Right now we need to be taxed to the hilt.

A great light in journalism has gone out. Last week Daniel Schorr died at a Washington hospital at 93. He had had a long and illustrious career, starting covering post-war stories in 1946 and ending doing news analysis pieces for National Public Radio until just a few weeks ago.

There was an interesting piece on NPR the other day about Toxoplasma Gondii. It was an interview with Dr. Robert Yolken, a Neuro-virologist from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. T. Gondii is a member of a strange class of parasites that affect a host’s behavior in order to reproduce, usually killing the host in the process. [...]