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What is he going to do? Get a divorce?
Sure. Why not? “Starter marriages” (no kids, usually minimal property) are fairly common these days. There’s not much to extract from the hubby. He learns a lesson but not too expensively.
Jared Diamond: the Stephen Jay Gould of the 21st century?
Gluten-free is for real. After Novak Djokovic won three Grand Slams in 2011 by going gluten-free I stopped my naysaying and got on board the hype train. In three weeks I was hitting 250 mph serves, running 20 miles a day and tearing phone books in half.
Seriously, I think what really benefits people who go gluten-free is that it forces them to start eating low-carb which is for real I think.
I think about 1% of the people on gluten-free diets have a serious allergy to gluten foods, and thus the health benefits for them are dramatic.
As for the rest? Just your usual SWPL status-whoring trendy nonsense.
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Religiosity and crime have a strong inverse relationship.
http://www.amazon.com/More-God-Less-Crime-Matters/dp/1599473941/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344345347&sr=1-1&keywords=more+god+less+crime
Truism 1: Virtually 100% of the lower classes are religious. Camel, needle, rich man etc.
Truism 2: Virtually all violent offenders are from the lower classes.
If you pick nonviolent poor people, you will also find that they all happen to be religious. Starting with a different group the researchers would have come to the opposite conclusion. Their results are total junk.
#3: When my wifed asked the dreaded question, “Would you still love me if I got fat?” I refused to take the bait. I said that we’d have to look at our diet and together, work something out.
#4: Fast forward 10 years. 2 years after OneSTDV and others convinced me to experiment with the paleo diet, we’ve both trimmed down to college-age weight. The rise in gluten-free diet is a baby step towards accepting the fact that grains are not really meant to be in our diet to a meaningful extent at all and a rationalization of the lies about the evils of fat and cholesterol.
I watched an episode of Modern Family and the wife just casually/obsessively mentioned that she believes that grains should cover half of your plate. This message permeates everywhere.
*criminogenic
I agree that paleo seems to work due to the avoidance of grains. I eat semi-paleo and it helps. One thing that bugs me si that my grandparents and ancestors could eat grains up until 1990 and not get fat. I think paleo works not because zero carbs works, but because there’s something different to how grains and crops are handled now. It can’t just be a coincidence that Monsanto and other companies that pushed GMO crops starting in the 1980s tracks along with the obesity episdemic. Obesity is still portion control and activity, but something isn’t right when a “normal diet” packs on 20 lbs to the average frame. By going paleo, you can disconnect from the modern factory food and crop phenomenom.
“…Nickey Van Exel, 22, committed capital murder…” The neck tattoo was a good predictor to this ultimate ending.
A major factor to keep in mind is that almost everyone in the lower classes believes in some supernatural things, if not outright religion. Religion is correlated with stupidity, and stupidity is correlated with crime.
Religion has been a major contributing factors in a number of atrocities, and more generally has contributed to a great variety of negative outcomes, but 70-IQ-gangbanger on 70-IQ-gangbanger crime isn’t one of them.
from where i sit, if mother jones says gluten free is BS that makes it more likely gluten-free is legit
Response to link 5: It’s beyond comprehensible why a grown adult woman would tattoo her body w/ faces of celebrities…I would not be surprised to find out that she is an unmarried woman. Fanaticism is a form of subservient worship (redudant, I know); although it’s understandable that a woman would be subject to fanaticism, I don’t know if it would be acceptable to take that fanaticism to such extreme. What’s more disturbing is that men too exhibit fanaticism: sports jerseys, hats, jackets, and sneakers. In the black community, young broke black males are highly enthusiastic to purchase a $200 dollar pair of Air Jordans…conspicuous consumption typical of women. My point is not highlight one community, but to demonstrate that this outlandish phenomenon cuts across all ethnicities.
I’m pretty convinced that grain-free is the correct alternative, but damn it I loves me my bread!!
I try to cut back, but those delicious crunchy crusts keep pulling me back in! And really, the most difficult meal to avoid grains is breakfast. What the hell else can you eat? Even if you have eggs you need bread to go along with them.
But also agree the “gluten free” thing is nonsense for the majority of people that claim to be allergic. This is a very urban and — sorry kids — a very Jewish thing. A lot of people just LOVE to have something to complain or bitch about, and to have an excuse to demand special treatment. Remember the giant frenzy over MSG, how it was giving everyone headaches? Well it gives no one headaches, no one on planet earth. Yet that didn’t stop countless nitwits from claiming it did and insisting that their food be MSG free. (Well then I hope they didn’t reach for any Parmesan cheese, cuz it’s loaded with MSG, yet nobody was getting “Parmesan headaches”. Ketchup is too, which is why it makes stuff taste good.)
SOBL1: Check out Wheat Belly.
Comedian Emo had a joke back in the 1980s: “My sister and her husband just found out that the preacher who married them was an impostor, so they aren’t legally married. It’s really sad. Now, she’s going to have to lose all that weight.”
You’re right about the gluten free crowd. I worked as a chef in and around a popular western ski town (health nuts) for a number of years and hardly an order would come in without a no this, sub that, allergic to this that and the other thing request. My roommate at the time was one those types, he was “allergic” to wheat, latex and cats, while his girlfriend claimed to be allergic to dogs, dairy and, I shit you not, all forms of leavening, whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean.
@Mr. Mitchell: “young broke black males are highly enthusiastic to purchase a $200 dollar pair of Air Jordans.” Or rob and kill for them.
…They left out the main reason that women gain weight after the wedding: …
Getting pregnant?
My brother is on a gluten free diet and he isn’t the type to get into fad diets.
@Mr. Mitchell: “young broke black males are highly enthusiastic to purchase a $200 dollar pair of Air Jordans.” Or rob and kill for them.:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/detective-suspects-planned-deadly-robbery-while-ri/nWQgc/
This exact thing just happened in Atlanta.
To the topic of gluten free and food allergies, I just attended a talk by a national speaker with lots of academic credentials. My takeaways:
–A true food allergy is accompanied by the other IgE symptoms, like tight throat, fainting, hives, swollen lips. These are rare.
–In kids, 85% of all true food allergies are due to milk, egg, peanut, soy, ,b>wheat. In adults most true allergies are due to peanut, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
–Many “food allergies” are really cross reactivity to pollen. Eg: apples, peaches, cherry to Birch. Kiwi, banana avocado to Latex plant. Melons and bananas to Ragweed.
–Most food intolerances are due to idiosyncratic stuff like lactase deficiency, histamine contaminants, MSG.
I’ve been studying the Hygiene Hypothesis of asthma and allergies. Increased cleanliness and lack of early exposure to germs in western societies leaves our babies’ immune systems dysfunctional. Babies with early exposure to dogs, manure, dirt, and other babies’ snot benefit from less long term asthma and allergies. Dogs and cats are useful if they drag in dirt and pollen from outdoors. Epidemiologists from Germany and Denmark see the same. Professionally, I’ve worked (in medicine) in urban hospitals and accepted lots of asthma as background noise. Now working in a rural setting, I’m amazed how little asthma we see.
Good that there is more statistical analysis about the relation between crime and religion. Public evangelists, conservative politicians, etc. are always selling the line that Christianity promotes goodly and peaceful behavior, and that if these criminals had only found Jesus beforehand, they would not have committed their appalling crimes. Never bought it.
Professor Robert Blecker is probably the only legal academic who will publicly defend capital punishment. He performed many interviews with death row and life-sentence inmates as part of his research and advocacy. He asked them if they believed in Heaven and Hell. Most said yes. Then he asked them if they thought they were going to Heaven or Hell. Most said Heaven. Blecker was a bit interested in how these inmates readily and uniformly believed that they would go to Heaven. Especially since many of them did not seem particularly sorry or remorseful for their crimes. He asked them why they were so confident that they were going to Heaven, given the things they had done. The inmates simply responded that as long as they repented before they died, they would go to Heaven. Blecker’s anecdotal observations and this cited paper suggest that Christianity (or any religion with easy “absolvitory tenets”) is perhaps having a malign effect on crime and the attitudes of offenders.
I am sure that some prison clergy are sensible people who can serve a beneficial purpose. But a lot of them are gullible types who get snowed by any inmate who can sing Amazing Grace. Even conservative, law & order types like Mike Huckabee and Haley Barbour can be had by some “born again” inmates.