Can you really lose weight with all those dieting schemes out there? What is the safe way to diet? Which one if the best? How do you find out? Check out Weight Loss Diet Help first before you try another diet. Not only do they have a review of the more popular diet fads but they also have an article...

*Y'know, I don't normally post these RE/SEARCH emanations, but every once in a while somebody blunders onto this website through a Google search, and then they read one of these V. Vale things and their head explodes.  Makes it worth it right there. *I ran into Vale  a few months ago in Ba...

Commentary: There are important rewards other than money Oshkosh Northwestern, WIIt all starts in the home. John Tesh in his recent radio program said that instead of paying kids cash for an "A" on their report card, give them a special afternoon with Mom or Dad, teaching them the value of pers...

According to our handy site-metering utility, the top 10 most delicious items across the Serious Eats family of sites this week were ... 1. How to Make a Choco Taco Choco Tacos can be hard to track down. The preeminent dessert taco makes cameos at select ice cream trucks and gas stations, but other ...

sobefest.com/2009 The tents have been taken down, the chefs have all gone home, and South Floridians can now return to more pressing matters like spring training, but the memories of my first South Beach Wine and Food Festival linger for any number of reasons, even if I didn't see the pantsless Paul...

This month's Write-Away Contest guest judge was Jessica DeVoe Riley from All Rileyed Up who is so fun and personable it made me wish we could have sat down and talked face to face. I love the answers she gave to my questions, she obviously has talent as a writer and compassion as a mother. It also i...

Damn slime! Either this guy was shitfaced, or there’s more to this story than what the press is reporting. According to the Miami Herald: New York rapper N.O.R.E. was arrested on Miami Beach on Sunday afternoon after punching a man in the face and throwing a cup of yellow liquid on him, accord...

While Matthew Yglesias’ predictions regarding taxation discussed in the previous post are reasonable, he sure does not understand the life style of affluent liberals.  He reviewed a study from the Pew Research Center which looked at whether Americans “would rather live in a neighborhood...

Our email is still out, so many of our usual tipsters are unrepresented here tonight. Sorry, everybody! Dymphna did a lot of the work digging up these stories. Thanks to Holger Danske and Reinhard for sending theirs in via skype. Headlines and articles are below the fold. - - - - - - - - - Financial...

I've read, more than once, how bad and annoying it is when women talk around sweets about how they "can't be bad" and/or "can't eat that." And I hear what people are saying about that, and I agree that it's not a good thing. So now when I do it, there's a little voice in my head making me feel bad f...