Big Scares and Bad Days

A report has come out saying that the big AIDS scare for heterosexuals was just that, a scare. There was never any explosion of cases in straight people, as the scientists and journalists said there would be. Personally, I enjoy what James Taranto in today's Best of the Web Today over at WSJ online:

The AIDS epidemic that wasn't is one reason we are skeptical of global warmism, another purported cataclysm that is supposedly just around the corner, that is purportedly based on science but about which one may not ask questions, and that dovetails conveniently with pre-existing ideological agendas.

Ten or 20 years hence, will we be reading articles about the U.N. admitting that global warming wasn't all it was cracked up to be? Let's hope so.

Of course, now thare's a huge gap to be filled, so a new scare has emerged:

Study: 1 in 4 Adults in NYC Have Herpes Virus

Ugh...what's sex without a little fear, eh?

On the other hand, you could this guy:
















I saw this on my drive home this evening. You know it's a bad day when your tow truck needs a tow truck.

Thanks for reading along.