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P.U. IQ! Sniffing your own farts could boost brain power, fend off Alzheimer's: new study Go ahead and get a good whiff of your own farts — scientists say it could help guard against Alzheimer's. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that hydrogen sulfide — the rotten egg-smelling chemical compound expelled when one breaks wind — could protect aging brain cells from cognitive decline and Alzheimer's, which is diagnosed in roughly 500,000 new patients each year in the US. "Our new data firmly link aging, neurodegeneration and cell signaling using hydrogen sulfide and other gaseous molecules within the cell," said Dr. Bindu Paul, associate professor at the prestigious medical center and co-author of the study, which was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [...] https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/health/pew-iq-sniffing-your-own-farts-boosts-brain-power-new-john-hopkins-study-suggests/

Hee hee heeeeee! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trump's Greenland Gambit Has Broken Brains Across Washington President Donald Trump may be backing down on his threat to seize Greenland, but his push for the island has already changed the way foreign policy is done in Washington and beyond. More than any other global issue I've seen Trump tackle, his obsession with Greenland has shifted paradigms and broken brains. And I'm talking about big brains: diplomats, foreign policy analysts, economic specialists. People on the left and a fair number on the right. Even diplomats not from Europe are rattled. "It was like, huh?" said an African official in Washington. "The shocking part was the level of the threat, how serious he was. And it's not over." [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-greenland-gambit-broken-brains-010242798.html

Grandstanding Newsom's world stage flop in Davos Gov. Gavin Newsom jetted off this week to heckle President Trump at the World Economic Forum 2026 in Davos, Switzerland, ultimately failing spectacularly. It's yet another glimpse into the unserious, trolling, king-of-pulling-stunts pattern of his: grandstanding, slick preaching, hurling insults at Trump, and positioning himself as a global moral authority —- all while the state he governs descends deeper into chaos. And this guy wants to be president? [...] https://nypost.com/2026/01/21/opinion/grandstanding-newsoms-world-stage-flop-in-davos/

Wow. Any argument to contest this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relive The Civil Rights Era. Send in The Troops In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day this week, every liberal made the totally original point that anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis are walking in King's footsteps! King protested—and they're protesting. See? Same thing. In any liberal morality play, Democrats always get to be the shivering, oppressed black people, while Republicans have to play the part of Bull Connor, Birmingham, AL's racist commissioner of public safety. Except the facts are exactly the opposite. I'm sure you're bored of hearing this, but Connor was a Democrat, as were all the politicians promising "massive resistance" to racial integration. Republicans were the ones forcing Democrats to abide by federal law, along with a few John Fetterman-style Democrats. But the biggest fraud the media is trying to push on America is their total erasure of the most heroic actions ever taken by U.S. presidents: invoking the Insurrection Act and sending troops to the states to enforce federal law against protesting Democratic governors and individual citizens. [...] https://www.theamericanconservative.com/relive-the-civil-rights-era-send-in-the-troops/

Thrilling Thursday report, see man: Lousy overnight zzz, man. We really need to return to our HSM and not the doctor's, conclude we and our kidneys be hanged man. Breakfast/lunch was 2 ham-&-cheese sandwiches, ingest we man. Highlight of day was fielding aysheep calls from Mama T-B., frantic senior she man man. She's aysheep of running out of incontinence supplies, aysheep senior she man man. She won't let us buy any for her to tide her over, no man. She'd rather wait (but can't wait) for some to be delivered, man. She's seriously going to worry herself to death, in her lifelong personality already man. We furthermore got called by Uncle T-B., senior he man call we man man. He's fascinated with an inpatient place that treats lymphadema + cellulitis, man. We did this in a similar place already back in May-June, horrible man. He doesn't understand that nothing will improve if he doesn't take part in self-care, man. He waits on noosers et al. to treat & bathe his legs, no contribution from his own self man. We told him last time that if his condition returns to what it was, he's on his own, grrrr man. Instead, we're being roped into the same infernal thing as before, man. We can't handle TWO inpatients, run off screaming into the night we man. And the nooser from this new inpatient place wants to give us a sales pitch, forget it man. Retrieved Mini-B. for Two Guys eve, Two Guys wee and we man man. Din-din was from Subway*, ingest Two Guys man. *WUOC + gift cards, F$WM We are now out of Subway coupons, we man. After din-din, we & Mini-B. wrapped our outdoor faucets, wrap-artists Two Guys man. Movie night was El Camino, watch Two Guys man. Many (2+2) bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys and apply to next week's tally man. During movie, Mama T-B. called us Many (2+2) -- si man, Many (2+2) -- times, man. After off-dropping Mini-B., went to nearby supermarket, need stuff and curious we man man. Place was quite busy and some shelves bare, to be expected before a freeze man. We got half a Manyzen Gatorade Zero grapes, fridge nearly restocked with same man. Also got 2 Hungry Man din-dins and (the last) 2 Marie Callender beef pot pies**, prep for Two Guys week man. **on sale, serendipitous man Returned to needy miu, Treat Brush Play With Me Daddy miu man. Miu is also fascinated by something in our office wastebasket, nothing beyond the usual there man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. We have itineraried 2 ESs for Friday, itinerary we man. One is in Favorite Medium-Sized Town, waiting for it we man. If, as expected, Mama T-B. remains too aysheep, we can re-itinerary 2 more-local ESs, sigh man. Otherwise, latter can be done Saturday, optimal but pessimistic about this we man. And that was/is our thrilling Thursday, report we man.

Being serious for a fleeting moment, see man: Best results during & after the big storm/freeze/mess, si man.

What a relief for you. Congratulations!

Congratulations!

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, si man! (Uh, whoops man...) --- Seriously, how frustrating, Bro G man. And how frustrating for Bro CC and for our inferior primate*, gosh man. *who can fling poo in frustration when locked out, whee man

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