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American : 2008-11-18 Ang's Weird Ideas
As children starve, world struggles for
solution
Every time an American bites
down on a steak or hamburger, they're
contributing to global hunger, Roberts
says. As other countries become more
affluent, they're copying our meat-heavy
diet. The problem: It takes so much
grain and other ...
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Obama : 2008-11-18 Hullabaloo
Angry Tears Of Betrayalby digbySomeone
needs to alert the religion industrial
complex that their "outreach" doesn't
extend to the highest reaches of the
Catholic church: Via CNN, Cardinal James
Stafford:"His rhetoric is post-modernist
and marks an agenda nd vision that are
aggressive, ...
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America : 2008-11-18 John Goodman's Health Policy Blog
Should healthy people take drugs? Half
of heart attacks and strokes occur in
people without high cholesterol. Several
million of these potential victims could
benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering
drugs anyway. [link]
Should 80-year-olds
get heart surgery? The study "followed
1,062 ...
Hits drugs heart obesity
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tv : 2008-11-17 Pulp Friction
Christopher Hitchens: Twit, Slob &
AssholeI keep forgetting how much I
loathe the terminally stuffy, arrogant,
so-called "intellectual" pundit/gasbag
that is Christopher Hitchens.Then I see
him on TV or read some pithy article
he's written and I am reminded just how
much of a prick I t...
Hitchens:
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Christmas : 2008-11-18 Mabel's House
OK ladies. Start your engines.After
writing this post and naming my
horrendous, sluggish, witch-like
metabolism Maleficent the Vindictive...
I got a big laugh out of Megan when she
left this comment:"I know how you feel!
I should name my metabolism...hmm... I
think Ferdinand the Bull.....
Giveaway
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videos : 2008-11-19 Godless Business
Christopher Hitchens ILLUSTRATED 2 of 2
by 43alley
Videos
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God : 2008-11-18 Hullabaloo
Beware of Histo-tainmentby ddayI'm very
glad that Matthew Pinsker penned this
op-ed today taking a more critical look
at Doris Kearns Goodwin's pop
pseudo-history "Team Of Rivals". As a
yarn, I hear the book is quite good, but
as a piece of history it's not exactly
true to the source....
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United States : 2008-11-17 Amygdala
100% BASED ON PROFESSIONALISM. Iraq is
sure to succeed if it's just corrupt
enough. The government of Prime
Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is
systematically dismissing Iraqi
oversight officials, who were installed
to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries
by order of the American occup...
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President : 2008-11-18 The Heretik
Not change I can believe in:
“President-elect Barack Obama and
Robert Gates are negotiating terms under
which the defence secretary would remain
as Pentagon chief in his administration,
the Financial Times has learned.“
Uncategorized defense Robert
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People : 2008-11-17 LiberalDesert
"Core Principles" vs. ResultsThis time,
a real headline kvetch. My suggestion
was above, but the editor's choice
("Dems focus on results while GOP
ponders ideology") makes me sound more
certain than I am (after all, I am a
Democrat) that the new administration
and Congress actually wi...
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