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"High Fructose Corn Syrup"... Sound the Alarm! More on this later, but for now, digest this: "Our study shows for the first time the surprising speed with which humans make body fat from fructose. ...Once you start the process of fat synthesis from fructose, it's hard to slow it down." From an article by K.H. Shear This is from the September, 2008 "Center Times," a publication of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Super credible. So read your labels. (Soft drinks, processed food, all that easy stuff.) Avoid fructose unless its actually in fruit. Save yourself. And your kids. And your friends. More to come. ... and here it is. If you don't check Digg.com occasionally, you are missing a lot of news. For a summary of all the recent postings about articles on HFructoseCS. Check this . And check THIS. I paid $2.14 for a bottle of fat juice called "SoBe Black & Blue Berry Brew" which looked like a rea

Rants, "Taken Private" You may have (not) noted that I have been quiet. Not a rant in weeks. Well, busy-bee me has been ranting to friends and relatives instead of to the blog-o-swear. So here are a few excerpts from said rants. A friend said: "Obama's socialist" I said: There you go again. Socialism is when the government owns the companies. "... Economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods." Or, worse, ".. . state control of capital within the framework of a market economy..." kind of like helping Bear Sterns, Fannie/Freddie and now Lehman Brothers. Who's the socialist here, anyway?] A friend sent me an editorial from Independent Business Daily , blasting Obama's positions. I said: America is in serious trouble. If we are to remain the beacon of freedom, the leader of the free world, the font of innov

Sanity(?) Among the Nutso With the Prez campaign going the way it is... at least from The Right... the "celebrity" angle with Britney and Paris, the "Tire Pressure Gauge," gambit, etc., it seems a moment for something completely different. A personal admission, confession, whatever... One of my hobbies is writing science fiction. As we said in the good old days (see below), "far out." In this case way far out, as in the other side of our galaxy. In this instance I am trying to describe something really big. I mean BIG. It's a writing challenge to do that and not use "vast, gigantic, immense, humongous" et al over and over. So my questions to you, occasional reader, are (1.) Do you get the sense of "really big" from this, and (2.) Is this little sketch even comprehensible (a.) ... if you are a sci-fi fan, or (b.) if you are not. Here 'tis: Depot Circling a quiet white dwarf in a leisurely orbit of 30 parsecs radius

If You Haven’t Received One of These Lists, You Will Since I’m a certified Olde Guy, I get a lot of these. You know, the lists of how rotten things are now compared to how wonderful things were then (the 1970s, the 80s or even the 90s if you are really young). This one is for the older crowd and I found myself grumbling as I read it. My grumbles are in RED CAPS. “Progress” ain’t all good, but what is? Here’s one list: TO THOSE BORN 1930-1970 TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!! WHICH IS FAR FROM ALL OF US. First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant . WE DON’T REALLY KNOW HOW MANY KIDS WERE CURSED BY FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME OR STUNTED BRAIN DEVELOPMENT OR PREDISPOSITION TO TOBACCO USAGE. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. WHEN A WOMAN “LOST HER BABY” WE JUST WERE SORROWFUL. Then after that trauma

Whadda Republican! [Click to enlarge] 'Nuff said. Graph credit: http://www.chrismartenson.com/debt

Well Said A friend recently dropped me a note in response to one of my "things are going to heck in a handbasket " blog posts. I found myself nodding in agreement, and I thought his short statement was on the money. If everyone held such a balanced and kind position, the world would be a better place all around. Here's how he put it: "With age I have learned that 1) nothing is ever as good as it seems and its corollary nothing is ever as bad as it seems. 2) This too shall pass 3) that for we who believe in being responsible for our own actions, practicing common civility and being honest and ethical to all, there is a God, and that kindness should be extended to all... (All this) makes me a dinosaur of giant proportions." A giant, yes, but not an extinct one, thank Heavens. [for more on 'this too shall pass," check this .]

Cross-eyed Version 3-D without glasses is for "eye-wallers" and "eye-crossers." Eye-wallers are people who can easily relax their eyes into 'the distance' and see the 3-D Magic Eye stereograms in the comics pages. Eye-crossers are people with good control over crossing their eyes (a skill typically learned in grade school) . Either works fine, just so the L & R pictures are on the correct sides. Here's an "eye-crosser." "Eye-Crossers" Version. [Slowly cross your eyes until images merge. Didn't see the hole* in the woodpile before you 3-D'd, did you?] I'll have an "Eye-waller" up soon. * Made by our Airedales, seeking varmits hiding in the woodpile.