New study finds calorie counts wildly off

Joe | January 31, 2010

I stopped believing long ago any claims made by the food industry fat cats…so I wasn’t surprised in the least by a new study that finds calorie information on menus and food labels to be flat-out false. In most cases, you’re eating more than you’ve been told, whether you’re dining out or heating up a [...]

The ugly truth behind ground beef

Joe | January 25, 2010

I hope you’re not having hamburger tonight…because this story might change your dinner plans. One of the key suppliers of hamburger “meat” is coming under fire…as tests show a disturbing number of E. coli and salmonella pathogens, according to a disturbing report in the New York Times. Want to know why I put “meat” in [...]

91 yr. old reads 25,000 books

Joe | January 23, 2010

A 91-year-old woman from Stranraer in south-west Scotland is believed to be Britain’s most prolific library book reader after staff at her local library realised she is on the brink of borrowing her 25,000th book. Louise Brown, who borrowed her first book from Castle Douglas library in 1946, now reads about 12 books every week [...]

Voodoo Dick

Joe | January 22, 2010

There was a businessman who was getting ready to go on a long business trip. He knew his wife was a flirtatious sort, so he thought he’d try to get her something to keep her occupied while he was gone, because he didn’t much like the idea of her screwing someone else. So he went [...]

Good news, cell phone may have positive health effect

Joe | January 21, 2010

I’ve been concerned about all the negative health effects implied with cell phone usage, such as cancer and brain impairment. But for the first time I see a positive health benefit from using one. I personally will be speaking on mine more often after reading this article. A study in mice suggests using cell phones [...]

The Book of Eli

Joe | January 20, 2010

Good fight scenes in this movie, a futuristic Bruce Lee with a sharp sword. I enjoyed the movie, but my pleasure was dampened because I thought the story line was taken from Cormac Mc Carthy’s “The Road” which is coming out as a movie this year also. Possibly the Eli story was written as an [...]

Why some boys have breasts

Joe | January 18, 2010

If Hillary Clinton were president, I’d say there was a conspiracy at hand — a conspiracy to change the few remaining men in this country into tree-hugging, rainbow-wearing fruitcakes. Conspiracy or no, there’s still an all-out assault on the male population. Men are exposed to estrogen at every turn, from birth to the grave — [...]

The Three Worst Chinese Tortures

Joe | January 15, 2010

Once upon a time a starving man named Harry Enis was walking in the middle of a Chinese forest when he stumbled upon a huge mansion. It was close to nightfall and he had no where to stay, no food, and nothing to make camp; so he walked up to the mansion and rang the [...]

Why are circumcised men less susceptible to HIV?

Joe | January 13, 2010

Apparently when the foreskin is removed, microbes that make the penis their home disappear, too. “The microbes change dramatically,” says Lance Price, a microbiologist at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Flagstaff, Arizona, whose team identified thousands of microbes on the penises of 12 HIV-negative men. All had participated in a clinical study in Uganda [...]

Painkillers for heartache?

Joe | January 11, 2010

There’s a pill for everything these days. Want to quit smoking? Take this pill. Having trouble shedding those extra pounds? Take that pill. Suffering from a broken heart? Well, as it turns out, there’s a pill for that, too. Two new studies found that acetaminophen–the main ingredient in Tylenol–could help decrease heartache, hurt feelings, rejection [...]