Author: Mark Draughn

  • Sunday Song Lyrics – Tits On The Radio

    I haven’t done a Sunday Song Lyric in a long time, but I just recently heard a cut off the Scissor Sisters’ debut album, Scissor Sisters , and I found an insight that I have to share: Creamsicle sky while the sun sets in the west Where are the queers on the piers, heard they… Read more

  • Scattershot 2009-09-14

    Random shots around the web: Not the craziest religion I’ve ever heard about: godchuck. (Warning: Plays Music) My wife and I have had conversations like this.   Read more

  • Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.

    Nobel prize winning agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug died yesterday at the age of 95. If history is just, people a thousand years from now should still be talking about him. I wrote about him here. Read more

  • What Does the AMA Say About Forced Catheterization?

    A few days ago, when I wrote about a guy who was forcibly catheterized to test if he was driving drunk (he wasn’t) it seemed to me that this violated the requirements of medical ethics that medical procedures should only be done with the consent of the patient and for the benefit of the patient. At… Read more

  • Scattershot 2009-09-07

    Random shots around the web: Norm Pattis continues his quiet war against his former sensei. Eric Turkewitz has some interesting things to say about his wife’s ass. Fascinating discussion of medical responsibility for Michael Jackson’s death in the comments at Kevin M.D. A new book about a heroic former prosecutor being stalked by someone she… Read more