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[Surgery-graphics.med.umich.edu] Quirk Blog: July 2003 Archives: Someone needs an official looking diploma or a certificate of appreciation done in twenty minutes, so you open up Illustrator, find a nice gaudy font, slap on the whatever official seal the marketing department says you need, and print it up. Then, next year, when they need half a dozen more, you just go to the archives and rewrite the text on the old version. Suddenly the rush job has become the official version.

[Mcgees.org] mcgees.org veganism blog: It's similar to the reason I don't get hot and bothered about secondary animal ingredients in car tires, asphalt, and film, the miniscule amounts of animal by-products used in fining some beer and wine, and even beeswax.  The reason animal by-products are used in these cases is that they are cheap.  If primary animal products such as meat, eggs, and milk were to disappear from the market, the producers would be prompted to find another source.  It's just the glut of these products that makes their use economical.  Yes, some of my veganism is largely symbolic: whey is a by-product of the cheese industry and gelatin is a by-product of the slaughterhouse industry, so there is, strictly speaking, no reason why I should avoid these secondary products.  But I don't see a symbolic need for me to stop taking pictures (or going to movies!), or stop buying tires for my bicycle, or stop eating white sugar.  There are plenty of good reasons for not eating white sugar: sugar consists of empty calories with a high glycemic index, for starters, and sugar plantation workers are frequently exploited.  But veganism is not one of the good reasons to avoid white sugar.

[Positiveliberty.com] Positive Liberty: To sum up, legitimacy is never full or complete, and the concept itself may be misapplied; it seems to depend entirely on our conception of rights, which obviously varies from person to person. Procedural guarantees are useful for protecting various conceptions rights, but I am unconvinced that the benefit these guarantees offer should be called "legitimacy." They seem instead designed to contain a certain part of society--its impulse toward force--that will always have something bad or at least dangerous about it. It strikes me as strange to say that the prison guards (our constitutional guarantees) confer legitimacy on the prisoners (our government officials).

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[Ghchealth.com] Global Healing Center: Although many experts believe there is some health benefit to drinking alcohol in moderation, I remain unconvinced, especially after reviewing this report. Folks, the alcohol in wine and other spirits serves as a neurotoxin which means it can poison your brain. Additionally, it has the strong potential to seriously disrupt your delicate hormone balance.

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