To my bitter colleagues

I can understand your bitterness that the nutritional and herbal remedy industry is not regulated nearly as closely as the pharmaceutical industry. However, I can’t buy your arguments that the FDA(Food and Drug Administration) process is based entirely on scientific and clinical evidence and that alternative remedies haven’t been proven to be safe and effective [...]

Freakin music meme

I’ll follow “Brian’s”:http://phillybri.blogspot.com/2005/08/hows-your-high-school-top-100-holding.html lead on this, mainly because I’m avoiding work. These are the top 25 hits from 1990, the year I graduated high school. “Source”:http://www.musicoutfitters.com/resources.htm. For the record, 1973 (my birth year) was _way_ better. Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Allman Brothers, Temptations, David Bowie, and on and on. These songs I’ve bolded and even [...]

30 cents overnight! Sheesh.

DFL was right. We will be wishing for yesterday’s gas prices.

Snake oil and drugs

If you’ve ever dealt with Kevin Trudeau, chances are you were scammed. Trudeau is known for pushing the bounds of legality and decency, even a few times landing on the wrong side of the law. He spent time in prison for faking credit card applications and charging over $122K. And now he’s back to obliterate [...]

N’awlins

My heart goes out to everybody directly affected by Katrina. The coasts of Mississippi and Louisiana are disasters in progress. Most of the people still in the storm had essentially no way out. They are the homeless, the poor, those without transportation. They are men, women, fathers, mothers, children. And they need your help. Right [...]

I Don’t Want To Talk About It

??I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression?? Terry Real’s ??I Don’t Want to Talk About It?? discusses how men cope with the unique pressure of manhood in our society. Depression has emerged as a seemingly feminine trait, perhaps to the detriment of all. Men are supposed to swallow [...]

George Bush does yoga

See George Bush in Virabhadrasana I, Virabhadrasana III, Utthita Trikonasana, Salamba Sirsana I, Upavista Konasana, and more! (Link to site’s home page.) There’s also the Bush Yoga store, but I don’t think I’m going to be buying the Bush Yoga thong. I need to get out and get a life. It’s Friday night fercryinoutloud.

High runner’s lunge in beginning classes

Don poses a question in his yoga journal. The question, as I read it, is Is it appropriate to direct beginning yoga students to do high runner’s lunge? As he notes, sometimes the abdomen gets in the way, and it may be a problem to perform the pose with correct alignment. And, sometimes, someone is [...]

Financial advice I won’t be taking

We’ll set aside for a moment the fact that I don’t invest in the major drug producers nor biotechs. But even without that, this is a bit of “advice”:http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/comment/johnreese/10239729.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA that I _won’t_ be taking: bq. You’re clearly taking a chance when investing in Pfizer — legal exposure, public complaints about Big Pharma profits, potential government [...]

Thanks Brian for this image

It’s so funny I have to repost it: