Those Distant Bells

Unable to weather the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change latest report on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change, a meteorologist broke down in tears while on phone with my wife at a boarding area in the San Francisco Airport.

He said, I've never cried because of a science report before.

He has vowed to stop flying and is considering a vasectomy so he can't have children in order to leave a lighter carbon footprint.

Having his tubes tied would be more accurate, maybe a HISterectomy and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Secretary of State John Kerry weighed in on the IPCC findings(?) -- If this isn't an alarm bell, then I don't know what one is.

Lurch should know.

You rang?

FYI -- First picture is Espera Oscar de Corti as Iron Cody Eyes, The Crying Indian.

Nuts

Men who have had a vasectomy may face an increased risk of developing a rare type of dementia marked by a steady loss of language skills, researchers said on Tuesday.

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, writing in the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, linked this male sterilization surgery to a neurological condition called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA.

Primary progressive aphasia, which affects people usually after age 50, can be mistaken for Alzheimer's disease since initial symptoms are similar. In this incurable disorder, nerve cells die in the brain region responsible for language skills.

It causes people's language capabilities to decline steadily, with symptoms such as faulty recollection of names of people and things, difficulties in speech, reading and writing, and poor comprehension.

I'm glad I never had the balls to go through it. Not that I remember anyway!

That's Nuts!

I caught a commercial today, from the Iowa Clinic I do believe, that was promoting men having a vasectomy during March Madness.

They make it seem like it's no big deal because your going to be on the couch anyway.

It gives a different meaning to the term "baller" and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Just don't be snippy if your team doesn't make the cut.

Of course that depends on their tournament seed.