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The dark side of the Super Bowl

Tomorrow hundreds of thousands of people will be tuning in to Super Bowl XLVIII. Some will be cooking and eating most of the day, while others are either visiting with friends and family or seriously involved in the game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. Although I have some issues with the aggressive nature of lots of sports, it’s really not football itself that I have an issue with tomorrow. It’s with the tens of thousands of sexual slaves who will be trafficked into Denver to meet the “needs” of people attending the Super Bowl.

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Making bean soup for New Year's Day

For many people, it wouldn't be New Year's without making a big pot of bean or split pea soup. This tradition comes from an old superstition that eating beans on New Year's will bring you good luck. In the southern United States it's specifically black-eyed peas that bring good luck, but elsewhere people tend to cook whichever bean or split pea is their favorite.

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The most common GMO foods, and how they're modified

There is a big push in the United States to start labeling products that contain GMO foods. This labeling is already common in the rest of the world, but the US is lagging in this respect.

The problem with GMO foods is that some of them are modified "good" (to be healthier for the consumer, or to produce more food per acre) and some of them are modified "bad" (to be resistant to Roundup or contain other harmful chemicals). And there is no way to sort out the good GMOs from the bad ones.

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Medals of Honor, in Baseball and in Life

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Ask an member of the general public, what comes to your mind when you think of Veteran’s Day?, and you’ll hear a lot of different things:

“Mattress and sofa blowout day?”

“That’s when you stop wearing summer colors, right.”

“If you know somebody in uniform, you thank her for her service.”

“A day off, and big sales at the mall.”  (These are actual responses we googled up.)

“That’s when you visit the graves of veterans who died for their country.”  (Actually, that one is Memorial Day.)

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Veteran's Day was originally called Armistice Day.  It was the end of World War One, specifically, that inspired Veteran's Day.  From 5,000 BC to 1914 AD, there had always been a war going on someplace.  But now, there was a war going on everyplace.  
 

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