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Did you know that when you drink water, you are not really being vegetarian? I didn't either. It turns out that when you drink water, it could have microbes and other small stuff - well, I knew that part. What I did not know is that viruses and bacteria and such were considered animals to vegetarians. So even if you purify water by boiling it and killing the germs, you are still drinking dead animals. What to do for truly ethical water drinkers? Now you have the solution, the Prestige Lifestraw. I guess this is real - it's hard to...

There was a "gay" bookstore called Lobo's in Austin, Texas, when I was living there as a grad student. The layout was interesting. Looking inside from the street all you saw were books. It looked like any other bookstore. There was a section devoted to classic "gay" fiction by writers such as Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden. There were biographies of prominent "gay" icons, some of whom, like Walt Whitman, would probably have accepted the homosexual label, but many of whom, like Whitman's idol, President Lincoln, had been commandeered for the cause on the basis of evidence no...

THE CHURCH OF THE INBRED JEDS by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher February 3, 2006 WARNING: Contains subject matter that may disturb some readers. Proceed with caution before reading if you are easily offended . The First Amendment is a wonderful thing that all too often gets twisted, tortured and otherwise misused by extremists on both ends of the political spectrum.Nobody embodies First Amendment abuse more than 'Reverend' Fred Phelps (right) of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). Long ago distanced from Southern Baptists because of Phelps' tunnel vision and flagrant obsession with homosexuality to the exclusion of all other biblical...

OCD Epidemic Among the Home-Schooled Journal of Educational Pseudo-Psychological Studies Rachel Knee- Rabinovitch, Ph.D. A recent study of home-schooled children indicate a mini-epidemic of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder among those home schooled more than six years. Rachel Knee-Rabinovitch a psychologist and educator in Marin County, California notes that home schooled children are 12 times more likely to engage in activities and hobbies requiring either extensive memorization or obsessional finality, such as collecting or earning Eagle Scout status. "These home-schooled children are driven. Rather than participate in normal activities like soccer, gymnastics, or playing video games, we are beginning to find children...