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COKE OR PEPSI?

GOD OR NIETZCHE?

YES OR NO?

BOXERS OR BRIEFS?

 .... states 80% of my junk mail box. Why do I want Ephedra? Somehow heart failure and other such things don't appeal to me, perhaps it does to some desperate dieters, but was Ephedra ever all that effective? To the point of choosing a bodies breakdown? Odd.

An anecdote: One day while working at the gas station a clean cut young man came in and shiftily looked at me and said under his voice: "Hey man, you got any of those power pills with Epehdra in them?"  Read More »

     An elderly priest stood before a large crowd. He was fragile, and appeared to have few years left in  Read More »

     A century ago, nay, half a century ago a term like "Animal Rights" would've been a punchline. Now it's an absolutely absurd, utterly illogical reality. Now I'm not entirely cold entity, I can partly understand the allure of animals, their appearance of selflesness, their human taught concept of "affection" which is naught but advanced instinct, their inability to talk, etc, although I have to admit sometimes a break from humanity appears nice to me as well.  Read More »

     "Higamous Hogamous Women are Monogamous, Hogamous Higamous Men are Polygamous." Most peoply know the preceding phrase, it's fairly commen, perhaps for an older set, but either way it's self explanatory, and very very true. Men indeed do seem much, much more inclined towards polygamy, or not just polygamy, multiple sexual partners, and not often wanting to be confined to monogamy. Scientist V.S. Ramachandran, author of "Phantoms In the Brain" (A fantastic book, available to any walk of life) proposed a hypothesis explaining this phenomenon logically.  Read More »

     Stop me if you've heard this one: "I don't really like to read." Or perhaps "I have ADD, it's too hard for me to read." Maybe "Books are boring", "It's easier for you than me", "We don't need books anymore", "I don't want to be a nerd" and most frighteningly "*YOU* actually read?" (I've heard all of those, some more than once or twice.) My girlfriend attends the local school here in my town (I was thankfully deprived due to homeschooling A.K.A. "The Grace of God") and it is filled with some of the most inane individuals you will ever see. There's some who have not read an entire book since the age of 12 in her Senior class. TWELVE! The staggering implications of that are frightening. If you weren't even remotely shocked by that above statement, beware, you will probably be offended soon. Her English class did not involve books for well over a year and just watched movies instead, her current class feels offended that they had to write a five paragraph essay on a character from a book. FIVE PARAGRAPHS! BARELY A PAGE OF WRITING! They whine, and moan, and complain, and if they don't pass? Parents whine, and moan, and complain and teachers only hang their heads in depressing silence.  Read More »

     [Disclaimer: If you have read The Jungle or are familiar with it, you may skip to the end of this paragraph, if not I suggest you read it for clarity's sake.]

     About three months ago, give or take, I read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. It's about Lithuanian immigrants (and many other different ethinicities) getting ground up by the Capitalist system in the late 1800's after coming to America with promises of wealth and freedom. The meat packing industry of Chicago, and the general economic system of America trapped them, and they died off from injury and sickness. The entire point was that there was the rich, and the poor and no in between, and the poor were trapped amongst "Wage Slavery" and could never actually escape from their status. It was a brutal and eye-opening exposition of the corrupt way the meat packing industry was working. In reality, the meat packing industry reformed, unions formed, it seemed everything was looking up...  Read More »