Try Not To Eat Your Screen

You don't even want to see what he'll do if you tell him Jesus wasn't born in December.

I wanted to give you all some reading before the crush of the holidays begins to hit. I'm sick, so don't expect much wit.

-This is a piece from Discover that looks at a group of scientists  on the verge of uncovering just where scizhophrenia comes from. Their description:

Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA.

Scary, but interesting, stuff.

-This is a piece from The Washington Post by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. It is an answer to Sarah Palin's suggestion that religion should actually be a part of government. As long as it's her religion, of course.

-Christopher Hitchens may be dying of cancer, but that isn't stopping him from writing, and boy, does he rip The Tea Party and Glenn Beck a new one here.

-Doughnut Plant is amazing. If you don't like Doughnut Plant, we can't be friends, simple as that. They just posted a new gallery of photos, which you can find here. Be careful not to try and eat your screen.

-As 2010 begins to end, we will surely be inundated with lists proclaiming "The Best _____ of 2010." Here's one worth paying attention to though--Roger Ebert's 10 best movies of '10.

That's all for now, maybe even until the New Year.

Have a happy and a healthy.
JS