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Category Archives: Social Commentary
Air S3x?
Well, here’s something I don’t think I want to watch.
Heart Muscles And Fat
Gee, what do you know?
…eliminating or severely limiting fats from the diet may not be beneficial to cardiac function in patients suffering from heart failure, a study at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine reports. Results from biological model studies conducted by assistant professor of physiology and biophysics Margaret Chandler, PhD, and other researchers, demonstrate that a high-fat diet improved overall mechanical function, in other words, the heart’s ability to pump, and was accompanied by cardiac insulin resistance.
How many people has the FDA and the nutrition/industrial complex killed with the fatophobia over the past decades? I’m pretty sure my father was one of them.
And I continue to be amazed at how easy it is to find “low-fat” or “fat-free” products in the interior aisles of the grocery store (especially in the candy aisle…), but almost impossible to find low-sodium products.
Thoughts On Cleaning Up My Office
If you can’t remember why you have a memento, or when you got it or where, it’s probably not a memento any more.
That’s What She Said
Training computers to tell jokes.
If A Man Murdered Thousands In The Name Of Christ
…would we give him a Christian burial? While I’m not a Christian, I would think that Christians would object.
I don’t think it helps the so-called “moderate Muslims” to “follow Islamic traditions” with respect to this monster. He should have been fed to the hogs.
[Update mid afternoon]
I’m listening to Glenn Beck, and he’s channeling me. He says he’s already spoken to Muslim friends who are appalled that this happened.
Also, I’ll have a piece up at Pajamas Media on this subject later today.
The Other Royal Wedding
Iowahawk has coverage of the one that no one else was paying attention to. The nuptial vows will bring a tear to your eye, if you’re an anglophile.
I Am Extremely Deviant
That is, I am so deviant, that I share virtually none of these deviancies:
Straight men enjoy a wider variety of erotica than imagined, including sites devoted to elderly women and transsexuals. Foot fetishes aren’t a deviance; men are evolutionarily wired to look for small feet, which are a sign of high estrogen production, which itself is a sign of fertility. Gay men and straight men have nearly identical brains, and their favorite body parts, in order of preference, line up exactly: chests, buttocks, feet. Straight men prefer heavy women to thin ones. Straight women enjoy reading about and watching romances between two men — it’s not about the sex, which is downplayed, but the emotion, which is the focus. (The largest audience for “Brokeback Mountain,” says the book, was straight women.) Straight men have a fascination with other men’s penises, which may be conscious or unconscious.
For the record, I am a very straight man, who has zero interest in elderly women, transs3xuals, feet, chests, and a negative degree of interest in other mens’ junk. I don’t even like to see it in porn, particularly in a woman’s mouth. Few things make me go for the fast forward faster than fell@tio. But apparently, I’m weird in that regard, judging by its prevalence. I would also note that I’ve never done a single one of the top ten searches sited in the article.
Just in case my readers had been wondering.
Trade In Your Steering Wheel
…for a toilet seat:
As we enter our collective lunch breaks, we thought this number might make you think again before eating and driving: There are nearly nine times as many potentially harmful bugs on your steering wheel as there are on an average toilet seat.
This shouldn’t really be surprising. Toilet seats get cleaned occasionally.
But replacing my steering wheel with a toilet seat probably wouldn’t work out all that well. The rim of the seat is too big to get my fingers comfortably around.
Anyway, if it’s not news you can use, it’s at least news.
Ready For The Future?
XKCD has the timeline.