Why so immature, Billy?

Here, take this pill and grow up:

In a 2010 study in the Journal of Health Economics, researchers found that the youngest children among U.S. kindergartners (those born in August) were 40% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and twice as likely to take ADHD medications as the oldest kindergartners studied (those born in September). Similar results were found in a study of children ages 6 to 12 published this year in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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It’s Always about the Process

What is it John Gormley says about the left and process? Delay, obstruct, destroy.

“When I started this I was anti-stadium, but I’ve changed my outlook on it. I’ve been listening to people and I think the consensus is that people want (a new stadium), they just don’t want this. There needs to be a dialogue here, with the process and with the funding model.”

Shorter Dawn: I’m getting ridiculed for being a wing-nut.
If you’re going to the game tonight against the BC Felions, please respect the trash and don’t feed the hippies.

Whatever happened to the outrage?

Remember the widespread anger about the amount of warrantless wiretapping that went on during the years of the Bush administration? Remember the constant drumbeat of dire warnings about this egregious violation of the Constitution, and the media’s reminders of widespread public opposition, and the calls for Bush’s impeachment?
It’s safe to say now, in retrospect, that he was really being accused of governing while Republican.

Reader Tips

Tonight, in the interest of hopefully preventing widespread outbreaks of rioting and arson by Andy Williams fans, we present what many to consider to be his signature tune: Moon River.
Now please, return to your homes and calm down.
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Reader Tips

French entertainer Charles Aznavour has written over 1,000 songs over the course of his long career. Tonight, we listen to a song of his that rested comfortably in the French until it was subsequently co-written/translated by English-language lyricist Dee Shipman, who thought it would be a good idea (she explains herself here) to translate a particular word literally. The results speak for themselves, in English: Here’s ….that song.
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