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D'Souza uses the Virginia Tech tragedy to blame secularists, will burn in imaginary hell after he dies for being a total fuckhole good and evil are irrelevant, or at least subjective. it could be said that the goodness of something is evaluated in terms of first self, then family, then nation, and so on. in this context, morality is simply a social road-map to navigating ones personal desires framed against operating successfully in a larger context of civilized society. therefore, while genocide may seem like a good short-term solution to a specific, localized problem ("if only we could get rid of zee jews.."), it is frowned on in the larger context of the survival of the species because our greedy genes want to preserve a larger gene pool and mass killing your members of your own species doesn't help that end. dinesh may think atheism has nothing to say with regard to bereavement, and he may be partly right. grievers will contemplate the posthumous fate of their lov...

Scientists link Hot Dogs and Bacon to Lung Disease I just started reading "SALT: A World History", so its somewhat of a coincidence that I came across the article above linking nitrate ingestion (specifically sodium nitrate used to cure bacon, hams and sausages) to COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Ironically, bacon, ham and other similar products not treated with nitrates (sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate, specifically) are deemed by the USDA as "uncured" and can be labeled and sold as such; and in fact the sole difference between a cured and uncured bacon is this minor, technical distinction. Some of the curing methods the USDA recognizes are listed here: Ham and Food Safety Curiously, while some nitrates occur in impure sea salts (mineral nitrates) and from vegetable sources, USDA curing almost certainly requires the addition of synthetic nitrates that implies an industrial food scale. To wit, artisinal "cured" products may be labeled as un...