Take Ambien -- sleep drive!. (Note: Ambien is a prescription sleeping pill which is a sedative type medication, as opposed to over the counter sleeping medication which is usually just antihistamines being marketed to exploit a side effect. But you shouldn't drive after taking those, either.)

So the city of Seattle is rounding up feral rabbits from Woodland Park Zoo. If you want to adopt one or donate to the cause, there are links at the bottom of the article. If you want to make one into dinner, you are out of luck. Anyway, it's the zoo -- don't they have lots of big predators that would love to have a bunny snack? Seems like kind of a waste. Bunnies...they're not just cute like everyone supposes...

I could have written most of this rant about repeating Republican talking points about Democrats.

if you are going to write against Clinton, do so in a way that Republicans never would. Good arguments would include her being too hawkish, too insider, too centrist.

I am not going to come within several miles of working or supporting Hillary Clinton in the primaries, but I will not, ever, repeat Republican arguments about a fellow Democrat, especially when such talking points are designed to tear down Democratic leaders. We might as well just start saying that Howard Dean is an incredibly angry member of the far left who will say anything that comes to his mind, or that Al Gore is a pathological liar with no personality and nearly insane.

Note that his point is not that you have to like H.Clinton, or Dean, or Gore -- just, don't express your objections using the Republican talking points. And behold how the comments below it completely fail to grasp his point, and instead act like he is trying to claim all Democrats should celebrate Hillary's candidacy.

At last they seem to have gotten that thing about whether coffee causes heart attacks worked out. It turns out that if you have a genetic variant for processing caffeine slowly, you are more likely to have a heart attack. Otherwise, coffee is good for you!

And, we are one step closer to a world where you can run your DNA through the sequencer at the local drugstore and get a little risk profile about how dangerous smoking or fatty foods will be for you. Which is both cool and scary -- there's a lot of misuse potential

On a vaguely related note, I think a good "smoking ban" compromise would be: bars and restaurants default to being nonsmoking, but they can get smoking permits much the same way they now have to get liquor permits. Not that anybody cares what I think.

You know that gate in Jerusalem called "the eye of the needle" that they told you about in Sunday school? It doesn't exist. Seriously. That bit in Matthew about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven? It means just what it looks like it means. "Camel passing through the eye of a needle" is a figure of speech meaning a really unlikely or impossible thing. Sorry if that disturbs anybody's faith or anything. Maybe The Heyward Foundation will make it better.

Hippies have been claiming this for years, but apparently there's evidence -- Fruits and vegetables are not as nutritious as they were 50 years ago. The author of the study suspects that agricultural trends encouraging the crops that grow the fastest and biggest is a reason for the decline.