Double standard

"Four decades after the birth control pill became available to women, researchers at the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center are working to develop a similar contraceptive for men.

"The researchers plan to test about a half-million chemical compounds to find a pill that does not involve hormones that men could take weekly or monthly. They also hope to find something that is close to 100 percent effective and has no risky side effects."

Great idea-- and when you're done with that, can you develop something that good for women??

Attack of the Giant Popsicle!

Sometimes it's enough to just read the title of an article:

Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods New York Park

But then again, reading the whole article can bring its own rewards:

"What was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming," Stuart Claxton of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News. "It was quite a lot of fluid. On a hot day like this, you have to move fast."

Astronomy alert

Cool planetary alignment coming up this weekend-- Mercury, Venus and Saturn will be very close together at sunset on Saturday and will get closer on Sunday and Monday. Keep an eye out!

Yo' mama!

Oh dear. Talking trash is one thing, but is it really necessary to drag Dean's poor mom into it?