Archive for June 2014
53 Years Old. It’s 2014. Still Dealing With Mother Goose Fairy Tales. Is It Time Yet To Ridicule Mercilessly?
Oh Myyy. This image went up on Facebook yesterday for fun. I’ve published it here and there, before (including a slide in my AHS12 presentation at Harvard Law—got audible lafs). But there’s lots of newish readers, owing to resistant starch, who haven’t looked into my dark past (which is 10 years and 4,000 posts, all for…Read More
STOP POLE DISCRIMINATION NOW!
Everywhere you look, discrimination. So disheartening. Black, brown, yellow, red. Ha! WHITE! FEmale. Ha! Male. Just male. WOman. Man. ANTarctic. Ha! Arctic. Just arctic. Antarctica sets new record for sea ice The sea ice surrounding Antarctica, which, as I reported in my , has been steadily increasing throughout the period of satellite measurement that began…Read More
Medium Anarchy
Some months way back I became a bit intrigued by a new social blogging platform, kinda having lost interest in Tumblr. It’s Medium. As a platform that just gets out of the way and let’s you blog from a web-based editor, it’s pretty great. It achieves—for me—a level of plain pleasure in just easily crafting…Read More
Doug Casey on the Looming Global Economic Meltdown and an Introduction to Monetary Policy
I’m really not an alarmist, and I see a different problem with fractional reserve banking than most others do (it’s the government’s fiat monopoly on money creation and centralized policy, dummy—not that loans, per se, create new money based upon fractions and multipliers). In very brief, fractional reserve banking can and has been carried out…Read More
TGIF Morning Links: Random Gut, Diet, Healthcare, Vegan Madness, Funny, and Inspiring
Just some randomness for a Friday. ~ The women’s world championship in hang gliding is going on right now. Annecy, France—as well as for sport class, rigid wings, and foot-launched sailplanes. Very nicely done 3-min video with nice music, all set to quintessential alps scenery. It was nice to see a few familiar faces in…Read More
Laf Laf Laf. …The Arbitrary Wall Took a Great Fall, and All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men, Couldn’t Put The Arbitrary Wall Back Together Again
I love it when commies get kicked in the teeth. The two-year attempt to push immigration reform through Congress is effectively dead and unlikely to be revived until after President Obama leaves office, numerous lawmakers and advocates on both sides of the issue said this week. The slow collapse of new border legislation — which…Read More
Laf Laf Laf. Homeless Man Makes Two Thug Cops His Bitches From Start to Finish. Being Tasered Only Empowers Him
You gotta see this. I rarely forward Cop Confrontation videos. Lots of people out there now standing up, tons of stuff, but it’s just not in my wheelhouse to promote, much. I prefer you avoid cops and confrontations, and I prefer to highlight true victims who get bashed from second one. Good on the guys…Read More
How To Feed Your Gut and Have Fun With The Kids Too
A couple of the most frequently asked question over the last year and some months, over 100 posts and thousands of comments on Resistant Starch, have been: How do I know if what I bought is truly potato starch (raw) and not potato flour (cooked)? Why not just eat real food instead of something processed…Read More
Book Review: Paleo Girl, by Leslie Klenke
I was going to take a pass on this one. In fact, sometimes Mark’s office emails and asks if I’d like a copy to review and in this case, I declined. Later that day, it showed up in the mail anyway. I just set it aside, intending a browse through…eventually. After all—can I say something?—teenage…Read More
Battling Ropes; Surprising: More Demanding Than Squats, Lunges and Deadlifts
Count me surprised, but after thinking about it, and counting my own navy experience as a deck officer, it made a lot of sense. But first, the science. Adel Moussa posted this on his amazing SuppVersity blog, yesterday: Want to Get Ripped & Strong? “Battling the Rope” Could be THE Exercise to Do! The “Battle” is…Read More
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)
An interesting TED I watched yesterday and recommend. I think it might be about 80% what I think about it all.Read More
Ray Cronise, et al, Have Published a Thoughtful Paper on Obesity (Free Download)
Abstract The ‘‘Metabolic Winter’’ Hypothesis: A Cause of the Current Epidemics of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease Raymond J. Cronise, BS,(1) David A. Sinclair, PhD, (2,3) and Andrew A. Bremer, MD, PhD (4),* The concept of the ‘‘Calorie’’ originated in the 1800s in an environment with limited food availability, primarily as a means to define economic equivalencies…Read More
Headed Out
Back up to the mountain retreat at 4,000 ft elevation. Returning next Thursday afternoon. I have a number of blog posts planned, in the works. Lots of book editing. It’s 90% rough drafted, 1/3 – 1/2 manuscript ready for the publisher. Dumped all 21 chapters into a single file yesterday and 12-pt type with 1″…Read More
Letting Women Vote, and Then, Letting Them Hold Political Office is Dumb
Because, if you do that, eventually, they’ll go after Ice Cream Trucks (to protect the chillins—you have to protect the chillins). Senator warns of dangers of Ice Cream truck chimes Fine Gael senator Catherine Noone today warned that the “persistent use of chimes” of ice cream vans represent an “aggressive form of selling”. Ms Noone…Read More
Refining the Resistant Starch Story – Part 3 (RS3 Content in Food)
Part 1 of this 3-Part series dealt with incorporating a diversity of fermentable fiber in the diet as more ideal than isolated RS alone. Part 2 dealt with the difference between raw RS2 resistant starch and RS3 retrograded resistant starch. In this final post in the series, we cover what sources of foods you can…Read More
Net Neutrality: Always Count on Major Media and Pundits to Slant the Story
I was going to blog about “infrared” BBQing this morning, but just got fed up with the whole “Net Neutrality” debate, and so here goes. BBQ post tomorrow. A couple of weeks back I read an article that for the first time I’ve seen or heard, addresses all the issues—not just the slant the left…Read More
Toddlers With Rounds of Gut Killing Antibiotics Now Suffering Severe Allergies
I doubt Crissy truly understood how to make this Richard smile a lot on a Friday, and get her troubles out there for a social hug and crowd sourced dose of ideas and help. You can guess how, and if you can’t, fuck off. Good Afternoon Richard, I started following you on Facebook a few…Read More
Forced Sharing is Commie Collectivist Bullshit; Voluntary Sharing is Normal Animal Behavior
Yesterday I popped up this article by Very Bloggy Beth on my Facebook and it seemed to get some interest: Why I Don’t Make My Son Share. There is a sharing policy at my son’s preschool. It’s a parent-run co-op, so we have to have policies like this so that we will all handle situations relatively the…Read More
Refining the Resistant Starch Story – Part 2 (RS2 and RS3; Not Exactly the Same Thing)
A couple of days ago I published Part 1 on other non-RS Fibers. Now comes Part 2 on the difference between RS2 (raw resistant starch) and RS3 (retrograded resistant starch—from previously cooked and cooled raw starch). For this installment, Dr. Grace gets the limelight overt on AnimalPharm: Cont…Update 2 – RS2 and RS3 are Not Exactly…Read More
Refining the Resistant Starch Story – Part 1 (Other non-RS Fibers)
A Tim “Tatertot” Steele and Dr. Grace Update, Part 1 of 3… While researching for our upcoming best-seller, we’ve been spending a considerable amount of time looking at Resistant Starch and other fibers that act as food for gut microbes, and thought it was time for some RS updates (see this recent success story about using…Read More