 2008.

Check out the Kentucky Bourbon Festival this September.  Sadly, I'll have to imbibe in absentia.

I've had more than a few dreams begin this way

It was no jest.  Police were called to Jester Hall at the University of Texas to help 26 cheerleaders get out of an elevator that they'd packed themselves into like sardines. 

Of course, like my real life, the cops who freed the gals didn't get a single phone number.

Another scientific shocker

Experts warn that HIV prevention measures will be offset by folks continuing risky sex behaviors. 

Sometimes science simply amazes me.

Two epitaphs

Here lie two poor Lovers, who had the mishap,
Though very chaste people, to die of a clap.

        ~ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
an unkind couplet being an Epitaph on the Stanton-Harcourt Lovers who were killed by lightning.

from The Doctor's Quotation Book, A Medical Miscellany edited by Robert Wilkins

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I wonder if the epitaph in the pic is intended for the one six feet under or for the rest of us.