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Pat(&C): Why would I judge you? I think Umberto Eco is totally awesome. Then again, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool geek. Still, though. Yay for Eco!

When I was in college, the campus vegetarian group had some very intense posters about how "Humans are the only animals who drink milk past infancy. GROW UP." But then a group of amused students in a group called PETA (people eating tasty animals) posted some signs that said: "Humans are the...

I don't know if this counts as a full-on cabbage recipe, but it's my favorite thing to do with cabbage: baked chicken and veggies 1 smallish chicken (maybe 3-4 pounds), whole 1 head cabbage, chopped into small-ish (maybe 1" square?) pieces a good-sized handful of potatoes at least 2 carrots...

Wow. I am mega-impressed with the good deeds y'all have listed off here. I've got nothing close to your charity, but I spent the day with my mother-in-law, who's visiting from out of town, and resisted many opportunities to mock her with my wife (sadly, her mom is extremely mock-able, and many...

As always, I can't possibly pick favorites among my books, but here's an attempt, which a quick change of mind could undo at any moment. FICTION: "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami NONFICTION: I love nonfiction, so I'm giving myself a few: "The Culture of Fear" by Barry Glassner...

Have you tried a "neti pot" for your sinuses? It's a little teapot-looking device that you fill with warm, slightly salty water and pour through one nostril... and it comes out the other one with your sinus congestion. Then you switch sides. It doesn't always work for me, but most of the time...

This is such a problem here in small-town Michigan. This town used to have a lot of factories, but all but one closed down in the 80s. And then the hospital was the largest employer in town, but the hospital closed about 5 years ago. You know things are bad when the hospital shuts down. Ugh...

Also, in addition to drinking lots of water to flush out toxins, if I'm feeling really awful, I step it up to a Vitamin C flush. Cheap as dirt, and effective. Just take 2 vitamin C pills every hour until, well, your system flushes itself. Er... you know what I mean... *blush* It really...

Yay! Fun topic. I have found great success (and there's some research to back them up) with a few herbal / homeopathic remedies. I take "Cold FX," which is a very concentrated extract of 3 different ginsengs to ward off a cold if people around me have one. I was skeptical to begin, but it...

The livers are totally good fried up and put on a salad though. Mmmm. Toxins be damned! All things in moderation, I say. :)

I make a lot of stews that are almost all veggies and a little meat. The meat flavor usually is enough, and my wife's not all that big a meat eater anyway... so we do a lot of "1/2 pound of chicken, head of cabbage, winter squash, and 4 potatoes" type of stews. Manages to let you eat a fair...

Niiiiiice. I wish I had 10 free broilers. That's fantastic! I love a good long-cooked chicken stew, and that always seems to take care of tougher meat. Mmmm. I've been buying chickens from a local farmer here, but she doesn't always have them at the market, so I have to cross my fingers and...

Okay, so it's all right then to refer to ME as someone who willfully hurts my children with neurotoxins? So your comment, you say, was not directed at anyone but me. Well, great. I'm glad you've decided I'm willfully poisoning my child. That's very welcoming of you. Sorry for my bitterness...

Also, here's an excellent article by a doctor who works in an Amish community, and vaccinates Amish people all the time, and also personally knows autistic Amish people. http://combatingautismfromwithin.blogspot.com/2008/01/guess-what-amish-vaccinate.html

The reason I keep coming back to the mercury is because all of the convincing research on the dangers of vaccines is about the mercury. Your chart about the parallels between mercury poisoning and autism? Mercury. I did read the Simpsonwood Minutes, and found it fascinating, chilling reading...

Thanks for that link. Seems like a very interesting panel, and I'd love to read more about it. I'm not entirely a medical partisan, and I certainly do think we're often being sold things by medical companies through the doctors. But still, I'm going to go ahead and balk when people tell me...