Today's post brought to you by the word 'freegans'

I just read the coolest blog. It's a guy named Daniel - a retired army captain who lost his arm and suffered a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan.

He just completed his first year of med school. This summer, he's traveling around in his beat up Suburban to see the country he served.

Some quickies:

• You might be a redneck if ... There's an article about you in the local paper and the headline is:

Using a cinder block as a driver's seat not a good idea.
Especially if the car doesn't have a brake pedal

• Forget anything? Surgeons in Tokyo accidentally left a surgical towel inside a guy when they operated to treat an ulcer. It only took them 25 years to go back for it.

• Speaking of forgetting things, there's a new website called YouveBeenLeftBehind.com:

For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture, that day when -- according to Christian end times dogma -- Christians will be swept up to heaven, while doubters are left behind to suffer seven years of Tribulation under a global government headed by the Antichrist.

Since the Antichrist is currently serving as Vice President of the United States, it might be a good investment.

• For the first time since 1988, a polar bear was seen in Iceland. It was wandering around in the fog and the police shot it "for the safety of the public." And they wonder why there aren't any polar bears in Iceland. Scientists predict that 2/3 of the world's polar bear population will disappear within the next 50 years because of global warming.

• Freegans = a.k.a. anti-consumerists, freegans, frugalists or just plain Dumpster divers ... people [who] delight in drastically reducing their consumer spending, finding life’s essentials at bargain prices or paying nothing at all ... [They] live outside the conventional economic system may include hitchhiking, foraging for food and eschewing regular jobs.

• It's been exactly one week since I washed the dishes and I don't care. Well, I care a little because I'm out of clean plates and silverware.

Turn ons: Freegans and cockroaches - they'll be the only ones to survive Armageddon
Turn offs: You Can't Always Get What You Want - the fact not the song, which is playing on the radio right now

You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you just might find
You get what you need

~ the Rolling Stones