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Made an appointment for someone to look at my car's exhaust system. Goddamn, that thing is loud.

Other repairs needed soon:

* rear driver's side tire patched
* passenger side window put back on track
* windshield replaced

In other news, my chili from Wendy's isn't very meaty. False advertising.

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Ancient remedy 'shrinks cancer'

Chaparral, an evergreen desert shrub, has long been used by native Americans to treat cancer, colds, wounds, bronchitis, warts, and ringworm.

But experts dismissed its worth, and warned it could be dangerous.

Now researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have shown an extract may shrink some tumours.

Chaparral tea was widely used in the US as an alternative anti-cancer agent from the late 1950s to the 1970s.

However, the American Cancer Society said there was no proof that it was an effective treatment for cancer - or any other disease.

And the US Food and Drug Administration warned against its use after research showed it could damage the liver and the kidneys.

However, initial results from the latest study show that an extract of the shrub appears not only to be safe, but to have a positive effect.

This is totally going to suck.

Book meme (yanked from lady_babalon)

Here's how it works:
* bold those books you've read
* italicize started-but-never-finished
* add three of your own
* post to your livejournal/greatestjournal
[for fun, I'll underline those I've seen on film, but haven't read the book. I read poetry for fun, not prose. This is why I'm going to suck at this. But here goes.]

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Racist Like Me

Rooneylicious

"I don't know about you, but when I hear a statement meant to inflame gratuitous resentment of white people, I prefer that it come from a black person."