It's rays! The rays are hurting me!

According to KOB TV in New Mexico, a group in Santa Fe are suing the town under the Americans With Disabilities Act, charging discrimination because of their medical condition?

Their condition? They have health problems caused by WiFi, and the city is using it in public buildings.

Microwaves don't do that. They just don't. Even if they did, why pick on 802.11 networking? Why not also try to eliminate every other device that uses the same frequencies? Maybe because eliminating cordless phones, microwave ovens, and Bluetooth headsets would be, um, impossible? Or maybe the "electro-sensitive" people are just too ignorant to realize they all use the same frequency?

I do not believe the ADA protects people with their real condition, delusional hypochondria.

My thanks to the Obstreperous Curmudgeon for pointing this article out.

Expelled: Intelligence, um, excluded?

Q. Readers want to know if the Movie Answer Man is too PC to review "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed"?

Ruddy Spencer, Tucson, Ariz.

A. The last I heard, it is not considered Politically Correct to agree with Darwin. I think it is more like, oh, intelligent.

From Roger Ebert's Answer Man column.

Journalistic standards

Ms. Sheyla Hershey has breast implants. In an uncredited (?) story from Fox 29 in Philadelphia, the anonymous author writes, "Sheyla's implants are filled with a thousand CCs or two quarts of silicone."

I'm pretty sure my readership is literate. So you know that 1000 cc = 1 liter = 1.06 quarts. In fact, the abbreviation "cc" has been obsolete for decades in science and engineering (though I have no idea if that's equally true in medicine).

There was a day when people in journalism had at least the minimal education needed to recognize common units used in supermarkets. Has the unnamed reporter never bought a 2 liter bottle of soda? Compared it to a quart bottle of, say, ketchup?

Mary needs to schedule appearances in better venues

Mr. Marc Lipton of Monterey, CA, has found another image of the Virgin Mary. You've all heard about her and her son appearing on potatoes, grilled cheese sandwiches, and tree trunks. Now she has manifested herself in road rash.

To those less insistent about supernatural intrusions into the physical world, this is a classic example of pareidolia. In a rational culture this example would be used in psychology classes.

Also making appearances in weird places: Homer Simpson.