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" (Permanent Musical Accompaniment For The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog&amp;#039;s Second-Favorite Canadian.) Well, it seems that the cosmos got a little more interesting, and far tastier, this week. Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it would taste vaguely of raspberries. The unanticipated discovery follows years of work by astronomers who trained their 30m radio telescope on the enormous ball of dust and gas in the hope of spotting complex molecules that are vital for life. Finding amino acids in interstellar space is a Holy Grail for astrobiologists, as this would raise the possibility of life emerging on other planets after being seeded with the molecules. Given this discovery, we must build upon the earlier breakthrough by the scientists of the Firesign Theater, who taught us that A Mighty Hot Dog Is Our Lord, and conclude that the universe is a Pop Tart. (Are those my cues?) I haven&amp;#039;t had much to say about the Oscar nominations because I&amp;#039;m still in mourning over the hosing given to Moonrise Kingdom, which I liked more than any other movie I&amp;#039;d seen in a couple of years. Too odd, I guess. (Which also is why Cloud Atlas vanished, I suspect.) I also think both James Spader \u2014 whom I didn&amp;#039;t recognize until my son pointed out, &amp;quot;What role would James Spader have in this movie?&amp;quot; \u2014 and the great David Straithairn got robbed a bit for Lincoln. All I know about Amour is that my local moviehouse has been running previews for it since approximately 1999. I am very happy for Searching For Sugarman, but the drug has not yet been invented that can make me care one way or another about Life Of Pi. I am glad Daniel Day-Lewis is such a lock because that means we are spared another Joaquin Phoenix speech about what a drag it all is being famous and shit. And is anyone as surprised as I am that Amy Adams now has been nominated four times? She&amp;#039;s come a long way since she was driving Josh, and Toby, and Donna around Indiana in the diesel pick-up. I see where Nate Silver, who is always right, has picked a New England-Seattle Super Bowl. Suppressing my feeling that Nate is just fking with people like Joe Scarborough now, I can see the New England half of that happening, but not until we all come through a possible Tom-and-Peyton tsunami in the AFC championship game, but I can&amp;#039;t see Seattle winning two road playoff games in a row, especially if the second one is in Green Bay in January, even if Al Gore is correct about that climate thing. It appears that the Republican effort to reconnect with women voters is proceeding splendidly. Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey, who actually is an OB/GYN, comes to the belated aid of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, two misunderstood leaders of the past. But then (Akin) went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman&amp;#039;s body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. He&amp;#039;s partly right on that...And I&amp;#039;ve delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, &amp;#039;Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don&amp;#039;t be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.&amp;#039; So he was partially right wasn&amp;#039;t he? But the fact that a woman may have already ovulated 12 hours before she is raped, you&amp;#039;re not going to prevent a pregnancy there by a woman&amp;#039;s body shutting anything down because the horse has already left the barn, so to speak. And yet the media took that and tore it apart.&amp;quot; Thank you, Dr. Gingrey, but my horses and my barn are none of your damn business. Be back Monday with the customary gobshitery. Have a great weekend and play nice, ya bastids, or I&amp;#039;m sending Rocky Rococo around to your place with...a brown paper bag. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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