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I suspected from the episode where Rick encountered the men in the house, that those men are "The Hunters" from the comics. Spoilers, definitely for the comics and maybe for what's to come in the show, obviously: http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hunters ETA: I wonder if Lee Everrett, from the Telltale Walking Dead…

Anyone who is a vegan for ethical reasons is a hypocrite. Untold numbers of animals are killed in the farming process of their staple foods. They don't even use the dead animals that are killed. If vegans really cared, they would go out of their way to avoid such death, whether that means farming their own food from start…

SAD = Standard American Diet

I've posted this before but there is an excellent part of an article by Taubes: Full article: http://garytaubes.com/2010/12/inanity-of-overeating/

I see no reason to disbelieve what Carol said about where she came from. She said she drove to the prison and caught the tail-end of the attack. Why she decided to return is the question. But, of course, there are a thousand reasons she would want to.

So it's a bait and switch? You bring up examples of evil illegitimate monopolies created by government intervention in one post, then in this post, inform me that you are talking about something completely different? Further, you seem to infer that government either explicitly grants monopoly or it doesn't. This is not…

I'm only quoting these two sections because the root of everything that is incorrect about what you are saying is contained here. Never, in the history of the planet, has a monopoly rose from a free market. Never. You go on to cite current institutions that hold monopoly status to back your claim. This is so utterly…

That's kinda what I just addressed.

Big dairy didn't limit any choices. Government outlawed something that should never have been outlawed. Yeah, big corporations who use the club of government to get what they want, are scumbags. But they would never be able to do that if government didn't exist. Or, if governments at least weren't tacitly given permission,…

You misunderstand me. I think it's a damn shame that people don't pay attention. But they only don't pay attention because they assume that government is getting their back. Well, government does not, has not, and will not ever, get anyones back except their own (and their benefactors). In a free society, that is to say…

They didn't sell you a firearm, then. They sold you an exploding item that looked like a firearm. This is the same principle as the supplement/cyanide analogy. Perhaps they did it on accident, but that doesn't change the fact that they are responsible for damages. They are too compelled to hold to a higher standard. For…

I'm not sure what you're saying here, except that you're agreeing with me. Also, no, money did not exist for most of human history. Humans worked on barter until only several thousand years ago. Sure, probably isolated incidence of certain tribes and such had mediums of exchange but barter is how it was done until…

"Should be inherently safe"? Who are you to decide that for me? What if a food is insanely delicious, but also insanely bad for a persons health to eat? Maybe they value the flavor over their health. That is their business to decide. Further, what if I don't give a damn how thoroughly, or not, a food ingredient is tested?…

People die in car accidents everyday. People who eat unhealthily die from health related issues too. So, if we are to hold McDonald's or Monsanto responsible for the offering bad products, maybe Honda and Ford should be held accountable too, right? See? It's ridiculous to try and hold others responsible for other people…

People who simply make things, aren't hurting anybody. Therefore they are doing nothing wrong. They have the same obligation to not hurt others as anyone else does. But again, their mere manufacturing of something hasn't hurt anyone. If they came to your house and forced you to consume their unhealthy product, then that IS…

Money is not the root of all evil. People are the root of all evil. If money didn't exist, evil still would. We know this because money DIDN'T, in fact, exist for most of human history. Are we seriously supposed to believe that people didn't do evil things before money came around? Also, manufacturers of products (should,…

I've always been a two meal/day person, even pre-paleo. As it happens now, your ideal meal times that you posted (10am-ish and 5pm-ish), are when I eat now, during the week. It tends to work out close to this on most weekends, too.

I've never heard that you need carbs to build muscle. Protein, yes, but not carbs... I don't really do any real muscle building stuff though so I could be wrong. I am convinced that if you eat enough protein and fat, you have absolutely no requirement for dietary carbohydrates. I think it was Mark Sisson that wrote that…

I've posted an article by Taubes before. In it, there is a great analogy that helps the understanding of calories in-calories out:: "But now imagine that instead of talking about why we get fat, we’re talking about a different system entirely. This kind of gedanken (thought) experiment is always a good way to examine the…

I can't help you with the saving money thing since I'm a single guy with no kids. I spend a way larger percentage of my income on food than most. However, I have some experience with three Julian Bakery items. Almond Thins - Excellent cracker replacement. You wouldn't know they weren't a regular cracker if no one told you.…

Don't drop your calories! Especially with that much activity. I went on progressively tighter and tighter caloric restriction from June until October last year trying to drop weight for three Spartan races. I am pretty sure I have screwed myself up, metabolically. And despite having dropped exercise to laughable levels and…

Welcome. When I first set out on this diet, I lost weight effortlessly without a single calorie counted. Now that I'm with striking distance of my goal weight, and have been for the last year or so, things stopped moving altogether, even with strict calorie counting. I recently just said "screw it" and stopped logging my…

The comics-Governor committed WAY worse atrocities than the show-Governor, which is why I said what I did. Whether he's more complex or interesting, I can't say. I personally didn't care for either of them. The current comic-antagonist is probably the greatest villain I have ever seen, though. I can't wait for the show to…

They have shown flashbacks before. They showed Shane telling Lori about Rick, the day he was shot and the one where Lori and Shane witness the napalming of Atlanta, are the two I can remember off the top of my head. Having said that, I wonder about him being credited in three more episodes. That seems like a lot of…

****Talking a LITTLE about the comics below (no real spoilers, however)**** It would not surprise me if Judith was, in fact, dead. It also wouldn't surprise me if she wasn't. I read the comics but, fortunately, the show deviates in enough places that you can't be certain of such details being the same. Anyway, I thought it…

They don't die from the zombie "virus" when they get bit. They die from some other sort of sickness/infection from the bite. Then once they die from it, the zombie "virus" that they are carrying, reanimates the person sometime thereafter. Hershel's leg was cut off after it was established they are all infected. But Rick…

Yeah, that was kind of silly to me. As a rule, moisture is to be avoided with firearms. Gun oil doesn't exist to simply lubricate operation, it's to protect against corrosion, the same as you would for a carbon steel knife, for instance. The guns and ammunition just hanging out on that table, exposed to the elements, was a…

I don't think Hershel had any innocence to lose by killing walkers. He was gunning 'em down with his shotgun left and right on the farm, not to mention the living bandit(s) he had to shoot the day they first came in to contact with Randall. I think he broke down at the end of this episode because he's losing his faith. He…

Ha! I'm sure they partook of various substances. I have doubts that it was often enough that evolution factored it in to our physiology. As a matter of fact, I should think that if it did, those substances wouldn't really have much of the effects that people consume the drug for to begin with. Having said that, it's…