POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Ace of Spades Suffers Serious Inconvenience [UPDATE]

Much more important than this is Michelle Malkin and family's continuing search for Marizela Perez, of course, of whom nothing has been heard for two and a half weeks. I'm particularly interested in seeing that Marizela is recovered, because of the many kindnesses that I and others whom I like and admire have received from Michelle, but also because I too suffered from profound depression my first year and a half in college. Ed Morrissey has been a stalwart in this regard, rekindling interest on his radio show, and I know that Jimmie Bise has mentioned it a lot, too.

To be frank, that there's not been a post at the website since March 18 is depressing. Please keep them in your prayers. If anyone can send me a widget for my sidebar, please do.

UPDATE: Michelle's posted this evening with a link to her appearance on Hannity regarding her missing cousin.

Little Miss Attila is also blegging, and was very kind to me during my recent bleg, and really all along since I've known her online. Thanks to the kindness of these and other people online, including Glenn Reynolds, I've been able to get the car fixed and make the down payment on Daughter Girl's braces. I'm behind on sending out personal thank yous, naturally, but beginning to catch up. So, many thanks to all who've contributed.

But I want to make you aware of Ace's predicament. For many years, of course, he's been one of the most prolific and entertaining of righty bloggers. It's true that he has a great stable of guest bloggers at his place, including Maetenloch, who has kindly linked on occasion. But Ace is also an avid hobbyist, and sometimes he has to spend time cleaning up.

In recent years, Ace was able to outsource some of the clean up to a company operating out of Ohio. His minions, when they travelled west, would make a short detour off of I-90 and drop off some of the accumulated side effects of his hobby at this very innovative and helpful business, where he enjoyed discounted bulk rates in exchange for an ad in the sidebar. Unfortunately, bureaucrats, probably in the pay of Big Embalming, have put the kibosh on this enterprise.

An Ohio funeral home that is the first in the nation to use a cremation alternative that dissolves bodies with lye and heat has effectively been blocked from using the procedure by state regulators.

Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus is the only U.S. funeral business offering the procedure called alkaline hydrolysis to the public, according to Jessica Koth, a spokeswoman for the National Funeral Directors Association. The process is touted by proponents as being better for the environment than cremation. While funeral homes in other states are moving toward the method, Edwards' owner, Jeff Edwards, told The Columbus Dispatch that he has used the method on 19 bodies since January.

But a memo issued last week by the Ohio Department of Health has left Edwards unable to continue using the procedure.

The health department's memo directed local officials not to issue permits required for disposing of bodies or accept death certificates when bodies are to be disposed of through alkaline hydrolysis.

It's not that Ace can't do the work himself, it's just that he'll have to reassemble his lab, and probably lease some out of the way warehouse space. So, do what you can, please, and for Scared Monkeys, too.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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