Q. What do cancer, brain health and testosterone have in common? A. The government has been promoting LIES about how marijuana impacts them all, for generations. They told us "pot causes cancer! at least as bad as cigarettes, probably more because there are more chemicals in the pots!" But as it turns out, people who smoke marijuana are less likely to get cancer than tobacco smokers, and smokers who smoke BOTH are less likely to get cancer than their tobacco-only counterparts. Current research ... (...more)

Coffee, vitamins, uncharacteristically cold for SoFla but I've seen worse, changed up my usual morning by swinging the dumbbells around a little.

Noon Eucharist and LBOM board meeting #2.

$4 2x cheesy double burgers / Checkers for lunch because I was famished.

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Whether or not you believe "the law" in general was put to death at the cross, Matthew 19:16-19 tells that Jesus plainly affirmed at least some of the mitzvot: 1. You shall not murder, 2. You shall not commit adultery, 3. You shall not steal, 4. You shall not bear false witness, 5. Honor your father and mother, and, 6. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. In reading the story where the Pharisees criticized Jesus and the disciples for eating with unwashed hands, I always thought this was a p... (...more)

Rainy Saturday. A new year is an attractive time to try out new organizational tools, so I tried to get into Lifehacker's article about using Github lists ("gists") as to-do lists, but the price of Github privacy ($7/mo), and the git learning curve, were turn-offs. But then, just to try it, I made a test-list "secret" and it didn't demand a payment method, so maybe I'm onto something here. From LH's "Top 10 apps and services that are more than meets the eye" article, I did glean a useful thing - bein... (...more)

The ancient Jews practically invented the concept of "a wall around the law", from whence the mitzvot "thou shalt not cook lamb in it's mother's milk" became the elaborate kosher kitchen, with separate serving sets for meat and dairy. They also had an enormous superstition against dishonoring their name for God, to the extent of even mincing it in writing lest the writing be destroyed or defaced - hence our modern rendering of YHWH, sans vowels, because there remains no reliable documentary evidence ... (...more)