Tongue in cheek? Or foot in mouth?

When I am not busy doodling on the internetz, I do some work editing college and grad school application essays. Sometimes, I have charming and helpful correspondence with the clients. When I get lucky, they send me emails like this:

“Sorry about that. Typos pleague my life.”

Yes, they certainly do.

smoke your pot, it’s good for you

Good news aging flower-children: pot is good for your brain. (Maybe.)

A study from the Scripps Research Institute came out last week saying that the active ingredient in marijuana (THC) could be a really powerful inhibiter of Alzheimer’s disease.

It works like this – THC inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (very cutely dubbed AChE). AChE helps special Alzheimer’s plaque form in the brain. So, brain + pot = no plaque (or a lot less of it). THC turns out to work a lot better at restraining AChE production than the AChE-inhibiting drugs that are currently on the market. The one little snaggle still to be worked out is that nobody knows if the Alzheimer’s plaque is a cause of cognitive problems or a symptom.

Who knew that something that makes you lose your memory and impairs cognition could later on keep you from losing your memory and having impaired cognition?

and the Irony Award goes to….

Former Congressman Mark Foley, for this comment, made in 1998 referring to Bill Clinton:

Maf54: Do I make you a little horny?
Teen: A little.
Maf54: Cool.
Maf54: What ya wearing?
Teen: tshirt and shorts
Maf54: Love to slip them off of you.

Oh, oops. Sorry, that wasn’t the Congressman’s ironic comment on President Clinton, that was an excerpt from his racy IM chats with a congressional page. My bad. By the way, props to Foley for adhering to the rules of punctuation and capitalization while internet chatting. Oh yeah, here’s the quote I was looking for:

(from a 1998 interview in The St. Petersburg Times)
“It’s vile.  It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.” 

It sure is, Congressman. Or, can I call you Maf54?