Covering is the new discrimination . Couldn’t be more true–this is exactly the feeling I get living in a “progressive,” “liberal” suburb (I wouldn’t call it discrimination, I’d call it “strongly frowned upon”):

Now a subtler form of discrimination has risen to take its place. This discrimination does not aim at groups as a whole. Rather, it aims at the subset of the group that refuses to cover, that is, to assimilate to dominant norms. And for the most part, existing civil rights laws do not protect individuals against such covering demands. The question of our time is whether we should understand this new discrimination to be a harm and, if so, whether the remedy is legal or social in nature.

I’m so guilty of covering it’s not even funny.

Great blond joke @ the Loop.

This medical blogger took a quick video of a heart and lungs from a thoracotomy in the ED . (Blood and guts warning applies.) AVI file.

Cowboys Are My Weakness , by Larry David.

A hilarious graphic about how to choose your medicine specialty from a new blog I just found. Love it.

The Karasik Conspiracy is the book that Pharma hired a ghost-writer to author about an Islamist terror plot to poison Americans who buy drugs through Canadian pharmacies.
I’m serious.

Oh crap. Coffee shortage starts in 2007 . How the hell am I supposed to do residency? (via artiloop )

Why do so many people have a fear of clowns? This is known as coulrophobia .

Double Feature Finder . Never sneak into movies!

I’m allowed because I’m a blonde. (And because I know the real answer is 5.)