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Study: Strep May Have Killed Mozart

Tony — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:31:12 +0000

Researchers from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands have announced that they believe that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have died from a strep throat infection at the age of 35 in 1791.

In a slightly less formal study I did, I found that no one cares. Nor should they.

And I can only hope that no government agency funded the research that led to this conclusion.

I’m all for studying and learning from history–especially if it leads us to not make mistakes, or go through situations we have in the past. But studying what killed one guy over 200 years ago? Especially when you will never conclusively prove anything? What good does that do?

Hilton Memorized Classic Dialogue…

Tony — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:03:21 +0000

Somehow, it made the ‘Entertainment News’ section on Yahoo–Paris Hilton memorized her lines for the spoof ad that was posted on Funny or Die this week. I’m gonna go ahead and say that the video falls more on the ‘Die’ side than the Funny side. And the fact that her memorizing her lines makes news is almost as dumb as I heard a story on the news today talk about who “produced” the video (or the fact that it was even made).

At least they had the good sense to not pay her for her “work” in the video.

Nothing Says Patriotism Like a Ton of Cheese

Tony — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:05:48 +0000

Nothing says Patriotism like a ton of cheese, carved into a rendition of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Especially with an ad for Cheez-It right on the front–I’m pretty sure that was one of the biggest contentions of the whole debate. Jefferson was a Cheez-It guy, but Ben Franklin wanted Cheetos. And John Hancock wanted one of those big tubs of cheeze balls from Sam’s Club.

Need to Sell Your House? Turn to Adult Friend Finder.

Tony — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:21:29 +0000

If I’m reading this right, this 42-year-old single mother in Florida wants to find true love–as long as true love happens to be willing to pay $340,000 for her house in a crappy economy. Which she would in theory be able to still live in, with true love.

Oh, and give her $500,000 on top of it, to cover her “companionship”. Because nothing says “True Love” like whoring yourself for a half million dollars.

Apparently she’s had more than 500 people contact her too, some saying she’s selling herself short. No word on if one of those was Dennis Hof.

The smartest person in the article? Her 14-year-old daughter, who realizes that this is just embarrasing. Probably doesn’t help her life that people like me will blog about it, either.