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1. Picked up Practical Paleo at Whole Foods. Has to be the most useful cookbook, nutritional guide that I've seen.

Having read and reviewed various nutritional guides and sites - the one constant is:
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2. Dallas Buyers Club was a better movie than expected. ( Read more... )

3. This is just ...words fail me:

Student Requests For Trigger Warnings For Literary Works

Should students about to read “The Great Gatsby” be forewarned about “a variety of scenes that reference gory, abusive and misogynistic violence,” as one Rutgers student proposed? Would any book that addresses racism — like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” or “Things Fall Apart” — have to be preceded by a note of caution? Do sexual images from Greek mythology need to come with a viewer-beware label?

Colleges across the country this spring have been wrestling with student requests for what are known as “trigger warnings,” explicit alerts that the material they are about to read or see in a classroom might upset them or, as some students assert, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of rape or in war veterans.

Suddenly, I'm highly relieved that I did not pursue a career in academia or as an English Lit Prof.