Feeding the Roman Army

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- From the archives: What people eat on a submarine.

- Peter Attia on using Atomic Habits to meet your health goals.

- Farnam Street: How not to be stupid. A truly good rule to live by.

- Jonathan Turley on should NPR rely on listeners instead of taxpayers. Yes - next question.

MAHA

 "I was completely misinformed about what MAGA is... The coming together of these two groups over the past weeks - has been really glorious. And they gave us the name MAHA, Make America Healthy Again. That was always the vision of this unity movement, this desire to heal the divide, even though these are just two pockets... they're two very powerful pockets, and to find common ground has been one of the most motivating, optimistic things I've seen in recent political time." - Nicole Shanahan

- Joe Rogan lays out the problem the US is facing.

- RFK Jr.'s philosophy on environmentalism.

- RFK Jr. on his uncle JFK's desire for Americans to be healthy

- How the media wants you to think.

- Just look at our food.

Make America Healthy Again!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- VDH on Our Biden Brezhnev, our Media Pravda, our USA Soviet Union.

- Paul Graham essay: The Right Kind of Stubborn.

- Billy Boyd and Dominic Monahan reunite with Ian McKellan in food travelogue episode.

- First hand report of the Trump assassination attempt.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Tucker Carlson Episode 96

- VDH on the epidemic of of violent, crybaby protestors. Agree 100%.

- Scientists are making food from thin air. Article is a few months old but new to me.

- Created an online petition to change NPR's new CEO Katherine Maher's first name to Karen. Please sign the petition. Thanks!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

-  I admit not sure if I ever heard of Francis Galton before.

- The amount of calories consumed on average has more than doubled over time. Obesity is a much bigger problem to modern society than famines.

- Sure this is merely a coincidence

- Niall Ferguson on the potential for another World War

Michael Pollan’s 7 Rules for Eating

Such great simple advice.

Can't argue with a single one of the rules. 

10 Companies Control Most of the Goods in a Grocery Store

And most of their food products aren't any good for you. (Via)

War and Food

Arabs fear for wheat supplies after Russia invades Ukraine. There will be bread riots in the Middle East and Africa. And don't forget China who has trouble feeding itself as well.

This is a chance for America to deploy some food diplomacy. We are the world's breadbasket. Just converting the corn used to make Ethanol back to food for human beings, starving human beings, could make a big difference. And we should make that pivot from biofuels back to food permanent. 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I like Peter Gammons suggestion regarding changing the MLB qualifying offer situation. No player could be offered a qualifying offer twice and a team in the bottom 40% of revenue wouldn't lose their draft allotment money... My guess is that Mitch McConnell hired an out of state ad firm. His fault for not catching the mistake when he approved it.... Scientists still don't understand how aspirin works... Heh heh - James Neal is a cheapshot artist... According to Darren Rovell - Ralph Wilson bought the Buffalo Bills in 1959 for $25,000 which would be about $200,000 today. Current value of the Bills is around $900 million... Make sure you check your Kindle account for possible credits from the Apple eBook settlement... Strange but true - Bronson Arroyo had the most impressive corn rows in Red Sox history... Cool - watch a hawk fly in slo-motion through various shaped small holes... I'm sure Adam Carolla will be happy to hear that Bill Belichick's proposal to extend uprights another 5 feet has passed and is one step closer to becoming an NFL reality... Making me hungry - the 21 best sandwich shops in America...