Guess who’s got severe sleep apnea!

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I finally got a follow-up call from my recent sleep study. Turns out I stopped breathing 31 times per hour, which means I have to go back this weekend for another study with a CPAP machine. (I’m a tiny bit suspicious, since the insurance cutoff for the CPAP coverage is 30 times an hour, but whatever.)

This doesn’t surprise me as much as it might have a month ago, because that’s when I first started to notice that I frequently stop breathing while I’m awake (your proverbial shallow breather). I figure it’s just as bad when I’m asleep.

Delaware school board cancels reading list because of the gay

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What a bunch of wusses this school board is:

The Cape Henlopen School Board nuked its entire summer reading list to keep kids from reading The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M Danforth’s acclaimed YA novel about a gay teenager coming of age in Montana.

Originally, the board was content to merely strikeCameron Post from the list, ignoring its own rules for challenging reading assignments, and figleafed its bigotry by insisting that the book’s removal was due to profanity, rather than LGBT themes. When anti-censorship groups pointed out that many of the other books on the list contained profanity, it did away with the summer reading list altogether.

Via Steve Duckett.