October 2009
58 posts
#566; Supernatural Collective Nouns. →
Oct 30th
South Park “Whale Whores”: Captain Paul Watson... →
Shared by Renee MBM <3 Wednesday night’s airing of the latest South Park episode Whale Whores created quite the conversation in our early morning recap. While some praised the…
Oct 30th
The Beginner’s Guide To Minimalist Travel →
Shared by Renee MBM Good stuff. But I keep thinking “washing? Do it yourself? What? It costs, like, $1 to get it ironed & everything!!” haha, oops. I <3 SE Asia. Editor’s note: This is a guest…
Oct 30th
The Guardian Go To Hell →
Overprotective crazed parenting = generation of go-nowhere boring adults! boo! free-range kids ftw!
Oct 30th
Katy Perry Throws Best. Birthday Party. Ever. →
must do a similar yet awesomer crazyvegan version of this for Alice, yed
Oct 30th
Party Foodz Roundup 10/29 →
iheartmuseums: Whether you are throwing your first vegan potluck like Melissa or you’re a seasoned pro at hosting shindigs, this time of year seems to bring the party out of people.  With Halloween around the…
Oct 30th
A Softer World: 494 →
Shared by Renee MBM <3  :(  back buy this print digg facebook reddit stumbleupon next
Oct 29th
Listography: A Life in Lists →
I am an inherently lazy writer. Given the choice between curling up with a good book or sitting down at my computer, I will almost always choose the former over the latter.  I’m also not very good…
Oct 29th
Arnold Schwarzenegger Gives California The Middle... →
Shared by Renee MBM Ahaha nice one, Governator! Wow. That’s all I have to say. Wow! Arnold Schwarzenegger recently vetoed a California legislative finance bill and informed the…
Oct 28th
The Minimalist Gmail Firefox Extension →
Shared by Renee MBM Nifty Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. Great news for you Firefox minimalists: have you always wanted Minimalist Gmail in one click? There’s an…
Oct 28th
Climbing →
Oct 28th
Iceland ditches McDonald's →
Shared by Renee MBM Iceland sounds like a nice place! Filed under: Food and Drink, Europe, Iceland It’s been a tough year for Iceland. Thanks to foreign money, crazy lending and…
Oct 27th
“He is able who thinks he is able”
– Buddha
Oct 26th
Ninja vs. Zombie vs. Pirate: Anything’s Possible... →
Shared by Renee MBM Looks cute! LEGO Universe Are you a fan of the LEGO video games? Have you enjoyed playing a minifig version of Luke or Batman or Indiana Jones and solving puzzles…
Oct 26th
Top 10 Tips For Hassle Free Serenity →
Post written by Sherri Kruger. Follow me on Twitter. Ask anyone if they are busy, stressed or overworked and the answer will likely be an emphatic YES! If you feel you are sinking, finding…
Oct 26th
“There are some people who eat an orange but don’t really eat it. They eat their...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Oct 26th
2009-10-25: Sinfest →
Sinfest Tatsuya Ishida
Oct 25th
How to Give Yourself to Whatever the Moment... →
Shared by Renee MBM A whole lotta easier-said-than-done! But yes. Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. The prevailing way of living in our Western societies is to plan out our…
Oct 24th
President Obama declares national emergency over... →
Shared by Renee MBM Nucking futs. (NaturalNews) According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October,…
Oct 24th
Nine Ways to Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer →
(NaturalNews) October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but the media focus of this month tends to be about curing breast cancer, with little said about how to prevent breast cancer. The bad news is…
Oct 23rd
A vaccine for anxiety? The real reason why drug... →
Shared by Renee MBM WTF. Srsly. How about a vaccine against independent thought? It’s got electrolytes. (NaturalNews) There’s a new vaccine for nicotine addiction, and another one for drug…
Oct 23rd
"You've had 2 C-sections? You can't... →
Shared by Renee MBM Psycho. Yep. Glad I don’t live in the “land of the free.” Peggy Robertson is in a serious bind. Because her husband is self-employed, they had to apply for their own health…
Oct 23rd
Woody Harrelson To Receive Honorary Doctorate For... →
Shared by Renee MBM Hahaha, well, he probably smoked enough dope to qualify, so. Whee! :) This Saturday, Woody Harrelson will become Dr. Harrelson as York University in Toronto bestows an…
Oct 21st
The "Easternization" of the West →
Andrew Lam writes that “if Americanization is a large part of globalization, the Easternization of the West, too, is the other side of the phenomenon.” I take it as some cosmic law of exchange…
Oct 20th
Zombie-themed wedding →
Shared by Renee MBM Awesome. A Seattle couple celebrated their wedding recently with this stylish Zombie Wedding cake, complete with a chainsaw-toting bride and bloody guests modeled after…
Oct 19th
Bag Check →
Shared by Renee MBM Fuckers!
Oct 19th
Some Thoughts on the Meaning of “Vegan” →
There is a great deal of discussion about what “vegan” means. “Veganism” means at the very least not eating any flesh, dairy, or other animal products. In this sense, “vegan” means “vegan diet.”…
Oct 18th
On (Not) Debating the Existence of God →
A couple of weeks back, I received an unexpected request. Would I be willing, the email asked, to participate in a University debate about the existence of God? Now, I should say that the existence…
Oct 18th
Bioavailable B12 in mushrooms confirmed →
Good news, everyone! In early 2009, researchers at the University of Western Sydney confirmed that bio-available B12 exists in the skin & flesh of button mushrooms, 5% RDI (per 100g). Link: …
Oct 16th
Ten questions about flu vaccines that doctors and... →
Shared by Renee MBM Amusingness. Interesting points, some not so interesting. But amusing, also. Quack quack voodoo quack! <3 (NaturalNews) Vaccine mythology remains rampant in both western…
Oct 16th
Is Western Buddhism Shallow? →
I have to admit this is funny, if painful. Christian Lander writes about Stuff White People Like, and in his new book he writes that among the things White People like are religions their parents…
Oct 15th
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he...”
– Epicurus
Oct 14th
Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery... →
Shared by Renee MBM Quack! (NaturalNews) Prepare to have your world rocked. What you’re about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You’re about to be…
Oct 13th
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Japan Tough on Divorced Fathers →
Shared by Renee MBM Wow. Crazy stuff. Filed under: Divorce & Custody, In The News, Weird But True, Single parenting Japanese kids whose parents divorce end up with Mom 90…
Oct 12th
Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu... →
Shared by Renee MBM O noes, pro-choicers! <3 (NaturalNews) Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution…
Oct 11th
Vegan Sources of Calcium →
(via iheartmuseums)
Oct 11th
2009-10-11: Sinfest →
Shared by Renee MBM Hey hey, it’s another whitebread failday! But this one’s cute ^_^ Sinfest Tatsuya Ishida
Oct 11th
Faith in Buddhism. →
Shared by Renee MBM Faith without blindness. Doubt without shame. <3 Perhaps because of our Judeo-Christian background, we have a tendency to regard doubt as something shameful, almost as…
Oct 10th
South by Southeast: New directions in Southeast... →
Shared by Renee MBM It didn’t feel exotic to me. It felt like home… I wanna go home. Sigh. Filed under: Asia, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
Oct 9th
Less Toys, Please →
Shared by Renee MBM Hells yes. Alice likes paper and Dad’s wallet and crunchyfly and caterpillar wrestling and chewing the pleather couch and koala puppet and flailing at Fuji cat. The rest is…
Oct 9th
See New York through the Gossip Girl lens →
Shared by Renee MBM flail Filed under: Arts and Culture, North America, United States [YouTube Video] Soak in the sights, sounds and smells of the good life on the latest…
Oct 9th
5 Tantrum Stoppers That Work →
Shared by Renee MBM “My kid won’t eat vegetables”? Hahahaha oh my. & Alice already loves toothbrushes. But already gets shirty about the car seat occasionally. Oh well! 1 ain’t bad. Easy…
Oct 9th
Big Freakin' Surprise: Parents Lie →
Shared by Renee MBM Stuff like this shits me. Grr. No lies here, bitches. Researchers from the University of Toronto have some earth-shattering news, folks: parents lie to their kids. “Our…
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
Autism: Real Epidemic or Trendy Diagnosis →
Filed under: Medical Conditions, Development, In The News The number of children diagnosed with autism may change education. Credit: eyewire More than one in every 100…
Oct 7th
Vegan Marathoner Proves The Power Of Plant-Based... →
Training for a marathon is hard work and takes a lot of careful attention to health and nutritional needs. Surely a marathon runner can’t be vegan! Tell that to my friend Jenn who just…
Oct 7th
It's Been So Long →
Oct 7th
I’m MoFo inspired! →
An actual blog update, oh no! I’ve borrowed this survey from my friend Nicole, who is the wondrous wonderful beacon of inspiring wonderment glowing in the vegan firmament who originally…
Oct 6th
Questions we cannot go through →
I remember a friend once saying to me that he thought there were, roughly speaking, two kinds of philosophers in the world. The first kind, when presented with a problem, is the type of person who…
Oct 6th
2009-10-06: Sinfest →
Sinfest Tatsuya Ishida
Oct 6th