Armageddon ahead, please fasten your Bible Belt  
Whew, more busy-ness lately, from tending to employment (days stuck in the Bay Area, and no early retirement) to 'planting the Swedish forest' (transporting and building tons of IKEA bookcases). And more of the latter this week, and back to the former next week, after sojurns in Tahoe and Sacramento. Busy busy busy... Will I ever play guitar again?

Q: Why aren't there any Arabs on STAR TREK?
A: Becaused it takes place in the future...

Q: Why do you never see the headline PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY ??

Meanwhile: ECKANKAR, The Cosmic 'Duh' and Onward Christian bikinis and The Quack Files and Darwin vs. the paranormal and Clockwork is forever and Cthuugle is forever and Gay/Lesbian Science (via Cranks) and Argentine cattle mutilations and I'll have to cherrypick the Psychoceramics mailings soon.

  Yet More Paranormal News  
Out-of-body experience explained - out-of-mind, too
Crying Madonna investigations - "Tears are human"
Strange egg with religious wordings - God is clucking
'Virgin birth' of three sharks leaves experts puzzled
The clockwork computer - wind it up and it crashes!!
It's not easy being invisible - especially when sober
Bush reissues order keeping Area 51 site secret - oops
Neurologist Finds Way to Trigger Out-of-Body Experiences
Near-death vision may be brain misfiring - reload, fire!
Indian police crack down on fake holy men - real ones OK
Psychic Layla is hoping TV fame lies in her future - $$$
Saint's Dried Blood Liquefies in 'Miracle' - drools too
Experts dismiss town's sea monster claims - Nessie weeps
Magic Circle - soon to be a sexploitation series on Fox

  Trilobite Cookies  
* Nobody Does It Butter Than Our Ad Agencies Who Gleefully Spread Their Lies
* A Wing and a Prayer   You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans,
but at Wingnuts, you can eat more chicken wings than any man ever seen.
* Darwin's Dangerous Diet: How evolution makes you fat, fat, fat!
* Apples Are Bad For You. Chocolate is good for you. Unless it's GM, of course.
* Best Bacon Ever! Raise pigs fed with cannabis! Get high on the hog!

"Zee always went naked in the house, except for the brassière she wore when it was her turn to get dinner. Once, cooking French-fried potatoes in a kettle of boiling fat, she had come within an inch of crisping her most striking features." —G.S.Albee

DIGESTION:   Debate: GeneMod and How Long Will You Live? and The Fat Police and Unhealthy Organics? and Gourmet Fakes and Fake Meat and Organic Cannibals and A Late-Onset Cook

Meals make us human. Never mind obesity, it's the loneliness of the fast food eater that matters. A home smells of cooking. If we want respect and love, we must eat together. We can conquer obesity, too: stop grazing, stop gorging. [via A&L Daily]

  Sleep Aid: It's All in Your Head  
Music composed by running recorded brain waves through a computer program helps insomniacs doze off faster and get more restful sleep. But not all brain music sounds like a symphony.

PARANORMAL:
Murder by UFO! and Demonology, the Forbidden Subject and You, Cyborg and The Movie SIGNS in 4 Easy Steps and RoboDroids! and Finding Noah's Ark and Planet X and Project 666 (via Cranks) and Frog Guards Buddha's Footprint

INGESTION:
BK Lounge: Cooking With Alcohol and Erotic Cannibalism and The First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra and Bondage Gear for Vegans and FoodPorn (via MemePool) and Love Burger and Vegemite Dance and Veg*an Jokes

  What is Massurrealism?  
The Massurreality then, is an overarching surrogate humo-centric reality constructed by humanity which forms a part of and is intertwined within the Unified Field of Dogma. Or it could be a mass gathering of surrealists practicing exhibitionism of their innermost nonsequiteurs. Or it could be a product of faulty alien implants. Whatever.

  Ignore this item...  

  BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS  
* Pagan Prattle Online - Loony Fundie Nonsense for the Masses
* Thanx for the Cranx (encounters) and (for real) Dark Alliance

* What the Sputniks do and The Conspiracy is ... and Claude Sez
* King Arthur, America, and the Comet: a revised history, natch!
* Mind-Control Movies and Vaccinations Harm Psychic Abilities

* The 1968 Movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" May Have Been a Prediction about the Events of September 11, 2001, And It May Have Cost the Movie Director, Stanley Kubrick, His Life [via PaganPrattle and Google]

* FBI vs MAD and Jesus Had Short Hair and Planet X!
* Ceramic monster marks 50th anniversary of UFO sighting

* Did NASA Fake Data To Hide Mars Anomalies? Of COURSE they did!
* 911 in Alphabetics Bible Code and/or 9/11 was a Chinese plot!
* Cthuluism and the Cold War — untold story finally revealed

  What The American Taliban Say  

Death By Curry * Death By Wasabi * Death By Chili * Death By Caffeine * Death By Diet * Death By Chocolate * Death By Mountain Dew * Death by fat, death by rumor * Death By VegiForms * Death By Flatulence * Death By Kitchen Fire * Death By Vending Machine * Death By Unnatural Causes * Death By Maple Leaf * Death By Cell Phone * Death By Bricolage * Death By Dreams * Death By Orgasm * Death By Faith * Death By Legend * Death By Logic * Death By Science *

  Playing with my food, and other things...  
The folks at BloggerCode identify "the 'Sirs' and 'Dames' of the blogging world: bradlands.com, camworld.com, evhead.com, haughey.com, kottke.org, megnut.com, plasticbag.org, powazek.com, rebeccablood.net, saturn.org, scripting.com and zeldman.com" and asks, "How many of these sites do you link to?" Look at my SkeptiCon page and you'll see links just to Camworld and Kottke (from the above list). But everyone knows that the best blogs are collaborative efforts such as BoingBoing and MemePool and Sensible, eh?

UPDATE: Upon further reflection, I'm replacing Kottke with Rebecca at SkeptiCon. And I'm pondering whether to start a seperate blog just for food-issues links, or just keep inserting them in here along with the skeptical-issues links, my observations of interesting stuff, and my moanings about how much I hurt before-during-after the Big Move. Whatever. I'm still steeling myself up to starting a Harry Oliver / Desert Rat ScrapBooks collaborative blog, which I've delayed for well over a year. Someday, maybe...

UPDATED UPDATE: My bloggercode is: B9 d- t- k++ s- u- f i+ o x-- e++ l- c-

  Eat Your Broccoli  
I've just finished reading Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. I've heard various interviews with Schlosser lately. Scary and vivid stuff. McFood sickens and fattens and kills. McFoodBiz subverts democracy and promotes corruption. McFood workers are disposable proles. Et cetera.

I've avoided McFood for years, but now I'm ready to change my diet even more. Almost any foodservice meat can come from diseased animals and/or contain drugs; almost any ground meat can contain shit. Real shit, loaded with microbes. Ground foods may also be laden with insects, metal or glass fragments, various chemicals and debris. Have another Happy Meal, eh?

I don't think there's any moral basis for vegetarianism, but devouring meats and processed foods certainly isn't health-enhancing. The Japanese population is now going obese, an impossibility with their old diet of fish, vegetables, rice and soy products. Is it more moral to murder soybeans or mushrooms than to murder chickens or catfish or cattle? Why?

Of course, humans didn't evolve to eat any modern high-protein, high-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. When we weren't starving, we ate whatever animal flesh we could catch (vertebrate and invertebrate - yeh, bugs and grubs too!); and whatever roots and tubers and fruits and nuts we could gather. And sometimes we ate each other. I'm writing an essay on this, available soon.

You may know of my BLAME-THE-ALIENS thesis: Reptilioid / Republican ETs encourage industrialists to spew greenhouse gasses to modify Earth's climate to their liking; and they promote McFood to fatten-up humans as their food supply. So, are Global Warming and the Obesity Pandemic the result of alien intrigue, or just human greed and stupidity? YOU decide!

And see the prior entries, of course.