Full Moons, Dog Days...and Meg Ryan Was Right!

The full moon arrives on Tuesday, a phenomenon that's apparent not only by full-moon references in the blogosphere but by the emergence (again) of bizarre news. Plunderbunny's Deep Thoughts has noticed the hugeness of the moon in the sky, and the NASA's explanation of the perspective is today's No. 3 link. BlogPulse's "full moon" buzz is appropriately cyclical:



Dog Days...
The news isn't so glowing on the dog front. In fact, it's downright disturbing. Today's top link tells of a South Carolina teen's troubles for sexually assaulting a neighbor's dog and another neighbor's girls (and why does the dog news gets more attention? "Oh....my....God" writes one LiveJournal blogger. Have to agree. On the other side of the world, a deformed dog in Malaysia created enough stir to be today's fourth most-cited blog link (remember, bizarre things happen around full-moon time!).

"I'll have what she's having...
As for Meg Ryan, her famous diner scene in "When Harry Met Sally" now has science on its side: women can fake orgasms (but the brain knows the difference), according to British researchers. Three of today's Top 40 links (Nos. 13 and 15 and 31) point to the study's results, while researcher Gert Holstege is today's burstiest person. Antiminke blogger figures this kind of research, if nothing else, ought to inspire children to study science.

Support the war? Sign right up
Jesus' General blog has taken up an unsual campaign called Operation Yellow Elephant: encouraging members of the Young Republicans clubs around the U.S. to enlist for military service as a manly way to support the war in Iraq. Malixe blogger has joined the call to send campaign details to qualified friends, and New York Times columnist Bob Herbert points out in "Someone Else's Child" (today's No. 26 link) that re-instituting the draft doesn't necessarily solve the problem of an understaffed military.

Another CEO blogger
GoDaddy honcho Bob Parsons has joined the list of CEO bloggers and learned opinionated lessons the hard way... Welcome to the blogosphere, Bob.