Archive for November 2015
All Dietary Pronouncements Are Wrong and Paleo is Lost
The dumbest thing in all dietary pronouncements—from wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling; so, voluminously—is the enormous blind spot that neglects to recognize that human animals are migratory masters. Most species evolve in a single habitat, perhaps migratory birds and a few land-dwelling migrating animals being the notable exceptions. They evolve, really, over hundreds of thousands, even millions…
Read MoreDoes Religion Make You Fat? No, But It Probably Doesn’t “Hurt” Either. And Fundamentalist Baptists Are the Fattest.
I had a curiosity yesterday. What are the correlations between obesity and religiosity, and if they exist, are some denominations more at risk than others? I did a little Googling this morning and found that indeed, it has been studied. But if you dig deeper, it becomes quite a mess, because it’s difficult to separate science…
Read MoreRichard Against Inhumanity Plays Cards Against Humanity
I had never heard a wiff about it. Friday, just after noon, we headed out to Redding, CA, about 4-5 hours north by car, depending upon Bay Area, Coke-bottle traffic. Because we got out of here by 1PM, it only cost about an hour delay of wishing death on lots of strangers. Got to our…
Read MoreSunday Fracking Church: Drill Drill Drill for Fracking Sake; Embrace Solar and Battery Tech Too
The political landscape meanders through our lives often enough by means of presenting a collection of false alternatives in order to promote binary thinking, analogous to our predominately right vs. left political system. “You’re either for us or you’re against us.” In the context of energy production—as the narrative of the left goes—you need to embrace “clean” energy…
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