Bargain basement prices on Mary Cheney's tome

Hey Russ

Thought you'd be interested in this bit of science news:

Vaporizing cannabis leaves instead of burning them can release the drug's active ingredient just as effectively - while avoiding the harmful toxins inhaled through smoking the drug, according to a pilot study. ...

Donald Abrams of the University of California, San Francisco, and his team decided to investigate the benefits of the 'Volcano', a commercially available vaporizer. The device heats marijuana leaves to a temperature between 180 and 200 °C so that THC is released from oils on the surface of the leaf but no actual combustion takes place.

Previous studies have shown that harmful toxins released through smoking cannabis such as carbon monoxide, benzene and a host of compounds known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (many of which are known carcinogens) are not produced by such devices.

The original research article is here.

hm, I had some other open thread things...  maybe I'll post those in a bit.  More work to do first though.

Electricity's for light bulbs!

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by: n8nyc @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 09:42:21 AM CDT

Not interested.

Let the book sit in the bargin basement bin.  I'm not interested.

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As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
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by: Autumn Sandeen @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 11:37:04 AM CDT

Russ is on

Russ in on the air and talking about religion.

Also, I'm with Autumn.  I won't be purchasing the book.

Electricity's for light bulbs!

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by: n8nyc @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 12:04:05 PM CDT

Good mulch

I need a whole bunch of sheet mulch for a beech hedge I planted about three years ago.  If I can get them for .07 apiece, even with shipping it's cheaper than what I can buy locally.  I'd buy it for that. 

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by: raybob @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 12:21:45 PM CDT

Price still not right

I would grudgingly *take* a copy of it if they gave me enough money with it that the policies of the Republican party with regards to "marriage protection" had no impact to the financial stability of my family.

In other words, I'm guessing I'll never read it.

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by: whtz @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 12:37:14 PM CDT

MoveOn

Surprisingly, MoveOn has an impeachment poll up.

Electricity's for light bulbs!

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by: n8nyc @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 12:45:39 PM CDT

Not a bargain

I am looking for a signed copy for 2 cents.

Make alot of noise. Life is short.

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by: Charley6 @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 13:40:34 PM CDT

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What is Cheney worth?

If Amazon is willing to pay me, I can find someone to take the turncoat's fishwrapper off their hands.  We could pulp  her tripe into those fake fireplace logs you buy at drugstores.  That is still too good to the fucking traitor.

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by: JoshWatermanMN @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 13:45:25 PM CDT

Mary

Of course, this Mary couldn't be the mother of Christ for the second coming.  But have you ever heard of a payoff to Big Dick?  This smells of payoff like you've never seen.

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by: tas @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 13:59:44 PM CDT

hey seven cents ain't gonna buy disposable diapers for DAMIEN

I'm hoping Mary squats out her little baster b*stard on Mother's day, it'd FREAK out Falwell, Tony Perkins and Alan Keyes...and that in turn would MAKE MY DAY!

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by: underbear1 @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 14:01:36 PM CDT

Hey the kid hasn't done anything yet!

Lots of wonderful people have had horrible parents. Besides, your choice of words is demeaning to all lesbian mothers - and really to women generally.

Who knows, maybe having a child to care for will change Mary's perspective and convince her to think of someone other than herself for a change. It wouldn't be the first time.

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

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by: Cambridge Kid @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 14:46:35 PM CDT

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According to Reagan

The more trees destroyed to make Darthette's book, the better.  Trees cause more pollution than cars, remember? 
 

=>The truth usually isn't pretty. Don't blame me for telling it.<=

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by: Chadster @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 14:53:46 PM CDT

Yeah, but

His Secretary of the Interior (James Watt I think?) said not to worry because before we can destroy the earth Jeebus will be coming back in a cloud.

Maybe we could throw all the unsold copies in the rivers so that he gets here faster!

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

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by: Cambridge Kid @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 15:19:24 PM CDT

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Worse Contamination of Fish?

Mercury or Mary's book? 

=>The truth usually isn't pretty. Don't blame me for telling it.<=

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by: Chadster @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 16:29:48 PM CDT

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It's all very well to mock the book's failure--

But she got a reported million dollars advance for the book.  Simon & Schuster won't remotely earn that back and the book won't earn out, but she got paid big bucks for her dishonesty and nastiness, and spread both in the media while promoting the book. Her publisher helped her agenda and give her a huge stage.  I wish good gay authors had that kind of publicity and backing.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 17:40:52 PM CDT

Good authors

don't always have the personal connections, access to power, and ability to trade in favors that she does.

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

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by: Cambridge Kid @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 17:44:26 PM CDT

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I know it

Believe, as a gay author with 18 books, I know that intimately.  But being gay doesn't always mean no access, since I know two authors who published with big houses, and one did very well, because of who they were sleeping with.
My point was simply (!) wishing that the world were different and that people with nothing to say, like MC, did not get a golden megaphone.

The one thing that does satisfy me about this is that she's now "box office poison" in the publishing world.  When a book tanks like that, nobody will want to publish a second book.  So she's been dished.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Sun May 13, 2007 at 08:34:34 AM CDT

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The only positive about this book

Embarrasment to King George over the "sanctity" marriage amendment to our Constitution, if the arrogant chimp can be embarassed.

Make alot of noise. Life is short.

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by: Charley6 @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 20:04:50 PM CDT

And just let me say...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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by: Ferin @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 20:53:57 PM CDT

What's with the $90 copies?

It looks like they have free rush deliveries on those (and they are also used) but don't they know that we can buy 1285 copies (only 22 if you include $3.99 for shipping each book) for that price?
Underbear1, I agree with Cambridge Kid on this one.  That is an innocent baby.  It will be born into that scary family through no fault of its own.  What becomes of him or her due to being raised by a Cheney and because of his or her character are yet to be seen.  Judge then.

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 21:02:04 PM CDT

The CHEAPIST thing available to purchase in America RIGHT NOW

Mary, Mary, Quite contrary, you are a daughter of a real DICK DAD. How Sad!!!

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by: RogernDC @ Sat May 12, 2007 at 21:03:37 PM CDT

I once heard Billy Graham say, "The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference."

Seven cents is about as indifferent as it gets.

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by: oddjob @ Sun May 13, 2007 at 21:52:01 PM CDT

Unless

it drops to a nickel, of course. :)

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by: Jami @ Mon May 14, 2007 at 11:37:39 AM CDT

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LOL!

Point taken!  ;-)

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by: oddjob @ Mon May 14, 2007 at 22:40:15 PM CDT

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