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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

“A New York City lawyer has filed suit against the four big fast-food corporations, saying their fatty foods are responsible for his client

Via Subaverage: Introducing PossePops, the “solid cold chillin’ [ice cream bar] treat” that comes wrapped in the wisdom of the street. To wit: here’s the message adorning the wrapping of the “Knock You Out” bar — vanilla ice cream with a crunchy milk chocolate coating! Yea Boyz + Girlz, check this out! Using drugs is wack. Don’t play yourself out, ’cause drugs’ll knock you out and put you out of

Great post on the bureaucratization of the modern academy and the outcome of the “culture wars” by English Prof Erin O’Connor — who in her inspired analysis seems (to me, at least) to be channeling Christina Hoff Sommers: […] bureaucracy is not at all politically neutral; it is, indeed, the engine of central planning, and as such is the far left’s organizational mode of choice. As in socialism, so in

From Ha’aretz: “Military officials: Use of F-16 was a mistake“ Amid scathing international criticism of the Gaza air strike, Israeli military officials have said that it was a mistaken decision to have dropped a one-ton bomb from an F-16 warplane in order to assassinate the man who headed Israel’s most-wanted list. Senior officials said Wednesday that had Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer known that innocents were

“A Houston attorney will not face charges in connection with a fatal road rage shooting,” ABC News in Houston reports. David Russo was cleared by a grand jury in the shooting death of Marcus Peacock. According to Russo, he fired four shots at Peacock after [Peacock] punched out his window following a traffic incident on the corner of Richmond and Shepherd back in April. And fire four shots he should