wo atoms are walking down the street and they run into each other. One says to the other, “Are you all right?”
     ”No, I lost an electron.”
     ”Are you sure?”
     ”Yeah,” says the injured atom. “I’m positive.”
     Good news about Alzheimer’s Disease — and other kinds of neural degeneration, too, I’d expect. Some scientists in Massachusetts have stumbled across [...]

     elcome to the weekly Toast, where we raise our metaphorical glasses to the things that make us happy, or piss us off, to the things that impress us or let us down, to the heroes and the assholes alike. Cheers!

To the makers and users of crystal meth. Thanks to you assholes, I can’t get decent [...]

     So, I have a grand total of three (3) waitresses for my night shift. Everyone else has walked out. I would not be at all surprised to have another walk-out tonight. All I’m saying is that the gal had best get the book I loaned to her back to me, if she walks out. There [...]

      found today’s tall tale by accident — it’s a flash-animated version of some of the Paul Bunyan stories, here.
     Here’s something exceptionally cool: Gene Repair Pill. Scientists have developed a pill that apparently corrects some kinds of faulty DNA code, like the kinds of code that cause Cystic Fibrosis and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. These kinds [...]

     here were once two brothers called William and Wayne. Will was 12 years old and his little brother was 3.
     The neighbors noticed they always went around together. If William went down to the ballpark, his little brother would toddle along behind him, even if the game was a bit rough. When Wayne went to playgroup, [...]

     ‘know, I was going to try and ignore this one — I really was, but I just can’t. The day cannot progress properly until I’ve made a snippy remark about this: Low-Salt Diet Shakes Off Heart Disease. Well, no fucking shit, Sherlock. Thank-you for spending wads of money to prove and inform us of the [...]

     pider Robinson’s The Callahan Chronicles is an awesome book — I heavily suggest buying it. It is a collection of short stories set at Callahan’s Place, a Long Island pub where all sorts of amazing things happen. One of the features of Callahan’s Place is the fire place. Several feet back from the fireplace, a [...]

     ut in the big, bad world today, Alberto Gonzales is still trying to keep his job, and not having a lot of luck at it. “Most of this is a stretch,” a Republican senator, Lindsey Graham, said after listening to Mr Gonzales justify the dismissals. “It’s clear to me that some of these people just [...]

     black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the [...]

     aul Bunyan is probably one of my favorite Tall Tale heroes. Today’s tall tale, from American Folklore, is about the birth of Paul Bunyan, as retold by S. E. Schlosser.
     Now I hear tell that Paul Bunyan was born in Bangor, Maine. It took five giant storks to deliver Paul to his parents. His first bed [...]