Homeland on Showtime

There are some shows that should only be one season.  Heroes and Prison Break would have made pretty good one season shows, as they quickly lost their way after the first season.  Damian Lewis had his own short lives series, Life, which should have been left off at one season. The first season of Homeland had a lot of promise.  A forgotten POW is found in a locked room after being held hostage for eight years, but is he a hero or a villain?  That’s the big question our hero, an ambitious CIA agent, has to answer. We are shown…

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Trading Almonds for Fritos

Not long ago I read Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted.  This is a peppy little book with an agenda, to get the reader-in this case me-to stop poisoning himself and start eating foods that will heal what ails him.  At one point he mentions how hard this process was hard for him, because everywhere he went, he found that people wanted to kill him. Ok, maybe kill him is a little bit of an overstatement.  He found that everywhere he went, people wanted to feed him,…

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