{"id":2068,"date":"2010-09-07T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/09\/post-labor-day-news-roundup.html"},"modified":"2010-09-07T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T07:30:06","slug":"post-labor-day-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/09\/post-labor-day-news-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"Post-Labor Day News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>After last year&#8217;s debacle over the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/?s=%22Swine+Flu%22&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">Swine Flu hysteria<\/a>, vaccine makers aren&#8217;t taking any chances and are practically<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/yourlife\/health\/medical\/coldflu\/2010-09-07-flu07_ST_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">giving the stuff away this year<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129693834\" target=\"_blank\">Strikes by train workers<\/a>&nbsp;in London and France are creating Mercury retrograde havoc for commuters.<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s file this under Mercury retrograde for revisiting past research efforts that fell by the wayside: Scientists are researching the medicinal value of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/la-sci-magic-mushrooms-20100907,0,4230087.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">magic mushrooms<\/a>&#8221; and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/PainManagement\/smoking-marijuana-ease-chronic-pain-researchers\/story?id=11515566\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana<\/a>. &nbsp;<i>Watch for a post on this subject coming soon!<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in news that isn&#8217;t related to astrology but interesting nonetheless: a new study shows that money can only buy happiness up to an income of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/lifestyle\/content\/healthday\/642850.html\" target=\"_blank\">about $75,000 a year.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;After that point the happiness quotient, as defined with general satisfaction about your life and your day to day experience of joy, levels off. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a brief roundup of a few great astroblogs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twilightstarsong.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/still-aboard-that-zodiacal-ship-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twilight&nbsp;<\/a>examines a Bosch painting from the astrological viewpoint.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/raginguniverse.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/page-turning-and-book-marking.html\" target=\"_blank\">JM&nbsp;<\/a>examines the breakdown of the Obama presidency under Uranus at the 29th degree of Pisces.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicchronicle.com\/2010\/09\/hawking-shakes-up-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn&nbsp;<\/a>gives her take on the Stephen Hawking controversy.<\/li>\n<li>And&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlsdaughter.com\/2010\/09\/how-to-be-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beth&nbsp;<\/a>reminds us that alone time is a valuable thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last year&#8217;s debacle over the&nbsp;Swine Flu hysteria, vaccine makers aren&#8217;t taking any chances and are practicallygiving the stuff away this year. &nbsp; Strikes by train workers&nbsp;in London and France are creating Mercury retrograde havoc for commuters. Let&#8217;s file this under Mercury retrograde for revisiting past research efforts that fell by the wayside: Scientists are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Post-Labor Day News Roundup - Astrological Musings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/09\/post-labor-day-news-roundup.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Post-Labor Day News Roundup - Astrological Musings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After last year&#8217;s debacle over the&nbsp;Swine Flu hysteria, vaccine makers aren&#8217;t taking any chances and are practicallygiving the stuff away this year. &nbsp; Strikes by train workers&nbsp;in London and France are creating Mercury retrograde havoc for commuters. 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