New findings on marijuana’s damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say. source

LESBIANS are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for obesity-related health problems and death, US researchers said. source Thanks, Andy Melton

EVERY year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards prizes for the best papers presented at its annual conference. Last year’s winner in the nuclear and future flight category went to a paper calling for experimental tests of an astonishing new type of engine. According to the paper, this hyperdrive motor would propel a […]

NEW YORK Tucked inside Frank Rich’s Sunday column in the New York Times is indication that the newspaper will no longer attend the annual White House Correspondents Association dinners in Washington, which he calls “a crystallization of the press’s failures in the post-9/11 era.” He writes that the event “illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White […]

Is the US Already at War With Iran? | Alternative News Sources: According to an April 3rd piece published by ABC News, the United States is backing a Pakistani tribal group called “Jundullah,â€? or, “the Army of God,â€? in what ABC calls a “secret war against Iran.â€? The group operates in a region called “Baluchistan,â€? […]

source But Dan Rather, the former CBS anchor, admits, “I don’t think there is any excuse for, you know, my performance and the performance of the press in general in the roll up to the war…We didn’t dig enough. And we shouldn’t have been fooled in this way.” Bob Simon, who had strong doubts about […]

The United States is a violent nation. Yes, so are some other countries in the world, but few can hold a candle to the US’s capacity and performance when it comes to using violence to kill mass amounts of people over the past… lets say 5 to 50 years. I’m talking about Nuclear Bombs, napalm, […]

http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof042307/yr575sirius.mp3 Madge discusses the enormous fat ass that was located next to her on the plane from NYC to Floridturd. Madge talks about how fat people should be banned from airplanes. Madge sides with Don Imus because she too is a nappy headed whore. http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof042307/yr576sirius.mp3 Madge talks about Tristan from Podcamp NYC, Dagomatic’s podcasts, the […]

World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz faced a fight for his political life yesterday after the development lender’s directors demolished his defense in a favoritism scandal surrounding his girlfriend. As calls mounted for the former US deputy defense secretary to resign, the 24 executive directors issued a statement that left Wolfowitz squarely isolated heading into a […]

Marianne Williamson on Imus’ lynching. I agreee with her by the way. The women of the Rutgers basketball team, simply by their existence, say it all. All of them are beautiful. All of them are high achievers. The very fact that they exist prove Imus’ comments to be absurd and stupid. I was all for […]

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few — the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. And what is this bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. […]

Peter van Dijck: MySpace, founded by rather ruthless marketeers and now owned by Murdoch, never had much ethics. Now they’re blocking Photobucket, a company that embeds a LOT of pictures and videos on Myspace pages. Is this when MySpace will finally become uncool?

http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof041607/yr571sirius.mp3 Madge gives the gift of obscure domain names. Also, Madge critiques the latest presidential speeches, plunges the toilet, and cleans as she prepares to leave Chicago for Podcamp NYC. http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof041607/yr573sirius.mp3 Madge arrives in NYC. She’s at Shishaldin’s house in Brooklyn and arranges her weekend while taking calls from Cheryl Merkowski and Lady Bunny as […]

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Monday, April 9, 2007 http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof040907/YR564.mp3 Madge talks about taxes, the iran situation, neoconservatives, and fat people getting the heimlich manoever. Wed., April 11, 2007 http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof040907/yr567sirius.mp3 Special Madge MashUp special for the sirius audience. Lots of strange music put together in strange but disturbing ways. Sat, April 14 2007 http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof040907/yr569.mp3 This is the audio of a […]

La Vache Qui Lit: The expression “fearless speech” is a rough translation of the Greek parrhesia, which designates those who take a risk to tell the truth; the citizen who has the moral qualities required to speak the truth, even if it differs from what the majority of people believe and faces danger for speaking […]