I remember seeing an old video on google (circa 1950's), part of a documentary on Zen Buddhism, where some Zen monks... I believe it was in china or japan, in what looked like a very serious monaster…

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I have a friend who will only eat short pasta, like penne. Another friend sticks to long pasta - linguini, spaghetti. I thought that was a bit bizarre until I read about Heather Hill, 39, whose diet …

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Ok well, I'm a sufferer of this condition, and the winter in my area has been long and harsh. The fall was grey, dreary, and cold to begin with. And the winter started off a month earlier than normal…

Today I heard a radio report that alarmed me. The topic was the discussions going on in the US Congress on how to balance the budget in the face of an astronomically increasing deficit. Congress (bot…

I did some googling, and there's real concern that this is a hoax. For one thing, the warning has been around since 2004 at least, and every single warning or news story since then just references t…

Currently there is a lot of calls from the right wing in the united states that taxation is equivalent to robbery. Specifically I am interested in how progressive taxation compares to robbery. Prog…