ASK THE DOC: This week’s question focuses on the age old remedy of chicken soup for a cold and why it actually might work!

There’s a telling scene at the beginning of The Da Vinci Code (released last week on DVD). Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon is telling a crowded lecture hall to look beyond common symbols for a deeper truth. He then goes on to show a white hood and ask the crowd what that symbolizes. Of course, […]

Okay, the thing will only work in sunny climates and then only for tooling around the golf course, or getting from the hotel to the other side of the resort-island.  But it is a significant first step.  Never needs any external fuel or energy source of any kind, other than the sun.  Looks like humanity […]

“FOOD THAT RAWKS”: Surviving the Holidays edition. Veggie Loaf with Pomagranet-Apple Relish.
Now I promised my mother I wouldn’t give her or another human being a hard time for consuming an animal this year in celebrating Thanks Giving. Before I chose to eat a Raw-Vegan diet, I avoided eating Turkey dinner because it was cooked and […]

The Sun and Jupiter move out of Scorpio and into Sagittarius. Uranus goes direct and the New Moon is upon us. Find out what this means for you in the weekly Forecast for the Nov. 20, 2006

I thought the perfect way to start off this Monday - especially for those of you stuck in a cubicle - would be to bring you on a shamanic visual journey, courtesy of one of my favorite books, Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman by Luis Eduardo Luna and Pablo Amaringo. […]

There’s some sort of spiritual release that happens during the crossing of that fine line between pleasure and pain. Something leaves you (perhaps it’s all ego) and something else is brought back to your awareness (perhaps it’s feeling, emotion) when you experience any form of BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism) […]

Here’s my picks for this week’s dish.

Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy
Read carefully.
Uncle Sam Keep out
What Democrats can learn from the failure of the gay marriage ban in Arizona.
LUST LIFE: Curse of the Bad Kisser
Time for a refresher course.
The Death of the Disc
Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray are dead on arrival.
Kevin Mitnick’s Security Advice
Listen to […]

TV sucks.  I know.  But I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for Aaron Sorkin shows, because the guy is just so freakin’ smart.  On the surface, his latest effort, “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” is a fast-paced workplace drama occurring behind the scenes of a live TV show (not unlike his first […]

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