Oops.

See, this is what happens when I fail to activate my disbelief because it's the BBC.

Sorry.

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Curse you, neurologists and epidemiologists, for not providing the exact studies that I need!

Curse you, hospital and university libraries, for not carrying the journals that do contain the exact studies that I need!

Curse you all! Curse yooooooouuuuu!*

*and me, for sometimes coming across the information that I need but failing to recognize that I will need it until I've moved on and it's too late. Look, I have hundreds of references here, what do you want from me?

breaking the vow one more time:

Just yesterday Molly Ivins was predicting that next week would see the launch of a massive PR campaign to convince Americans that Social Security is a massive millstone and that it would be a good idea to privatize it.

I missed it at first with the beat-the-trade-deficit-by-buying-American quote, but it looks like she was off by a week.

"The best thing we can do from the executive branch of government in America," Bush said, "is work with Congress to deal with our deficits. One deficit is a short-term budget deficit. Another deficit is the unfunded liabilities that come with Social Security and some of the health programs for the elderly."

He said Social Security was at the top of his agenda.

I'm a little creeped out now.