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Adopting a pet is a good thing. Moving on now….
A few words about food: Alli may not be your ally; why it’s so hard to resist food that isn’t very good for us; one of the men who made it that way; why Time’s peice on exercise and weight loss is misleading; and is soy “real” food? As for myself, moderation in all things. I don’t think a little soy sauce and the occasional edamame is going to hurt anybody. I realize that this is anecdotal but it seems like most of the people I have ever heard of having problems with soy consumed lots and lots of it day in and day out.
Mainstream Stupidity: our media is making us stupid by legitimizing the dumbest theories with no corroborating evidence. See also: birthers, death panels, most conspiracy theorists, Glenn Beck.
More on World War II: Last year I played Call of Duty: World At War. It allowed me to see, briefly, the Soviet side of the war. In short, they had it a lot worse than America did. Perhaps their losses colored the entire cold war.
To the Conservatives: because government can’t do anything right? (Except for roads, education, sanitation, the aqueducts….) Thom Hartmann riffs on the same theme. Is this really what they want?
On Health Insurance Reform: The “death panels” already exist, but they are run by insurance company bureaucrats. If our current system is so great, how come thousands showed up for a free clinic? Oh, and an item on why abortion needs to be covered by insurance regardless of whether your Aunt Frannie and Uncle Dobson approve. You don’t suppose our current LOW levels of people being employed by small businesses has something to do with our current health insurance situation, do you?
Speaking of Health: British researchers are in a tizzy over the fact that not every woman has switched to birth control pills with the lowest risk of a particular bad side effect. It is worth noting that this side effect is potentially fatal, but still incredibly rare. I guess it never occurred to researchers that women might be more concerned about the side effects they are more likely to experience when switching pills.
Bank Failure Update: Read it and weep. My bank was taken over yesterday. Supposed to be business as usual with a new owner Monday. No wonder investors are no longer content with “not as bad as expected” news.
Dilemma: how do you find a real nutcase before he does something dangerous to others, without locking up people that are maybe a little off but no real threat to anybody?
You will need to know this at some point in your life: how to choose sheets.
And last: impact craters.
Have a safe weekend, folks!
Thanks for the link.
I suspect that the German surprise attack on the Soviets and then, nearly six months later, the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor set the stage for the entire Cold War- two nuclear-armed nations which were both paranoid about another surprise attack.