Author: soma

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No human being, in any situation, should be exposed to secondhand smoke against their will. Every human being has a right to comport themselves in public without the fear of physiological assault.

Something made me think of getting American ginseng yesterday. Actually what happened was I was in my kitchen and bumped a shelf and a bag of it fell onto the floor in front of me and got my attention. I ate a few pieces and felt the desire to get more. I have used red…

Watching this deeply moving documentary about the Catholic Church. Sadly, I think that the church is getting it wrong. It should be about choosing a life to follow divinity. That does not necessarily mean forgoing physical love or comfort, but means dedicating one’s life first and foremost to something higher. Most people who have relationships…

After something like 7 or 8 years the bicycle shopping basket finally, totally ist kaputt. It held up admirably through all the inevitable tipovers of my Marin Sausalito hybrid which it has faithfully served. But after the last couple tipovers the bond attaching the mesh bottom piece and the sides finally started to give way.…

They are total bullshit. The results of a Swedish study has just been released which has found that moderate alcohol consumption only has a positive benefit against coronary heart disease for 15% of the population. Wait. Why isn’t this story being plastered all over the media as the previous ones were???

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There seems to be this predominant thinking that aging is synonymous with a high probability of becoming obese. I would like to say once and for all that this is complete bullshit. It is not true. It is only “true” because people eat shit. Because they put garbage in their bodies. Because they deviate –…

This may be news to many, it turns out that high arsenic levels have been found in American-grown rice. This stems from the fact that many groundwater reservoirs in the US have unsafe, high levels of arsenic (and probably also the fact that rice is a highly irrigation-intensive crop). Lundberg, one of the largest American…