August 2011
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Is Watching TV Killing You?
Smoking one cigarette cuts 11 minutes off your lifespan – equivalent to half-an-hour of watching TV! Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, they concluded: ‘TV viewing time may be associated with a loss of life that is comparable to other major chronic disease risk factors such as physical inactivity and obesity.’
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Vatican Pressures Theology Journal to Weed out Dissenting Voices
Dissident Fr. Charles Curran, professor of theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said the Vatican action “is the most serious attack possible on U.S. Catholic theology because Theological Studies is our most prestigious scholarly journal.” Curran, whom the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared in 1986 was not suitable to be a Catholic theologian because of his dissent from hierarchical moral teaching, noted that “once again” it is moral theology and sexual ethics that has become the Vatican’s litmus of orthodoxy.
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Dog Keeps Watch Over Fallen SEAL’s Casket During Funeral
Petty Officer Jon T. Tumilson was laid to rest Friday in Rockford, Iowa, where an estimated 1,500 mourners came to pay respects for the fallen Navy SEAL, including his dog Hawkeye. In fact, Hakeye’s loyalty to his owner at the funeral was visible, creating a heart-wrenching image as he laid down by the casket of his owner during the entire service.
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My Dad: Small Cell Lung Cancer (Small Cell Carcinoma)
Of your charity, please pray for my dad (Ron) and my family. Dad was diagnosed with a small cell carcinoma: a highly malignant, aggressive, fast growing form of cancer that can metastasize rapidly.
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How to Give a Manly Handshake
But I have a question for everyone…how do you greet a woman?
Artwork courtesy Art of Manliness and Ted Slampyak
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Colleen Hammond : There's no way we'd watch it.
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