My cup of Joe has pieces of waffle in it

I was looking for something a bit more substantial on the latest vacillations of Senator Grandstander (I-Aetna), but I suppose this will have to do for now.

Seriously, though: is Lieberman trying to set a new record for coming off as a complete tool to as many people as possible in as short a time as possible?

Zombie voiceover: "I understand all, now..."

Well, I got my H1N1 shot yesterday and no extremities fell off. Sorry about eating all those random cats on the way back home, though...

For those of you who feel as snarky towards anti-vaccinationists as I do, Orac offers up this recent pearl of wisdom.

And for those of you feeling particularly paralogical, this is irrefutable proof that innoculation against illnesses will make the Chicago Bears play lousy and lose despite having no real reason to - other than being lousy, of course.

Well, there's a shock and a half for you

I'm surprised that it actually took this long:

Courtney Love finally lost legal guardian rights over her daughter Frances; normally, this wouldn't be of much interest to me, but I find it sort of amusing that this didn't happen after any of C-Love's earlier public meltdowns or even some of the ones that occurred while Kurt was alive.

Obviously, the mixed bag that was Nirvana makes this subject matter a lot more relevant to me than any other bit of celebutant nonsense normally would: although I greatly admired Kurt Cobain's ability to craft a melodic hook that would stick itself deep into your memory and never come out, the threesome from Aberdeen, WA were symbolic of both the successes and failures the Seattle grunge scene had. Massive, long-term appeal among rock fans and the potential for more in the offing fit into the former category; death-wish level drug abuse and band-killing emotional dysfunction fit in the latter. There were bands from Sea-Tac that I liked better (Soundgarden and Alice in Chains before Layne Staley's own heroin addiction enervated them) or who made more money (Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters, both of whom are even more mixed bags in terms of musical output than Nirvana ever was), but Kurt's dysfunctional soap opera cast a massive - and entirely undeserved - shadow over the scene that it never recovered from. And although I don't want to turn this into a typical Yoko Ono diatribe, his wife didn't help one damn bit. Matter of fact, she probably contributed greatly to whatever thinking spurred that fateful decision to blow his brains out. There's only so much an unstable person can take when his spouse - and the mother of his child, besides - comes off as being even crazier than he is.

Decades ago, rock scene wags were probably placing bets on when - and not if - famous burnt-out cases like Keith Richards and Iggy Pop were going to drop. Ultimately, neither did. In short, they both wised up. It's a real pity that fellow junkies like Cobain, Staley, Shannon Hoon and Andrew Wood never got that far.