Sunday, December 22, 2024

Web Log for 12.20-21.24

Late again with the links. Microsoft was STEALING time again. 

Ecology 

All the blather about Greenness in the past four years accomplished what, exactly, for one of the rivers that shape the District of Columbia?


Funny

It's the Babylon Bee, but it's only a slight exaggeration of the facts...Sigh. There are so many reason why some people hate one particular African-American. He is too rich, too young, and too clever for some people not to hate. And he has done some things that were annoying...


Right. The position of this web site is: If you think you have a nephew/niece, grandchild, or pet who is much nicer, more interesting, and better looking than Elon Musk is, you're normal. If you think self-driving cars are a bad idea and solar power is still a mess, you might be on the "conservative" side, but this web site has no problem with that. If you hate Elon Musk, you are officially a bitter, lonely, miserable old failure, also known as an Old Poop, and may be subject to vigilante justice in such forms as having your friends' grandchildren sing carols or read poems at you. 

Health 

More sighing. It's not that the human body was not designed to eat mostly plants and digest complex carbohydrates. (You feel full and satisfied by complex carbs because they're full of nutrients and fibre. You feel hungry again in five minutes after eating simple carbs because they burn up fast.) It's true that masses of people are feeling better when they eat high-fat, low-fibre, even "carnivore" diets these days. And why should that be? Why did the McDougall diet, vegan for 29 days of each month, serve so many people so well in the twentieth century, then have people complaining of chronic indigestion, chronic internal bleeding, chronic respiratory disorders, chronic skin inflammations, chronic joint pain, chronic depression, chronic aggravation of disabilities verifiably caused by injuries, after 2009? A "carnivore diet" is a short-term solution to get the level of toxic chemical residues down. The human body is not designed to store toxins from dead animals for five days. That this guy finds it possible to advocate this approach to dietary health is a serious symptom of a collective disease. That disease consists primarily of glyphosate poisoning, though don't forget the neonicotinoids, the paraquat, the glufosinate, the 2,4-D, or the "Let's give it a really silly name so it won't sound as deadly as 2,4-D" quizalofop. If you're still finding it possible to eat a clean, healthy plant-based diet, living amidst miles of wilderness as you undoubtedly do, you're entitled to say the young doctor is full of, well, stored toxins from dead animals that lack the fibrous bulk necessary to allow the intestines to push them out so they just lie inside the body and rot.


Poem

I'm sorry about the bereavement that provoked this poem, but Kim M. Russell's got it.


Shopping

Businesses in Asheville that routinely ship gifts:

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