Autism Awareness is Important

but damn, CNN, you gotta cool your jets. Top 3 stories (1 - 2 - 3) (at 11:30 today) all on autism? Isn't there other important stuff going on today? Or any other day? I mean, yeah, your Health page is littered with autism related articles which is fine. Autism is a hot topic in Health-related news. But do you know what else is important? Shit that you buried like we might be going into a recession or the release of the torture memo or even some good news like we might be getting some military help in Afghanistan. I shouldn't blame it all on CNN's fixation with autism. Other stories that trumped that follow the lines of The Banshee Whore out sells the King and there's a really big dog. Serious, that's all there really is to the story. The dog is really big. You know, like really, really, really big. But, still, it's not like it ate a horse.

So where was I . . . . oh yeah, autism and CNN.

If you go to CNN's Health Page, nestled 'twixt two blog entries by the good Doctor Gupta addressing (you guessed it) autism, there's an article on McCain's health. Is McCain autistic? Gupta's inconclusive on that, but from my nonmedical opinion I think it would explain a lot. Check out the symptoms. Repeating phrases, odd play, acting as if deaf, not wanting to cuddle, throwing excessive tantrums, having no fear of dangerous situations . . . . Still, not the point I was going to make. So Gupta decides that he can diagnose McCain's health based on 8 year old records and visual evidence. Kind of like Senator Frist, but McCain's not in a persistent vegetative state.

Here's an important line from Dr. Gupta's blog entry regarding McCain's health, particularly in response to McCain's cancer. Some doctors said that the scars on the left side of his face that were left from surgery to remove the cancer were much larger than would be needed for the type/severity of cancer that McCain has disclosed. "Other doctors disagree, saying McCain’s aggressive operation may have been done out of an abundance of caution, where doctors removed more lymph nodes and other tissue than is normally done, because he is, well, John McCain." In other words, if you're not John McCain, your doctor might not very well be all that cautious to remove all the cancer from your head. Cause you're not John McCain. Chump.

Now, for being such good readers I give you two gifts:


the Gupta Squad, coming to ABC this Fall!


Apparently there's (another?) Sanjay Gupta who's a director and this is an actress from his film, "Koena Mitra wear[ing] an arabic styled dress consisting of loose coins."