The aforementioned Superbug is hitting close to home. Here at Synthesis headquarters we have set up a quarantine around my desk because I have the immune system stamina of a 4-month old AIDS baby.

Yuba City school latest with student infection
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 11/03/2007 08:08:23 PM PDT

YUBA CITY, Calif.—A Yuba City elementary school is the latest to announce that a student has an antibiotic-resistant infection.

Yuba City Unified School District is sending parents warning letters about Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus—commonly called MRSA—after the staph infection was confirmed Friday.
The letter urges parents to have children wash their hands regularly and to avoid sharing clothing or towels. The infected child’s classroom is also being disinfected.
Meanwhile, Chico State University is reporting 31 students have tested positive for MRSA since January.

Read about MRSA at http://www.buttecounty.net/publichealth

People will do just about anything to make some scratch, apparently including peddling fake flu shots.

A Visalia, CA woman, who is still at large, has been posing as an employee of Kaweah Delta Hospital and making the rounds to local businesses, selling flu shots for the low, low price of twenty bucks a pop. The most amusing part is, people have actually been falling for the scam. But, then again, people are idiots. And this crafty woman is cashing in on that stupidity and the intense fear we industrious Americans have of getting sick and, fucking heaven forbid, having to be totally unproductive for a day or two. Not to mention that half the time you get a flu shot you get sick anyway, because they just don’t protect against every nasty bug out that is floating around out there in the atmosphere. So, unless you are very old, very young, or for some other reason have an extremely weak immune system, you could probably survive the flu season relatively unscathed if you simply boost your vitamin intake.

If you do find yourself unable to resist getting that all-powerful flu shot, go to a fucking shot clinic, for Christ’s sake, don’t just let some random woman who shows up at your job poke you with a needle, no matter how trustworthy she may seem.

Bright Eyes live at the Senator Theater, Chico, CA
Monday, Sept. 24th, 2007
Photos By Melissa Welliver

Check out a full review of the show at the new and sexy Synthesis.net.

Slow news day, I guess.

It isn’t rocket science, and it won’t free Americans from dependence on foreign oil, but an experiment in the Enterprise-Record parking lot proves that sweet things can come right off your car’s dashboard.

Anybody who has ever slid into a car that has been parked in the sunshine on a hot August day has thought or said, “This thing feels like an oven.”

That sense of oven-like temperatures inside the passenger compartment of a closed vehicle, led to a question.

Can you bake cookies in that oven?

War? AG Gonzales resignation? Economy woes? Nahh..that stuff is boring and depressing.

Our local fishwrap is a joke.

You heard me. The Enterprise Record is weak.
We’re not winning any awards over here either, but, we’re a young pop-culture outlet/bar mag.
Sad.

Full Story: It’s official: You can bake cookies in a hot vehicle!

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