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Aisle Be $eeing You

Highly nutritious foods are often low in cost. Among them are bananas, carrots, potatoes, whole­-wheat flour, and dried beans—the sort of high fiber foods that nutritionists now recommend. They also tend to come with minimal packaging—an environmental plus. - Wellness Made Easy: 365 Tips for Better Health , by  the University of California, Berkeley  Wellness Letter A s with the taking of a daily cold swim, cold shower or cold bath - or the eating of hot peppers - under which early resistance finds itself vanquished by a habituated second-wind relish of the wholesome fruits of disciplined hardihood, an adherence while at the grocer's over each 30-day cycle to a cost ceiling - $100, say - can apply a whetstone to the blades of the soul all its own. In a time when it is not at all uncommon for urban humans to spend $5 or more each weekday upon the "food" under the black (they're only gold-plated) arches, or at the espresso bar, or double that thus at both, to say nothin

Livid at Boudica

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J ust discovered on the  Facebook page  for Unz.org, sponsor of two rounds, so far, of an Historical Research Competition tied to its vast archive of historic magazines, thence to mining for Wikipedian ore: Irene Duma  My first discovery - no women on the judging panel. Some things never change. Hmm...maybe by repressing and ignoring women, and diminishing their value and contributions, we are actually perpetuating this stagnation? Gotta go see if the archives will shed some light... May 13, 2012 at 4:34pm La Mizz Russian Legislative Assembly So Right You Guys! Though in the event last October two of the four prizes awarded by judges Andrew Bacevich, Paul Gottfried, Razib Khan, Michael Lind, Ron Unz and Thomas Woods found themselves pinned to brassieres, and the other two to the athletic cups of the prevailing hegemon, the lack of any prior estrogenetic surplus beneath the robes made the judicial corruption so unmasked - with the chest hair on the bench shaved by fully half, would not

The Only Thing Better Than a Dry Front, &c.

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S ometimes when you try to explain the productivity gains from increased investment per worker, you're so overcome by the beauty of Austrian-school capital theory that you lose sight of considerations that, hard as it is for us to imagine, are in the redemptive contemplation far more sublime still - like remedial partisan re-branding: During a discussion about ongoing challenges to the economy Thursday,  Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young referred to Hispanic workers as "wetbacks,"  an ethnic slur used to describe migrant workers. He has since apologized. “My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes,” Young  told Alaska public radio station KRBD . “It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.” The term "wetback" is a pejorative term that has been used to describe workers from Latin American countries who swim across the Rio Grande to reach the United States. F rom the hitmakers who brought you "TSA-Ge

Your Honor System

Convicted Massachusetts rapist caught in Maine after 34 years ... Gary Allen Irving, now 52, was sentenced to  life in prison  in 1979 after being found guilty on three counts of rape in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, the previous year, said Trooper Kenneth Gaetz, a Massachusetts State Police spokesman. The judge in the case stayed the sentence for two days, allowing Irving to go home and make arrangements before starting his prison term. During that time, Irving fled ...

Roman Charges

Meth-Dealing Catholic Priest Who Owned Porn Shop Plans to Confess Guilt

The Mixing Links

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Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky by John Carroll The sixteen or so pages in this free preview of one of the few books to discuss at length the German egoist philosopher 'Max Stirner' (Johann Kaspar Schmidt; 1806-1856) are among its most suggestive Children of the Storm: Education and Social Mobility Widely-hailed book by Paul Tough on how character traits instilled in children - motivation, patience, persistence, self-restraint - best undergird purely instrumental, intellectual and cognitive aptitudes The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire The Dorothy Day Few of Us Know Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century, by Eric Hobsbawm Sam Leith on Eric Hobsbawm’s posthumous lament for a vanished world The Future of History The history lessons outlined in the draft National Curriculum are too prescriptive, Anglocentric and narrow –

Drake's Progress

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The background music reminds me of Nick Drake. And as I revised this post just now, the commercial ran again on TVLand. Molly Drake and Nick Drake shopping on Oxford Street, 1956 I n the case of Molly's Poor Boy flowed to River Man maturity, her Saturday Sun shone Bryter Layter in a Northern Sky itself on the Way to Blue before Day is Done, before the Pink Moon and before Sunday, the Fruit Tree didn't grow far from the seed : since her music was One of These Things First - among the Things Behind the Sun, he was Know ... Parasite out for a Free Ride , but instead a Black Eyed Dog of a Harvest Breed without a Fly on him. Mother & Son: Molly & Nick Drake Now a brand new album gives host/producer David Garland the opportunity to show that the songwriter who had the greatest influence on Nick Drake was his mother, Molly Drake. The Songs Of Molly Drake, Mother Of Nick Drake Never-before-heard songs recorded in the '50s at the Drake family home. Hear "How Wild The Wi

Guilt Edgy

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Body-shaming sex products Say goodbye to the penis pump. Today's insecurity-inducing erotic novelty items are much more insidious ... one of [the print ads for Playtex's fresh + sexy "before & after intimate wipes" “What, no during wipes?” quipped a friend] features the winking line, "A clean beaver always finds more wood."

Under the Boing Tree, or, I Hatha Hots For You, or, Buddha Call

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This is  so  hot. And to all my gentle ladyfolk, if your teacher, styling himself Friend, should call his school "Anusara", please to adopt posture I call Watching The Back, lest you find your ashrammed.    "Trending Now" at Yahoo!: Bikram sex scandal Bikram Choudhury is currently embroiled in a sex scandal that has sent shock waves through the yoga community ... In light of the recent sex scandal regarding Anusara Yoga founder John Friend ... See also Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here Since the baby boomers discovered yoga, the arousal, sweating, heavy breathing and states of undress that characterize yoga classes have led to predictable results.

PIXy Stiffs

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"Trending Now" at Yahoo!: 4-year-old living on sugar, caring for dead mom’s body More  4 - year - old Living On Sugar  Headlines

Icy You

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The Mens' Bathing Pond at Hampstead Heath , London A cold shower every morning, if you are physically fitted for it, is an excellent will exercise, which more than pays for itself in its effects upon your health. - Henry Hazlitt,  The Way to Will-Power (1922) R upert Shortt reviews Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal by the English critic/essayist/novelist/poet Al Alvarez  (1929-): "Among the other passions that define him is cold-water swimming, chiefly on Hampstead Heath. He has taken the plunge several times a week in all weathers for decades, unless ill or away. Pondlife: A swimmer’s journal is a paean to what the author knows as one of life’s three great Ss – the others are sex and sleep. "Having won early acclaim as a poet and critic, Alvarez was smitten by the United States and almost settled there. But the pull of his roots in north-west London proved too strong. At the centre of this domain stands the heath. As well as offering a taste of the countryside thr

Put de LvM in de cocoa mug

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S o I learn today of the Swiss Mises Institute, and I Google it : Did you mean:   "swiss  miss "   What say you, The Google Images? Showing results for   "swiss  miss " Search instead for   "swiss mises" Should The Google keep giving me The Runaround, stay tuned for my forthcoming von-ville sketch, "Lu's on Thirst" ...
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I Am Mumbai Curious (Saffron, White and Green ) Let's talk about sex For decades, octogenarian Dr Mahinder Watsa has been ruffling the feathers - and bed sheets - of Mumbai with his open and candid approach to copulation, writes Amrit Dhillon ...  In this highly conservative society, sex is enjoyed - witness the 1.2 billion population - but any discussion of it is regarded as obscene. ... Today India has numerous sex experts but Watsa was in the vanguard, talking openly about the subject in magazines and newspapers at a time when Bollywood films used to cut away from a couple about to kiss and show shots of bees and flowers instead, so prudish were attitudes towards public displays of intimacy. ...  On television recently, censors bleeped out the word "period", even though it was being used by a schoolgirl talking about a class, or lesson. ... According to [a popular] myth, each time semen is "wasted", the body and mind are made weaker, and the former is de

Everybody Wing Chun Inflight

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Hong Kong Airlines staff at Wing Chun training. Cheers as passenger attacks air crew Incidents of rage on flights between the city and the mainland are on the rise, as witness tells of passenger who punches stewardess Violent attacks on cabin crew during flights between Hong Kong and the mainland are becoming so common they often go unreported, it has emerged. The threat posed by unruly passengers and a mob mentality was highlighted on Thursday, after a physical and verbal attack on a flight attendant was loudly cheered and applauded by others on board. ... To deal with such incidents, Hong Kong Airlines cabin crew receive compulsory training in Wing Chun, a martial art. The airline's corporate communications department said its flight attendants have been given basic Wing Chun training since May 2011 to boost their health and strength, and to give them more confidence to deal with emergencies on planes. Katherine Cheung, an instructor at the Wing Chun Union in Wan Chai, said recru

Everything's Wrong at the Same Time It's Wright

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The New York Times' famous retraction of a 1920 article I t might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years. -   Editorial  in  The New York Times , October 9, 1903, two months and eight days before ... you know. And don't miss the paper's  Apollo-Age apology , almost fifty years on, for its vaccuum-tubed twitting in 1920 of one Professor Goddard      His Plan Is Not Original over the ... impossibility of a rocket's transit ... From the Earth to the Moon. nowiknow.com via "Did You Know?" filler in  Reader's Digest ,  April 2013 , p. 109

Surgeon, You Essay, or, Dr. Chekhov and Mr. Scott, or, Strawberry Man of Letters 23 Times 3 by The Doctor's Johnson

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My sole appearance, to the best of my knowledge, in a medical journal ( first paragraph, and footnote ). Though I am a patient man, I can only hope that in regard to my role in any such mentions in future, it is not as a patient, man. 

Eighteen-Tenths of the Law

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F ans of the great lost American essayist  John Jay Chapman (1862-1933), and Internet quote hounds in general, may have read that People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.* I was amused to recall Chapman's line upon seeing this at Yahoo! - Is this the most dangerous job in America? Being a repo man is tough enough, but wait till you find out just what it is these people repossess Have to wear bulletproof vests *BONUS: DSL. s Who Liked Chapman On Taking Bones From Dogs Also Liked: Nothing is economic if it is not electric. - "Leitmotiv" on the title page of  The Electro-Individualistic Manifesto  ("The Anti-Thesis of the Communistic Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and the Synthesis of Social-Individualism") by Heinrich Charles (1913), "Dedicated to the Pioneers of Science, the Inventors and the Jovians." "Electricity will solve the Social p

Throneward Bound

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I t seems that when a Bostonian drops his Rs, he also  drops his arse . Just don't tell him about  this , courtesy the men and women of wealth and taste - attained more often than not, it seems, when finding their health in waste - at The Harriet Carter Gift Catalog, or he won't be off the family throne until it's coronation - or perhaps coronary - time after he, legs long since asleep, strains his way to his next 300.
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        Joe Weider, Requiescat in pace Robert Galbraith/Reuters Joe Weider, Bodybuilding Legend, Dies By ROBERT D. McFADDEN   9:57 PM ET Mr. Weider helped popularize the sport worldwide and cultivated one of its biggest stars — a charismatic young weightlifter named Arnold Schwarzenegger. I n 1977-1978, aged 15-16, fresh from weekly mail-order installments of the Charles Atlas Course (with DYNAMIC TENSION)  I took out a three-year subscription to Weider's monthly  Muscle Builder  magazine, read  Pumping Iron  and saw the movie based on it, and with a friend took the bus three hours north from Cincinnati to Columbus to attend the 1977 edition of the Weider-sponsored IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, where among a thrusting crowd I managed to get my copy of  Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder  signed by the contest's legendary six-time (1970-1975) winner. We even pre-ordered tickets for the 1978 contest, though a family move to Connecticut put paid to my repeat attendance. I can even
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The Parry Queene by Edmund Fencer A Rocky Mountain friend writes:       My son won 3rd place tonight. He fenced very well this evening. Bravo, lad. He can show his prowess when seeking approval from a homeowners' association under the proverb about good fencing making for good neighbors. From the listings at  TV Garde : 9:00 pm  Deloitte and Touché  (TFC - The Fencing Channel):  Touché helps Deloitte foil criminal penalties during an IRS audit with a sudden lunge and the plea,  "Crime doesn't  é pée ". Parody-Porn Boxes We'd Like to See: Just the Tip     From the makers of  Three Musky Tears :  After noticing that even when taking  épée he lunged at the urinal,   she had learned to sabre his every advance - especially the last one, the merest recall of which could make her feel feint. With Parry Maysin and Randee Riposte. Featuring the hit "Point in Line" by MaDonna Summer.

Wooster Shot

D uring a phone call with me in the summer of 1990, a San Diego-area friend from my NYU years and sharing, almost, a surname with an English prince from the annals of the comics pages, alerted me to an attack upon my literary acumen, published in the issue of  reason  from February of that year, by a young right-movement  apparatchik  sharing, fully, a surname with an English toff from the annals of the comic novels.  "The most unfortunate magazine review I've ever read" , he in an installment on English journals of his regular column on magazines judged,  reason ably or otherwise according to taste, the section profiling, favorably, the English monthly  Encounter , in an article on English and American literary magazines I had published just over three years prior in the Christmas 1986 issue of  National Review. As it happened,  primus inter pares  among my projects over the months since the diasporational mailboxing of the issue at issue, within the graduate history pro

Montaigreene, or, You Essay Today

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Montaigreene, or, You Essai Today T homas Karshan in the TLS for March 22, 2013, reviewing Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French, editors, Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time , and Randi Salomon, Virginia Woolf's Essayism : Woolf's own essays, with their clouds of subjectivity, would seem resolutely Montaignean, not Baconian. She writes on classic Montaignean subjects such as sickness, wandering, the blind hunger of Empire, the will-o'-the-wisp of the self; she insists that the "proper use" of the essay is "to express one's personal peculiarities"; and in "Modern Essays" she reports enthusiastically on the rebirth, with Max Beerbohm, of the essayistic "I", lost since the glory days of Lamb and Hunt. But it is noticeable how much more comfortable she is writing "we" or "one" than "I", and sheltering her thoughts under those more impersonal pronouns' broader canopies. Even her essay "

Headmastur, or, Everybody Knows That Strokin' Ain't Allowed In School

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On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:06 AM, A federal attorney   wrote: Name of school is funny.  Suggests that when kids graduate and go to college, they will be ready to do the mental masturbation required in higher education. http://www.thedenverchannel. com/news/front-range/aurora/ aurora-substitute-teacher- caught-masturbating-in-class AURORA, Colo. - A substitute teacher at Aurora West College Prep Academy  I'm ... Auroring with laughter already. has been arrested, accused of masturbating in a special needs classroom, 7NEWS confirmed. He probably heard, while growing up, his mom say to his older sister before her wedding, "Now, dear, a man has 'special needs' ...", and had a flashback. As to just how 7NEWS "confirmed" said wanking, we don't need to know. There were at least boys in the classroom  when the incident occurred at 2 p.m. Thursday. Thank heaven "there were at least boys" present. Had the classroom been all girls, the cause of solo