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Cholesterol. Long.
This is a rather long post.
The subject under discussion? Cholesterol, fat, heart disease, diets.
The Cholesterol Myth.
The author's name is Barry Groves.( Read more... ) -
The Vegetarian is naturally aggressive?
Okay, this is an interesting point.
In The Naive Vegetarian, the author makes this point:
These days, it seems that there are more and more reasons to protest against the way our society is being run. There are voices of disseat everywhere. (It is the reason for this website!) but there is a much more worrying trend - violent protest ( Read more... ) -
5 actions in 5 minutes...
http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/5_actions_in_5_minutes_to_end_hunger
Vote now to end childhood hunger in america ( Read more... ) -
On Prop 8.
So, in looking for various arguments on the web, I encountered this post by a Calvinist Conservative Christian. He's against proposition 8.( Read more... ) -
Riding Job's horse...
In the church I grew up attending, the ministers/preachers had a euphemism for those people who were constantly bragging about how bad their life was. They called it, "riding Job's horse." For those who don't make the connection, the book of Job (about, oddly enough, Job) is a personal story of Job, who was struck down by the enemy, lost his house ( Read more... ) -
An interesting tidbit...
Among the "superheroes" that U.S. boys under the age of 10 in 1997 reported they most wanted to be, Catwoman rated number one. (The Harpers Index Book, Volume 3. Charis Conn & Lewis H. Lapham, Franklin Square Press, 2000) -
gaming joke...
For those familiar with the HERO system...
Enhanced Senses: Detect Joke (5); Discriminatory (+5); Analyze (+5); 360° Perception (+5); Range (+5); Sense (+2); Targeting (+10): Active cost: 37 Real Cost: 37
Allows the player to say "Of course my character has a sense of humor. See, it's on the character sheet".
Heh.