Hah, after years of hearing how eating dead cow meat is bad for you, bad for the environment, and having the glories of soy-based products extolled everywhere from Oprah to the wanna-be hippie commune at College, the seedy underside of Big Tofu is exposed:
Tofu linked to poorer memoryÂ
That’s right folks, consumption of tofu has been linked to the mental decline of elderly Indonesians. It’s the news the global Soy cartel doesn’t want you to hear!
Interesting article in the Dead-Tree-based Medium of Record:
Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: July 6, 2008
The writing on an ancient stone may contribute to a re-evaluation of popular and scholarly views of Jesus.
Traditional Christology has emphasized the novelty of Jesus as a suffering messiah - in contrast to the dominant Jewish view of the Messiah as a triumphant King of the line of David. Back in 2000, Israel Knohl, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem argued that the motif of the “suffering messiah” - the idea that the Messiah would die and be resurrected as a necessary step towards the national salvation of Israel - existed within Judaism prior to Jesus. Such a view would seat place Jesus - and the Christian beliefs about his death and ressurection, firmly within at least one stream of Jewish Eschatology. The main problem, however, was that he didn’t have any actual textual sources referencing a suffering messiah prior to the emergence of early Christian documents.
Until now.
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From Boing Boing:
On this day in 1867, Amos Canada drove the spike that completed the Canadian National Railway, thus paving the way for the welding of Lefter Canada and Righter Canada into the new nation of Belgium.
Of course, Canada didn’t formally gain independence from British Rail until Thatcher privatized the state monopolies in the early 1980s and the Liberal party bought a controlling interest in the company. Canada was subsequently acquired by the Toronto Maple Leafs, and are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Hockey League.
Celebrate by asking a Canadian how their hockey team is doing this season!