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Had not seen this particular video but several others of a shorter nature echoed this gentleman's sentiments. It is all blown out of proportion. I hate to say that my scientific colleagues might do this, but some of them "follow the money." They write an article on global warming (or global...

I would agree that global climate change is real. The argument centers on why, not if. The issue will ALWAYS be that climate changes on its own without any help from us. Heck, in the 1880s, it was deemed that we were enduring a mini-ice age. Now a little less than 150 years later, the...

True jambalaya will have pork sausage but chorizo is the wrong ethnicity and would toss off the spices. Smoked Cajun-style sausage might be mistaken for chorizo visually but the spice balance in the ground-up content would be different. Ideally, jambalaya would only have pork sausage or deer...

Leg lifts where she moves her knee towards her chest would use the thigh somewhat. But she might complain about abdominal stress near the "abs" on the belly. That gets involved when doing that type of flexing when starting horizontally. (Vertically, gravity assists and the strain is less.)

I don't drink warm beer. Actually, if you get right down to it, I don't drink cold beer that often either. First, with liver issues that include non-alcoholic sources of cirrhosis, alcohol isn't welcome in my diet. But second, when I was a young musician on Bourbon Street, I decided I didn't...

At least when the subject is beer, the brew temperature is also considered the best temperature at which to drink your beer. American beers tend to be cold-brewed whereas German beers are often warm-brewed. Don't know about UK beers.

Exercise is exercise, but that one doesn't use the thigh muscle, which is THE primary calorie burner of the human body.

Best of luck with that. We have determined that my mother-in-law has stopped walking in the nursing home. She is too weak and we fear that her tumors are weighing her down. But we have known for some time now that her days are limited. When the surgeon pulled out of the gall bladder surgery...

My dear wife Linda is a true Cajun cook. She was born in the heart of bayou country in the small town of Thibadaux, Louisiana, and learned her cooking from her mother who was born in Chac Bay, Louisiana. So she got her skills via a legitimate and authentic route. When she cooks up her...

For me it is the daily 3-mile walk that took a while to form the habit. When I come in after the walk, particularly on hot days, I am drenched with sweat at a level to include dried salt stains and I have the feeling of being physically drained. My next action is to sit down in my...

Bee, thanks for adding a Shakespeare quote. It reminded me of one of my favorites that I remember when I see bigotry. I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same...

Saw the movie Runaway Jury once. Some of the sites were familiar. Others were shot from angles that didn't mean anything to me because they showed interiors of places I hadn't visited. For all I know, some of those could have been Hollywood sets. For what it is worth, there is a TV series...

If it feels good, not too long. If it doesn't feel good, you have to overcome the cognitive dissonance associated with the thought, "Why was I doing this again?"

Well, this IS the Mind Tavern, and Jon says we can sometimes divert from the main thread, so pardon me while I digress.... Uncle, that effect of which you spoke is an effect of the reptilian portion of our brainstem, where it is MOVEMENT that attracts our attention. Many reptilian animals do...

Haven't seen Deadpool 2 yet. However, in movie tradition, sequels are very rarely as good as the first installment. On the other hand, if you like iconic images AND a change of genre, Aliens (2) was better than Alien by quite a bit. Including Sigourney Weaver's infamous "Get away from her...

A, the Weight Watchers program. May I offer a recommendation? If you can get them, some of the Healthy Choice brand meals are quite good and, if you read the label, they are lower in sodium than many of the low-calorie brands. If you are not that sensitive to salt, then maybe it doesn't...

Yep, they have to pay attention to paper trails. That's why when I was with the Navy, it was "nothing by phone call." We had to have either a digitally entered trouble ticket (with a number) or a digitally signed e-mail (which we could forward to the help desk to enter, schmooze with the...

Could be the calf muscle but could also be the Achilles tendon. The X-rays were good - nothing broken. Just a deltoid strain, and the orthopedist says that is was one of the bigger tendons so is harder to tear. Diagnosis - mild sprain, treatment is limited round of steriods.

Today (10/23/18) I had to visit my orthopedic guy. I've been hobbling around for a while after taking a bad step off a curb during one of my daily walks. The good news is that X-rays say nothing is broken. The bad news is that it hurt enough for me to go to the orthopedic specialist to GET...

Right now we have what we sometimes call "Chamber of Commerce" weather, the kind that causes tourists to walk around or find one of the innumerable festivals. A friend of mine once told me he had researched Louisiana's festivals. People throw these things obviously to make money but also to...