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No Fatties, Please
So the NAAFA people have finally been revealed for the evil geniuses they are. We at last have an answer to that age old question: Are fat people causing global warming? A new report says so. The letter, which ran in The Lancet, claims that fat people consume more (18% more calories than non-fatties), drive [...]
And Pinko said unto Pharaoh
As the Jewish-nationalist-spiritual-human rights-ecofriendly-GLBT friendly-generally progressive-whatever your cause is holiday of Passover begins tonight (for those who can afford it) I just want to take the time to say to our Jewish readers “Next Year in Japan”
Vogue for Humanitarians
Ever lament the dearth of high quality glossy magazines devoted to global and domestic humanitarian efforts? I know I have.
Enter Need Magazine, the brain child of husband and wife Stephanie and Kelly Kinnunen, who lived out of their car for a time to afford to publish it. So often those who want to save the [...]
Wiping Kidney Dialysis right off the map.
One country has eliminated a shortage of transplant kidneys, by creating system to pay kidney donors, and (I’m about to link to a Cato Institute report, ready? Here we go…), it’s apparently working. That country is Iran.
The Iranian system works through a volunteer organization and is “highly standardized and regulated with only modest room for [...]
The 3rd Corey is hotter than the other two
It’s Friday night; I’m home alone drinking red wine and watching Bill Moyers interview Corey Booker, messianic Newark Mayor (and nomad). Perhaps it is because I’m flipping between the interview and 1998’s incomprehensibly sexy Velvet Goldmine, but I just fell in love with Corey Booker. He talks about great “urban innovators,” changing the ways cities [...]
Give a little, get a little
I made a donation to the ASPCA today and I hate myself for it. I didn’t do it for adorable Freedom or any of the other needy little creatures of this earth. I did it for the swag. God I love charity swag.
I love my dog. He wears sweaters and sometimes he wears a coat [...]
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