Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
People who do not drink alcohol may finally have a reason to start — a study published on Friday shows non-drinkers who begin taking the occasional tipple live longer and are less likely to develop heart disease.
People who started drinking in middle age were 38 percent less likely to have a heart attack or other serious heart event than abstainers — even if they were overweight, had diabetes, high blood pressure or other heart risks, Dr. Dana King of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and colleagues found.
I started noticing this a few years ago. The oldest living guy, lady, person in the world at any given time — you know, it’s a depressing thought but they do have to replace that record every now and then — we started working our way through ’em like Reese’s Pieces a few years ago. I can’t remember the year and it was pre-innernets as we know the innernets today so there’s no links.
But I do remember what I noticed.
Every single patriarch/matriarch that popped up — without fail — said something about a daily ritual involving exactly one glass of red wine. And it made a deep impression on me that the news stories weren’t trying to play it up, they just saw it as a cute little tidbit of human interest to toss into the story. But for three or four of ’em in a row, the tidbit was always there. One glass. Red wine. Every day for eight decades or more.
And we’re talking…oh, nothing of Methuselah spans or anything. But well north of a hundred. One hundred teens…I think one woman was 121.
I have some Pinot Noir in the fridge. And some Cabernet. Not that I plan to be around in the 2070’s or anything, I see the odds as decidedly against it, but if you’re still here you might want to Google me and see if I’m still on this side of the dirt. Just on the off-chance.
Via FARK.
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Well…you’re gonna be around a lot longer than me, Morgan…assuming the actuarial tables are correct. I’m not so much into the red wine (but I DO have a bottle of Beaujolais lurking in the cupboard) as I am the single-malt and beer, but I’ve also read that which sort of alcohol one consumes isn’t as important as the consumption of alcohol, period. But there’s some controversy over that, at the very least.
Still and even…a day without alcohol…in moderation… ain’t worth living, in my book.
- Buck | 03/09/2008 @ 18:44It’s because any and all life-extending techniques are decidedly against nature, and our hippie brethren (who can’t wait for the day that they’ll decompose and become flowers, or trees or what the hell ever) see it as selfish that we’d cling to life, raging against the dying of the light.
Morgan, if you live to see the year 2050, there’s a very significant chance you may not face natural death as an inevitability. Medical technology being what it is, bolstered by almost every other science, and pursuing relentlessly cures for all forms of disease, will most likely find a way to completely reverse aging.
- dcshiderly | 03/09/2008 @ 19:20As a recovering addict, then I guess I’m screwed.
- chunt31854 | 03/10/2008 @ 13:36[…] did I say last weekend? I started noticing this a few years ago. The oldest living guy, lady, person in the world at any […]
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