Octopodial ChromeBob Uhl's thoughts on life.Eat Food- June 30, 2008 <p> Michæl Pollan has some <a href="http:www.nytimes.com20070128magazine28nutritionism.t.html">nontraditional advice on how to be healthy<a>: eat food; not too much; mostly plants.<p> <p>The full article is actually a wonderful examination of how nutritionism has damaged the American diet. Instead of eating healthy food, we flock to unhealthy food with a few extra nutrients added. Believe it or not, removing fat or adding oat bran or...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/food/pollan-unhappy-meals.html A Victory for Reason- June 26, 2008 <p> Today is a great day, a red-letter day, a triumph for sanity and a victory for reason. Today a majority the Supreme Court of the United States decided to actually read their copies of the Constitution (something the justices too-rarely do). Today the Court affirmed that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.<p> <p>As the decision noted, the public-safety impact—whether positive or negative—is none of the...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/philosophy/law/heller-decision.html The Murder of US Manufacturing- June 24, 2008 <p> Sorry for the paucity of blog updates the past few months. I’ve been working an exceedingly time-consuming project at work and have had very little personal time.<p> <p>Here’s a good read about <a href="http:www.prudentbear.comindex.phparchive_menuart_id=5088">the decline of American manufacturing<a>. It argues–convincingly IMHO—that the business philosophies of the 1970s destroyed our economic...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/philosophy/economics/us-manufacturing-murder.htm... My Uncle Makes the News- June 6, 2008 <p> Most of my friends know that I’ve an uncle who is a Catholic priest. Father Uncle Joseph (as I am amused to call him) has spent the last nine years at St. Ann’s in Kaufman, Tx., where he has done a lot of good for his church and his community. His recent transfer has actually <a href="http:www.kaufmanherald.comarticles20080605newsdoc4847e46757f1c908216522.txt">made the local paper<a>, no small feat in a Protestant town (some years ago he...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/current-events/uncle-joseph-paper.html |