I continue to be flabbergasted by Americans and their desire for a perpetual dose of fluff. Here a fluff, there a fluff, everywhere a fluff fluff …… Nikoley points this out, which gave me a chuckle. Sylvia Anderson writes for Insiders Health, which is termed an “alternative health journal.” It’s actually a web magazine full [...]

“High fructose corn syrup provides many consumer benefits and often plays a key role in the integrity of food and beverage products that has little to do with sweetening.” Some of my readers keen on food and nutrition might like this laughable propaganda site for high fructose corn syrup: SweetSurprise.com. Watch the idiotic videos on [...]

Anti-abortionists, “survivalists,” Christian identity types, and other assorted “dangerous types” who are anti-government. Lemme see, survivalists – meaning people who are self-sustaining, resourceful as hell, live off their own land, don’t bother anyone, and take care of themselves as well as people in their community. They’re among the type of people that “the government needs [...]

My blog was just named one of the most “10 Notable Blogs” by a guy who is both libertarian and a practicing paleo-primal food buff. Nutrition and Physical Regeneration is one of the good paleo food blogs, and one great article that came from it was this piece: What to Eat in a Crisis. He [...]

My latest article on LewRockwell.com – It May Be Financially Irresponsible to Pay Your Mortgage – has brought forth more vicious, insane, and hyper-emotional email than I have had in years. People missed major points in my article (such as about mortgage promissory notes), took the piece personally, showed me their level of total financial [...]

Via the Living Primal blog, I came across this Taco Bell ad for the “Drive-Thru Diet.” The Drive-Thru Diet, of course, places its emphasis on avoiding “fat.” Taco Bell gives you “7 incredible options” that contain less than 9 grams of fat. Yet here’s the nutritional information: Chicken, Southwest Chicken Breast Meat With Rib Meat, [...]

This will appear as a published article on LewRockwell.com tomorrow. Roger Lowenstein has written one of the best articles I have read on the topic: walking away from your house. The prominent author and journalist published a January 7, 2010 article in the New York Times with the headline, “Walk Away From Your Mortgage!” Lowenstein [...]

You must read the story of Ken Ilgunas: “How do I afford grad school without going into debt? A ’94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience.” Ken writes about his life living in a van to avoid the debt of Duke grad school, and that’s after he paid off his undergrad debt. Some of [...]

Hiring part-time “clipboard-toting workers going door-to-door to verify the government population” – in other words, the 2010 census. From Bloomberg: The 2010 census couldn’t have come at a better time for the U.S. economy. The government will hire about 1.2 million temporary workers in the first half of the year to administer the decennial population [...]

The politics of envy are in full bloom in Switzerland.