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“Does caffeine intake protect from Alzheimer’s disease?” One

So now that the lovely Mrs. Wisdom is out of town for a few days — visiting kin in Utah — I’m free to go hog wild ’round the old homestead. Which — my being a suburbanesque, consumerist white guy and all — means blasting some old Marshall Tucker Band, munching sourdough pretzels (dipped in a piquant Chile Tepin salsa), and watching political thrillers from the 70s (are there any

The American Prospect tells Ted Rall, Mike Moore, John Pilger, et al., to shut up already about their stupid Caspian oil conspiracy fantasies. That’s right. The American Prospect. God bless ’em… Afghanistan itself has very small reserves of natural gas and virtually no oil. The country’s only importance, at least in theory, is that it could serve as a transit point for energy from neighboring countries. Yet oddly enough, this

Bill Quick inspired me to go revisit protein wisdom’s first day of posting, December 17, 2001. Here’s what I wrote: Sullivan’s Sentiment, & Hey, has anybody even checked Geraldo’s ‘stache? Most of the time I find myself in agreement with Andrew Sullivan. But in his