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One of my favorite studies on caloric restriction and the effects of dieting on appetite, metabolism, and brain function is actually 50 years old. Ancel Benjamin Keys, PhD., did a groundbreaking study about the effects of a restricted calorie diet on healthy men during a 6-month period. I’m very, very thankful that he did this […]

Amanda regularly takes “advice” columns directed toward women and their hetero dating habits to task. If you’re not following these (particularly if you’re a guy), you should. With advice like this, it’s no wonder a lot of guys keep telling me that they find women really confusing (I’ve never found myself very confusing) and women

Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) Stumbled across this, and it reminded me of a couple of my posts: “On Merit. And Sex. Of Course” and “More On Why Power is All About Women.” Just to reiterate, once again, that there’s nothing new under the sun. Just keep saying the same damn things, over and over and over

No. I’m not watching Earthsea tonight, in all it’s whitewashed glory. Author Nalo Hopkinson and Leguin each rant about it. Remind me never to sell the rights to anything I’ve written that’s really close to my heart. I’ll end up screaming at the television (apparently, according to the director, it’s a “multicultural” adventure because there

The Big Dogs from corporate are in town today, so it’s been a bit of a “busy” (this is a relative term) morning, prepping some stuff for Blaine, my boss. I’ve got a few hours before their plane shows up, but they’ll be here all week, so things could be busy with meetings I’m invited

Yes, seriously. Really. I mean it. I’m going to go and find plots for four short stories that’ve got lots of character and setting and not much else. That’s pretty much always the story of my stories. In the mean time, check out the blogroll, rail against the idiots, snicker about power to the people

I’m a sucker for war propaganda: my master’s work looked at propaganda aimed at the recruitment of women in the ranks of the African National Congress (as violent fighters & activists – otherwise known as “the recruitment of terrorists”) in South Africa during the 80s, and I got to page through lots of goodies. So,

“Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.” – Dave Barry “Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who

Because I haven’t been keeping up with Jon Stewart. Here, John presents “a step-by-step demonstration of what editing a book at 3am looks like from the writer’s own eyes.” It is absolutely, inarguably accurate.

A roundup of thoughts on The Obesity Panic, stolen from BigFatBlog: Commentary from Nick Gillespie: Thus the United States turns from nation building abroad to nation bodybuilding at home. In a world beset by terrorism, poverty, and malnutrition, who could have imagined that being fat would become the subject not simply of the derision and