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Worst Diets of the Decade (That's Fit)

Dec 28th 2009 1:47PM The Master Cleanse is not meant to be a "diet" but rather a type of fasting that allows the body to expel toxins and heal in a way that it ordinarily can't. If some people abuse it, that has nothing to do with its effectiveness as a cleanse. The anonymous author of this little article didn't do the proper homework and misrepresented something that has helped many, which is a shame.

Michael Moore Film Blames the Rich for Economic Crisis (Politics Daily)

May 26th 2009 2:23PM Knowles is wrong on one important point - "practically everyone" did not got caught up in the economic exhuberance of the last ten years. The wages of most Americans were stagnant and the wealth gap widened to historic proportions. The rich mostly benefitted from the CEO-friendly policies of the Bush disaster to a far greater degree than the rest of us. Many people "got drunk on credit," not because they were living high on the hog but because most Americans had to borrow just to make ends meet since their wages weren't increasing while their essential costs, like healthcare, were shooting through the roof. Conservatives want to "look forward and not dwell on the past" because they don't want to take responsibility for Bush, whose administration was a pitiful, divisive, intolerant and incompetent disaster. But hey, don't take my word for it--just look at the results of the last election. The only people who did well under Bush were the super-rich, until their greed went too far and the whole financial system collapsed. If Moore wants to make a movie about the collapse that's his right, but he won't be telling me anything I don't already know.

Popular Pakistani Singer Allegedly Murdered by Her Family (Spinner)

May 6th 2009 1:06PM Just another reminder that fundamentalism (of any stripe: Muslim, Christian, etc.) is a cancer of the mind. Nothing could be more arrogant, divisive and liable to produce persecution and killing than the claim of possessing the perfect, infallible, certain truth. Literal religion is a stain on humanity.

Online Bullying a Public Health Threat, Says CDC (Switched)

Aug 27th 2008 1:03PM Anonymity has to be one of the biggest factors in any form of cyber bullying or flaming or hate speech. When insecure, hateful people are given the opportunity to act without the possibility of personal responsibility, they take it to extremes. It's a form of cowardice. They would never say to anyone face-to-face the things they write online, because they would be chastised and humiliated and scorned. But online, their personal demons are given free reign, to the annoyance of the rest of us. When our children are targeted, the effect is much worse, since most kids don't have the maturity to realize that cyber bullies are saying much more about their own character than the people they are bullying.

Libby Withdraws Appeal, Berger Still Laughing (Politics Daily)

Dec 10th 2007 2:00PM "Trap someone into perjury"? Nobody had to trap Libby--he clearly lied freely, repeatedly and of his own accord. Only in this way were the perjury charge inevitable. Had he chosen to tell investigators the truth, he wouldn't have been charged. But he was willing to lie to protect his boss, Dick Cheney, to keep the public from knowing that Cheney had ordered a dirty, unethical smear campaign against Joe Wilson. Cheney was enraged that Wilson had the audacity to expose Cheney's nuke assertions for the manipulative deceptions that they were. Since Dick had no evidence to disprove Wilson, he decided to attack Wilson's character instead, but wanted to remain the man behind the curtain lest people see him for the angry, bitter, inept ideologue he has now proven to be. Someone in that White House committed a crime by disclosing Plame's identity--this fact is now virtually indisputable. What a shameful pack of lying losers.

Should The Da Vinci Code Come with a Disclaimer? (Cinematical)

May 12th 2006 4:10AM If the Da Vinci Code requires a disclaimer, then so does the Bible. Neither is an accurate account of history. Both use stories that have some small basis in fact and embellish them. Hollywood entertains by dramatizing conflict where none previously existed. Religion controls by claiming magic and miracles where none previously existed. Both are corporate manipulations. Anyone who thinks the Bible has any greater claim on history than The Da Vinci Code doesn't know history. Superstition, myth and fable ain't fact, just like fiction.