Friday morning haha!

Over at Respectful Insolence, Orac had posted a rather amusing entry about an Olmsted article that was something along the lines of a friend of a friend of a friend talked to some HHS dude who said the knew mercury caused autism.  Big fat eyeroll on that.  Anyway, some of the comments were mocking this and were quite amusing, but this one from Jolene Jolene almost made me fall out of my chair:

my ex-sister-in-law's third cousin-twice removed lives right next door to this Dr. Jay guys' talent agent and is able to lip read totally fluently. She said that she say the agent said that Dr. Jay has accepted an offer from MTV to do a totally sick reality TV series. It's going to be called "Pimp My Baby's Vaccine Schedule." My sources are totally reliable, why would they make up something like this? The other news I heard was that MTV also made an offer to David Kirby for his own show, tentatively called, "Pimp My Community's Odds of Suffering an Epidemic of a Vaccine Preventable Disease Which Could Kill Many Babies and Children and Those with Compromised Immune Systems." 

Links to the absurd

• A blogger subpoenaed: Kathleen's Neurodiversity blog has been served.  (Curtsy to PalMD.)  ETA: Liz has a list of blogs addressing this issue and her take on it (she's listed in the subpoena).  Also check out the slightly longer version of my thoughts on this.
• An "All time ass-whooping" for science?  See also Orac's er, um, comments about his broken irony meter.
  
• Disgruntled Julie has a post about PIs being a little nutso.  (Of course, I have some much more hair-raising tales, but those will come in time.)
• Really, how do people take Jenny McCarthy seriously?  I read somewhere a few weeks ago that she had posted some sort of call to action video on YouTube.  Not thinking clearly, I searched her name on YouTube.  You can imagine the types of things I turned up...
• And because I was trained from birth to be a Braves fan: 

Expelled from Expelled

Check out this entry over at Pharyngula.  Laugh as hard as I did.  Enjoy!