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November 25, 2008
Category: Personal
Urge to kill fading... fading... fading... Last micro test today. Just finished writing my final paper. No more Type III Secretion Systems. No more god forsaken 'Listeria' and 'Salmonella' and 'EHEC'. All I have left is three weeks of virology....
Posted by ERV at 10:06 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2008
Category: Theism
Gosh golly. November 14th some good ol Evangelical kids were minding their own business, praising His name on a Friday night on Castro Street. In front of a memorial set up for Hank Wilson-- A much loved HIV/AIDS, gay rights...
Posted by ERV at 6:15 PM • 75 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Hi girls! **waves excitedly** Its a big day, right? YAY! I know you all are totally pepped up, and I dont want to be a Debbie Downer again... but well... see, when I was your alls age, 12-ish, I was...
Posted by ERV at 1:45 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2008
Category: Atheism
Journalists and journalism shouldnt exist anymore. Theyre no longer relevant. In todays world of Twitters and Bloggers and YouTubers-- there is no point in getting a 'degree' to be a journalist, when we all have the capabilities of being 'civilian'...
Posted by ERV at 10:00 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2008
Category: Creationism
Holy crap... ... Its a disaster, you guys... ... The TARDmine... its collapsed... ... The carnage... its killed Dembski and DaveTard... ... Denyse has sustained severe head trauma... ... BarryA is the only one left alive... There is no god......
Posted by ERV at 1:51 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: HIV/AIDS
Ive totally been a Debbie Downer lately. I dont mean to be, its just that I really friggen hate it when main-stream media trumpets the latest, greatest 'CURE FOR AIDS OMFG'-- and then 10 years later scientists have to explain...
Posted by ERV at 12:15 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2008
Category: PUPPY!
Carivintas Winery, along with Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (the folks looking after the pups Michael Vick tortured) have released a line of 'Vicktory Wine'-- Bottles of 'boutique' booze with 10% going to Best Friends. So if youre in the mood...
Posted by ERV at 10:15 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2008
Category: HIV/AIDS
Oh for Petes sake. *sigh* Okay, there are two potential targets for an HIV-1 vaccine: 1-- The envelope protein. Its the only HIV-1 protein that your antibodies can see. Antibodies can prevent the viruses from attaching to your cells. 2--...
Posted by ERV at 10:20 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2008
Category: Theism
Ray Comfort NEEDS YOUR HELP! A publisher has asked if I can suggest someone to give a me Foreword for my new book, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think. Any takers? If we...
Posted by ERV at 12:15 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: HIV/AIDS
File this under "Whoa thats cool! But its not really a realistic solution for the AIDS pandemic." It sounds like a cruel joke, but HIV patients have increased odds of developing leukemias and lymphomas. These cancers arent necessarily directly related...
Posted by ERV at 9:00 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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