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Holy Grail of Dieting?

by RyanW on 9/11/2007 2:04:03 PM

Obesity is the greatest pandemic facing America today, and people spend billions of dollars every year on fighting obesity and obesity related disease. There may soon be an alternative to all the dieting, exercising, and things people do to lose weight. Recently researchers at the University of Te... Continue »

Are viruses alive?

by MisterE on 6/12/2007 1:18:14 PM

Why do I think viruses are alive? I am not sure, maybe its because they tend to be evil little things, and personifying them helps understand them better. Maybe its because I know that this world belongs to bugs. If you were to suddenly lose all of your skin, bones, muscles, and organs, there would ... Continue »

Don't get mad at fat people because they are fat

by MisterE on 4/13/2007 2:23:58 PM

Smarter minds have known for a long time now that sometimes obesity isn't about sloth and gluttony. Sometimes it is about bad genes, and an unfortunate pre-disposition to becoming obese. I'm very lucky, I have a perfectly tuned athletic build that I would have to work hard to get rid of (I do exerc... Continue »

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Don't Throw Me In That Briar Patch!

by Steve Benen on 11/20/2008 2:04:36 AM

Don't Throw Me In That Briar Patch! Well, this is interesting: "The health insurance industry said Wednesday that it would support a health care overhaul requiring insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability. But in return, the... Continue »

Zawahiri: Obama is the anti-Malcolm X

by Juan Cole on 11/20/2008 12:09:00 AM

Ayman al-Zawahiri attacked Barack Obama in a video released on the internet on Tuesday. Fox News reprinted the whole transcript here. I'm a little bit confused by this step, since I thought the US networks had agreed under pressure from Bush only to carry excerpts from al-Qaeda, and the US elite ha... Continue »

Parliament Session on Security Agreement Interrupted by Altercation

by Juan Cole on 11/20/2008 12:08:00 AM

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that the Iraq parliament's Committee on Security and Defense voted in favor of the Iraqi-US security agreement. That committee is headed by Hadi al-Amiri, the leader of the Badr Organization (the paramilitary wing of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq). Badr's willingnes... Continue »

That 25 Minutes Of 'Star Trek XI' Footage

by Nikki Finke on 11/19/2008 10:28:35 PM

Faithful readers of DHD know I don't do geek. And this is not yet another site that reviews movies badly. Instead, we do the biz of the Biz here. So, with that in mind, I asked my geek expert Luke Y Thompson to attend today's unveiling by J.J. Abrams of 25 minutes of Star Trek XI footage for opinion... Continue »

RNC Chair Race: Don Wildmon Endorses Katon Dawson

by Marc Ambinder on 11/19/2008 10:21:40 PM

American Family Association founder Don E. Wildmon has endorsed South Carolina Republican Party head Katon Dawson's RNC chairman's bid.In an e-mail sent to supporters today, Wildmon writes that "if the Republican Party is to survive, it must get back to its roots. I believe that Katon Dawson...has t... Continue »