What is a Calorie?

"Calories are little creatures that hide in your closet and take in your clothes a little bit every night"

Northern Lights over Volcano in Iceland

Magma and northern lights captured in one shot just a few yards from an erupting volcano could be one of nature’s most spectacular sights - British photographer James Appleton

So, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

"America is Balkanizing, breaking down along the lines of religion, race, ethnicity, culture and ideology, and that Western peoples are facing demographic death by century's end". - Patrick Buchanan.

Identifying with people of have similar beliefs and values is a natural part of human nature. However, the ability to identify with our society as a whole is more important. Decisions on a national level should be made in the best interest of all citizens. Compromise is central to the process of advancing the society as a whole. Nobody can have it their way all of the time. Compromise is less likely if a loyalty is solely to other people with identical beliefs and backgrounds rather than to society as a whole.

This is what is happening in America now. Nobody is willing to compromise their views on how government should be conducted. This has resulted in the gridlock that is destroying our country.

Drugs and Power

Something To Think About

With the exception of the last 500 years, the economic and intellectual power of the world was focused in East Asia. About 500 years ago Western powers began growing opium in India and forcibly exporting it to East Asia, addicting 1 of 5 East Asians. At the same time economic and intellectual power began migrating westward where drug use was not a significant cultural factor.

Now, 500 years later, the same drug opium, processed as heroin, grown in same fields, along cocaine, a new contribution from the Americas, is widely consumed in Western Nations, only minimally consumed in East Asia.

Economic and intellectual power have, at the same time, begun to migrate back to East Asia. Coincidence?