This is a quick follow-up to an earlier post in which I laid out a hypothesis about what makes people fat. At the end of that post, I mentioned that I was going to modify my diet for a week to test out some of the basic ideas that underlie that hypothesis…specifically, that weight loss [...]
Kara and I are plugging steadily away on the Medifast diet, a program consisting of 5 daily high-protein meals of approximately 100 Calories each plus a “lean and green” protein-vegetable combination and a few condiments and healthy fats. The weight loss is steady, and at first it’s fairly impressive. Medifast just barely qualifies a low-carbohydrate [...]
So Kara and I are back on Medifast, one of the diets we’ve tried and failed before. I don’t really want to get into it too much (yet) since I’m sick of this blog becoming a chronicle of diets we’ve blown, and I don’t like feeling like dieting is becoming a hobby. But I would [...]
So unless our bickering leaders in Congress can reach an agreement on how to allocate funds for the next year, the “non-essential” portions of United States federal government are poised to shut down tonight at midnight. Can’t we all just get along? At least, that’s the way the issue is being portrayed in the media. [...]
Friday, February 18, 2011
Last night the House of Representatives voted to withdraw $330 million of federal funding from Planned Parenthood. At the same time they voted to spend $1.5 billion more on defense, including $7.5 million for the Army to sponsor a NASCAR car. In defense of the cuts, Republicans in the House gave inflammatory, vulgar speeches, one [...]
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
As I write this, Kara and I are winding across Northeastern Indiana on Amtrak’s Capitol Limited, the successor to the famous cross-country B&O route. We’re heading home from St. Louis to DC for the holidays, and we decided several months ago that we would make the trip by train. Taking the train is neither the [...]
Friday, December 17, 2010
The United States Senate is set to deliberate the future of a morally reprehensible policy enacted 17 years ago to distract from even more morally reprehensible public opinion. The fact that we are even engaging in a national discourse about whether gay people ought to be able to serve in the military disgusts me viscerally. [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Coffee is one of those things that makes you wonder what the hell is wrong with the Midwestern United States. The DC area is not exactly known for great coffee, but people there still like to look down their noses at Starbucks. Out there, Starbucks is an inferior mass-produced product. Here in the Midwest, Starbucks [...]
Saturday, September 25, 2010
So not long after I put up the Mitchell Heisman post, someone named Steven Carter left this comment: I don’t know either of you. However, I do know two traits that you both share. Bloated egos and a sense that you are just so damn deep and intelligent that the world just doesn’t understand you. [...]
Friday, September 24, 2010
Well, Mr. Heisman, you certainly picked an interesting way to remove yourself from this mortal coil. You shot yourself on the steps of a church and left behind a dense, immaculately researched, 1900-page suicide note that sets out all of the reasons why life on Earth is an untenable proposition for you. This could easily [...]