Comments on: Was Vergil Wrong?

by: Environmental finance solutions

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:46:25 +0000

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by: Ken Dryden

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:47:20 +0000

This is a great article. I am new to your blog and i like what I see. I look forward to your future work.

by: Bob Rae

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:30:50 +0000

Very entertaining issue. I haven't heard of this one. It will be necessary to visit you on a thicket!

by: John Anderson

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:57:11 +0100

Limiting oneself to “junk food” is harmful, I have no problem with that. But to never indulge, or worse to insist that noone indulge, is at best fatuous and at worst leads to the extremes of a Pol Pot. As with many things (especially, albeit not only), keying on MODERATION is more beneficial. A glass of wine or beer with a meal, or even a shot of 151 rum, is MODERATE and can be beneficial, downing a bottle of tequila is actually poisonous and far from beneficial.

Or, “The dose makes the poison.” Hey, aspirin can kill!

As to `Following a diet consisting mainly of fruits, vegetables, olive oil, fish, beans, nuts, pasta and breads…` note the word “MAINLY“ in there.

Admittedly, I have a special axe to grind. People who do not know me have a tendency at meals to criticise my avoidance of vegetables: folks, you may not have heard of such a thing, but I am allergic to green stuff. Yes, I can ingest a stalk of celery if I want, but a single pea in a bowl of beef stew causes projectile vomiting and other nasty things.

by: violetta

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:38:54 +0100

Here, here.

by: The Cheerful Oncologist

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:41:10 +0100

Stanley Bing (a.k.a. Gil Schwartz) is one of my modern literary heroes. Read “The Big Bing” for a sampling of his keen wit and masterful turn of the phrase, not to mention his skewering of the follies of the business world.

by: John J. Coupal

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:25:38 +0100

To paraphrase Stanley Bing…
“Does drinking Diet Coke make you obese?
Have you ever seen a skinny person drinking it? ‘

by: Emmy

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:02:30 +0100

Thanks for telling me this 2 years after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The truth of the matter is my sisters think it’s ok to smoke because no one in our family has ever had lung cancer. I saw my dermatologist yearly because my mother died of melanoma, but I only had mammograms done every 2 years because nobody in our family ever had breast cancer…I was diagnosed in stage 3 after having a clean mammogram six months prior to the diagnosis. I guess I’m getting as fatalistic as a Hindi about this, but I figure I’m not cut out for longevity anyway. “Eat, drink for tomorrow we die!”

by: Ali

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:28:49 +0100

“STOP EATING JUNK FOOD, YOU FATTIES!”

You should put that up on billboards at exits to freeway strip malls. Maybe with an asterisk that says “try the mediterranean diet,” which itself would have an asterisk that says “that doesn’t mean the never-ending pasta deal at olive garden.”