Category Archives: Ick

Wash Your Damn Hands, Part I Can’t Count That High (Again)

Posted on October 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

We’re getting worse at washing our hands. And guys, your penis is a loaded weapon–in a bad way.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Ick, Influenza, Microbiology, MRSA, Public Health, Vaccination | 12 Comments

Beware the Icky Algae

Posted on August 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

First, gooseshit everywhere. Now ‘rock snot.’
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Posted in Algae, Environment, Ick | 1 Comment

Abortion Is Icky and Slutty

Posted on June 5, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve never understood Reverend Cutler’s position: as long as women can get pregnant, some will think the most ethical decision based on their own individual circumstances is to get ‘unpregnant.’ Given this reality (after all, countries where abortion is illegal still have “decisions for abortion”), we will never reduce abortions to “zero.” So, then, the issue is what number of abortions is acceptable, or more accurately, which abortions are acceptable.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Ick, Religion | 6 Comments

Never Go to a Chinese Restaurant…

Posted on June 5, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…and order anything that comes with “assorted meats.” You see…
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Posted in A Fungus Among Us, Fish, Humor, Ick | 9 Comments

The Bestest Science Article EVAH! (The Five Second Rule)

Posted on April 3, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

You can’t go wrong with the title “Residence time and food contact time effects on transfer of Salmonella
Typhimurium from tile, wood and carpet: testing the five-second rule.” And it only gets better.
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Posted in Humor, Ick, Microbiology | 5 Comments

What’s Wrong With 26% of Americans?

Posted on October 10, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

That’s what GrrlScientist asks about the 26% who don’t think Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert should resign and/or lose the Speakership over Foleygate.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Ick | 1 Comment

The GOP Child Predator Act of 1999

Posted on October 6, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Well, that’s not what it was called. I had forgotten that, in 1999, the Republican leadership opposed legislation that would have outlawed ongoing sexual slavery in the American terrority of Saipan.
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First Al-Queda, Now…

Posted on October 1, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Al-NAMBLA? driftglass explains:
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Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Ick, Pig Screwer | 2 Comments

Republican Corruption Involving a Minor

Posted on September 30, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Rep. Mark Foley resigned yesterday because he sexually propositioned a sixteen year-old congressional page. That’s awful enough–well, that and Foley was the Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, but what’s even worse is that the House Republican leadership knew about this for months and did nothing.
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Posted in Ick | 4 Comments