“Scott”:http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/001942.html#001942 points me to Food Network chef Alton Brown’s take on Mad Cow disease. (It’s the entry of “December 26th”:http://www.altonbrown.com/pages/rants.html. Just as I have not discovered the joy of steamed mussels, Mr. Brown has not discovered the effective content management system. So no permalink for you.)
Alton says:
bq. That’s right, Mad Cow disease isn’t the beef [...]

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Marjorie Williams has an interesting piece in the conservative _Washington Post_ explaining what it is about Howard Dean that makes her uncomfortable: “he’s a doctor and he acts like one”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43185-2003Dec30.html.
bq. Where else but in medicine do you find men and women who never admit a mistake? Who talk more than they listen, and feel entitled [...]

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It’s good to know that the capture of Saddam Hussein has made America more safe. Otherwise, we might have to watch for “people reading Sports Illustrated as well”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/29/national1426EST0580.DTL.
Thanks, “Scott”:http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/001933.html#001933.

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Today is the Winter Solstice, known by many neopagans as “Yule.” As I’ve grown older and grown away from my Christian background, Yule has gradually come to mean more and more to me than Christmas. Interestingly enough, however, I think as I’ve come to understand the importance of Yule I’ve come to understand that “true [...]

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There’s a comment on “Yippie Skippy Liberals”:http://www.thudfactor.com/archives/003477.php#003477 I thought I’d respond to here. Scott (not the Scott of the Gamer’s Nook, who usually haunts this blog) poses a few questions, so I thought I’d give some answers.
Let’s take Tom’s response point-by-point:
bq. Notice lately that Libya is giving up the goods on its nuke program? So [...]

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