From my local elected representative:
Democrats in Congress are once again attempting to take on the role of Commander in Chief and make the irrational decision to pull out of Iraq without any sort of post-pull out strategy.
This implies that the Republicans made a rational decision to a) invade, b) occupy, c) de-Baathify, d) disband the Iraqi military, e) Everything Else. You can’t bitch about your opponent being irrational if you have no rational response. By the way, why does nobody in the media seem to bring up the 1993 Congressional vote to defund and withdraw from Somalia, as a comparison? We forget even recent history, it seems. The Republicans want to portray the desire to get the heck out of Iraq as something unprecedented, when it is actually very precedented. For that matter, why has Congress completely abdicated its responsibility for declaring war? We haven’t had an actual declared war since 1945, yet we’ve been shooting at other people almost every day since then. Separation of powers? That Constitution sure is a pesky thing.
Ratatouille is a cool flick. The Boy was very amused, naturally. I can’t believe how awesome the water looked. I know, that makes me a huge geek, looking at the rendering. Sue me.
Anyway, the story is very cute, and the animation is awesome. The end credits are a great retro look, and the short film played before the main movie is also quite funny.
Oh, and the wifi at McAlisters Deli almost reaches the theater, but is very usable at the ice cream parlor. 😉
And, now I’ve gotten the N770 to post on my main site, too. Geek Power!
There’s a great deal of scientific information in this interview, but it’s interesting enough even for laymen to read, I think. The basic story is that fructose and sucrose are not the kinds of sugars we evolved to consume in large quantities, so they mess up our body chemistry and make us pigs. The good doctor even demonizes orange juice (any kind, including organic fresh-squeezed).
Good news, though – eating oranges is good for you. Some of this is sort of common sense, if you think about how we ate 20,000 years ago compared to now. Our bodies haven’t changed in that time, but our diets have changed vastly. Nobody drank orange juice before industrialization; they ate oranges. Nobody drank sodas; they drank water. So, those people who decry processed foods, here’s another data point to use in your quest to return to a diet better designed for our natural metabolisms.
I thought I saw this headline on my newspage this morning: IKEA set to approve new nuclear mission to N.Korea.
IKEA, IAEA, what’s the difference, right?
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