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Within the next few days, the email address "mahdi7 at comcast dot net" will no longer be working, as I'm canceling the service.

Until further notice, you can reach me via the much-hated backup address, "atreidesmr at yahoo dot com" if you need to email something to me.

Interesting article

This is an interesting article on the effects of the ubiquitous food additive "High Fructose Corn Syrup" on your body's natural processes.

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If there's anything more unnecessary and downright weird than The Naked News, I don't know what it is.

Except maybe http://www.freakyhamstersex.com, which I'm not even going to check on the existence of.

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In a comment to someone else about television, munoz wrote this little paragraph, which my future-English-teacher/wannabe writer ass thinks is absolute Truth:

And this goes back to something that other people have mentioned: books! Oh, yes, books. Paragons of culture. Refuge of the intellectual. But that's crap. The printed word as a medium is not intrinsically more stimulating than television. People claim that TV is passive and reading is somehow active, but let me tell you, if you've ever tried reading a John Grisham novel you'll see just how mind-numbingly passive you can be while reading. And Grisham isn't even all that bad. There are more bad novels written and published each year than there are new shows in any five seasons of television combined. The difference is that print has been around for hundreds of years and has become acceptable, elite. The fact that in order to enjoy it a person has to learn to read makes it seem more legitimate, but it's not. It's just more inaccessible.

Go see an un-expurgated, non-high school production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Pay close attention to the titillating low-brow humor, the flashy and overt puerile sexuality. The Bard could write Hamlet, yes. But he could also be a producer on The Bachelor if he wanted.