Archive for the 'Thoughts' CategoryBrilliantI stumbled upon this while I was looking for ideas on hypotheticals: DEAR ABBY: I am a 36-year-old college dropout whose lifelong ambition was to be a physician. I have a very good job selling pharmaceutical supplies, but my heart is still in the practice of medicine. I do volunteer work at the local hospital [...] Invisible Woman, ReduxI don’t know why I torture myself with this. So, remember when I was speculating on what Nicole Johnson was saying with the Invisible Woman: According to her analogy, is the family and the husband suppose to be the cathedral that women are building for God? Is that the correlation? If so, then isn’t she [...] Food MarketingExcellent talk by Michael Pollan about food, how food is marketed to us, and how we can make real choices about food and nutrition. The food industry spends $32 billion dollars a year marketing food to us. Why People Are Stretched So ThinElizabeth Warren, Harvard Law Professor, speaks at UC Berkely in mid-2007 (pre-crash) about the landscape of the American middle class. I watched this in 2008, and this video along with other books and documentaries solidified for me why people are stressed out, have no time, unwilling to serve, etc. It completely frames the way I [...] New Dietary RestrictionsSo, I’ve gone insane again. During my last run at insanity, I gave up meat for lent. This time, I’m going to not eat meat for dinner for all of 2010. So the rules are: No meat (flesh). Stock is ok, and eggs are ok. Dinner means third (or second) meal of the day. It’s [...] |
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