Category Archives: miscellaneous

Is your household ballot “one flesh”?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: October 29, 2008
Just a quick question for those who are married (or hope to be at some point)… how united are you and your spouse when it comes time to vote in a political election? Are you truly “one flesh” and vote together across the ballot, or do you retain an individual sense of preference, even if [...]
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Mystic pizza

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: September 13, 2008
One of the last memes that Peter Kirk passed along was “what type of pizza are you?” Now he’s back with another, this time a “Spiritual Types Test“. But while Peter scores as a Sage, I’ve come in as a Mystic: You are a Mystic, known for your imaginative, intuitive spirituality. You value peace, harmony, and [...]
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Drink coffee… live longer!

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 18, 2008
HT: Josephine Marcotty, StarTribune.com Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health studied the histories of 125,000 men and women who reported how much coffee they drank between 1980 and 2004. The more coffee they drank, the less likely they were to die from a heart attack or cardiovascular disease. That was especially true for women. Compared [...]
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I remember…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 28, 2008
HT: Iyov, for the link to this article. As tedious as footnotes can be to read, they can be even more so to produce. For high school students and undergraduates, footnotes seem less a test of research skills or academic honesty than a trial of one’s endurance and equanimity. In the heyday of the typewriter, footnotes [...]
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The Bible says what?!

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 3, 2008
Every once in a while you run across a verse or two that make you pause and scratch at your nose in bewilderment: Give strong drink to the hapless And wine to the embittered. Let them drink and forget their poverty, And put their troubles out of mind. Proverbs 31:6-7 (Tanakh Translation, JPS) These verses are bookended by the admonishments for [...]
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