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Not PC | "˜Dem bones, "˜dem bones 2010-02-09
More good health news for you: in addition to making you more intelligent, more charming, a better singer and a way better humorist, beer is also good for your boner.* Ahem, for your bones. True story: "A regular pint, it turns out, helps strengthen the bones and prevent fractures in old age. . . The best beers for silicon are the pale malted ales and lagers." Dr Shaun Holt has more. * I be
Heaven and Earth | The Independent Council on Drug Harms 2010-02-08
You may remember the government advisor Prof. Nutt who got sacked for reporting relative harms of various drugs and promoting evidence based drug reform. Nutt has gone on to found the The Independent Council on Drug Harms with 20 other specialists, some of whom were on the British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) before they quit in retaliation to Prof. Nutt’s removal from the advisory council.
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No Minister | Muddle Headed 2010-02-07
The latest version of 'blame somebody else preferably big companies' raises it's head in this morning's Sunday Star Times. Still, what else would you expect from such a rag? Apparently the P problem has little to do with the pricks who manufacture and peddle the stuff. It's all the company's fault. It said the money ($70,000) would be used to pay Tauranga-based heroin addict Pat Buckley to speak to around 50 seco
David Farrar | A decade on the sickness benefit 2010-02-06
The Herald reports:
A sickness beneficiary with a taxpayer-subsidised state house was instead living in an upmarket Auckland suburb and driving luxury cars worth $250,000.
So was he renting out his state house?
Paul Yu Szeto, also known as Yu Hong Ho, is facing money laundering and methamphetamine charges and is due to appear in the High Court at Auckland this month. "¦
However, the police have also seized three valu
Liberty Scott | The bureaucrats for whom freedom is unknown 2010-02-05
I have said before that I despise smoking, I don't like the smell and I hate walking behind smokers and don't like walking through them outside buildings. So you might think I'd welcome what the Auckland Regional Public Health Service is calling for as reported in the NZ Herald.ARPHS (why not say ARS) calls for what is effectively a ban on smoking anywhere but in one's own home, which looks to me quite simply as th
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