no, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth

I've been on vacation in the UP, and then I've been trying to catch up on Livejournal. I had to skip 300 to go back to the last post I hadn't read!

( four things lemming )

I'll write a post of more substance later. Maybe. I'm feeling reeeeaaalllly lazy having been on vacation since noon of last Friday.

Vaccine/autism non-link

I've argued with people on-line about the supposed link between vaccines/mercury and autism, but have never been able to put together such a coherent Question-Answer response as tacit does here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tacit/170918.html?#cutid1

Good discussion in the comments, too!

"friending"

A few people have friended me recently, and I have been out of town and haven't had a chance to friend you back-- so please take no offense. I usually like to read a bit of your journal before adding you back. If you're rabidly anti-fat or a fundamentalist Christian, I'm unlikely to add you back, for instance. But I'm always flattered when people friend me!