It’s a short little book…Takes maybe an hour to read but it could change your life. Being the chief cook and bottle washer for a bunch of independent cusses, I can’t implement all of the rules…But…I’ll be sneaking them in one at a time till the majority have become habits…
From Amazon…Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual

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This is getting to be a familiar scenario: The Texas Board of Education, preparing to adopt new curriculum standards, makes our schoolchildren’s textbooks a matter of highly partisan wrangling.
When the board met last week to discuss what to teach Texas’s; public school students in history, geography, government and economics, their preliminary druthers were heavily weighted [...]

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Keith Olberman has his say on the Supreme Court ruling…

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The Transcript…
Olbermann: U.S. government for sale
With no limits on campaign financing, corporations will take over the government

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, ‘Countdown’
updated 8:29 p.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 21, 2010
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Finally tonight, as promised, a Special [...]

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A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend as much as they want to support or oppose individual candidates. (via Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending on political campaigns – washingtonpost.com)
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Today I found myself re-reading the latest ebook from Seth Godin (A Weekday Routine Is Always Disrupted By A Weekend… | Coffee Muses) and ended up following the link to Hugh Macleod’s Gapingvoid.com where I stumbled over this gem…A list of 6 ways to execute “Evil Plans” within a large company. Number 5 struck a [...]

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