Coke from a glass bottle poured into a cup full of ice: beverage heaven. I reckon my teeth will be falling out long before time due to a serious addiction to Coca Cola. For me there’s only one beverage that compares: a well brewed coffee. At the moment I’m enjoying a strong smoky coffee called […]

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It’s interesting to observe the political Left at this period in time. It isn’t just the state of fluctuating and redefining of leftist positions as they relate to 21st-century challenges, it’s also the fact that more and more liberal goals seem to be coming into conflict with each other.
This is a good example. […]

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Dear friends,
I write because I see that your Paragon of Reasoning, Morgan Spurlock - the man who finally leaked to the world hard evidence of the villainous evil of Ronald McDonald - Morgan Spurlock - the man who proved for once and for all that fast food is fundamentally, inherently, horribly depraved - Morgan Spurlock […]

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Ted Mayhall is a beef patty short of a hamburger. He’s one of three Mississippi state legislators responsible for proposing a bill which would make it illegal for Mississippi restaurants to “repeatedly” serve extremely obese people. Is it a ridiculous law to propose? Of course. I would write at more length […]

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When faced with any problem the first reaction of some is to start shrieking hysterically, “the government must do something!” Unfortunately the government is singularly terrible at doing even the most basic things well: like keeping confidential data, umm, confidential and not losing the details of millions of people as happened a few weeks ago. […]

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As a child I was always told to eat my dinner and keep my mouth shut; ask no questions, no derogatory comments about greens, no complaints or smart-arsed remarks. Seemingly as an adult that advice might remain shrewd. A year ago a ruling in Belfast’s High Court had journalists, newspaper editors, and commentators choking on […]

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We’ve recently mentioned cellulosic ethanol, fuel created from a good two-thirds of what we’re currently throwing away, and what many believe will be the future of energy. In fact the more time one spends thinking about it, the more inevitable it seems that we’ll eventually be mining our own landfills, for cellulose, for plastics […]

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Andrew Tyler has a piece in today’s Guardian which suggests that veganism is the new vegetarianism. It seems that being a vegetarian in modern Western society has become so common that the moral case against eating animals must fall exclusively to the vegans.
I’m with them on this, actually. I’ve long thought that being […]

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I hate fine dining, generally.
The food is awkward and pretentious and I just don’t have the willpower to acquire a taste for most of it. But I don’t want to eat junk either, and whenever I go out for a good meal I’ve always had a difficult time describing the kind of thing I really […]

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