So much easier said than done.  I’m sure it’ll be better once I’m into a routine.  As horrible and exhausted and miserable as I feel now, I have the belief that once I’m getting up, leaving the house, doing something, and bringing home a paycheck – plus meeting more people and finding more things to do for fun – I’ll find it easier to ignore the irritants, sleep when I need to, and deal better with my exhaustion and current physical woes. 

There’s a guy on the ADD forums I’ve been visiting who’s all pumped about a carb-free diet that he’s on, which is patently unhealthy.  Seeing as how the people reading these forums are in many cases desperate for something that’ll help them, they’re as likely to take bad advice as good, so I posted about the dangers of ketosis, which sets in when the body does not get enough carbs to survive. He starts telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about, ketosis is good as long as you “get used to it”, and I’m thinking, how do you get used to gout, kidney failure, liver damage, bone density loss, and heart failure?  So I post a few reputable links to medical papers and articles by clinical nutritionists and doctors, and he posts that these people are stoooopid, too, and he doesn’t need to read these links to know they’re quacks.  Then goes on about the wonders of ketosis.  Posts some links.  Well, I go to those links.  Not one of them is from a reputable source, only one mentions ketosis (and it tells of the dangers of ketosis, so clearly he didn’t read even his >own< links before posting) and all but one (which is the blog of a woman on Atkins) is selling supplements and books for carb-free diets.  Hmmmm.  Quite objective.  I’m getting a tad bit ticked here, because he’s going on and on about how wonderful it is to live on meat and fat alone, and everyone should try it, and what do these stupid medical doctors know anyway.  So, since he won’t view my links, I put up a post with statements from Northwestern University School of Medicine, The National Health Ministry of the UK, and the American Heart Association.  His response?  “Where did you get this nonsense?  This is all propaganda!”

I’m nuts by now.  Trying to be calm, but this is crazy.  Finally, I say to him that he can go and do whatever he wants, since he’s bound and determined to ignore the facts and put his health in serious danger.  As a parting shot, I ponder why mister “all carbs are bad carbs” is using a Bacardi Limon label as his avatar.  Yeah, that’s when the moderators came in and said I was picking on him with that ad hominem attack.  I suppose you could call it ad hominem, what I was trying to express, though, was “consider the source.”

But now, there have been a couple of other comments supporting me (“I know a guy whose breath smells so awful nobody wants to be in the same room with him – it’s his ketosis” “I know someone who went into kidney failure because of ketosis”, etc.) so I’ve decided to just do brief facts.  He posts about how healthy the Inuit are with their all raw all meat diet.  I go to Canadian Census information and cite their statistics, average lifespan 17 years shorter than other canadians, 70% higher incidence of Leukemia, and 66% higher suicide rates.  Plus the fact that they have to hunt for their own food, build their own shelters, and make their own clothes.  Just left it at that.  So I’ve gotten over the initial rage, and I’ll be a nice lady, I’ll just get it out of my system with bullet points here and there.  And if I really explode, I’ll just do it here.  Heh.

This is an apalling pseudo-Christian subgroup that I became aware of through links on Respectful Insolence.  Today, Orac linked to a couple of diatribes on Little Geneva.  I’m not going to give them the teeniest bit of bandwidth by linking.  They believe that whites should breed only with whites, and only with whites chosen by their daddies, and that anyone who doesn’t believe in their narrow-minded, hateful, exclusionary form of Christianity isn’t a Christian.  They believe Mel Gibson is a wuss for apologizing for his antisemitic and sexist remarks, and he should stick with his utterly justified point of view.  In fact, not only are they Holocaust Revisionists (oh, wait – they prefer “Holocaust Factualists”) but they feel we should be celebrating the many occasions where huge numbers of Jewish people were killed or evicted as holidays, no matter where in the world they occurred.  They have noticed that Latinas are having children without benefit of marriage at a higher rate than black girls, conclude that it’s because they’re not having as many abortions – and propose that that’s a situation that must be remedied to bring the population down. 

Well, needless to say, after reading this, I was deprived of that much-desired nap I wrote about earlier this morning.  I wondered for a bit whether it bothered the blog author that the underwear that touches his lily-white genitalia was milled, woven, cut, sewn, folded, and put into a package by so many nonwhite hands?  Does he have any fears that it might somehow damage his genetically superior sperm?  I’m thinking, actually, that these people (for lack of a better word) are pretty selective in their segregationism.  If they were really serious, they’d start their own little colony – or, perhaps “reservation”.  I’d be behind it 100% with a few provisions.  For example, they’d have to go all or nothing.  The aforementioned underwear would have to be made from scratch – from cotton they grew, milled, wove, cut, and sewed themselves.  By the same token, I think it would be fine if they had guns, but only if they adhered to the same production standards as the underwear.  Dig up the iron, smelt it, refine it, engineer the weapon, make the gunpowder, etc.  That’ll at least keep them busy, because they’ll have a lot of time on their hands when they have to make their own computers and internet and can’t blog in the meantime.  Plus, they could help us all out by not allowing their own people to interbreed.  We certainly won’t benefit from mixing them up with the general gene pool, so it all works out great for everyone.

I don’t think, though, that they see the irony in being a segregationist group that recruits.  Of course, they also don’t see the irony in saying the Bible is infallible in one sentence, then using one Bible verse to disprove another in the next.  Or the irony of telling one another “that’s very thought-provoking” in response to a comment that essentially says exactly the same thing that the blog author just did.  “I think fathers should pick their daughters’ husbands!”  “Yes, in fact, I think that daughters should marry the men their fathers pick”  “Wow, Bob, that’s a very thought-provoking comment!”  Yes, it makes them think of the exact thing they were thinking of before.  And they’re homeschooling their kids.