Red Meat Reduction

It's not as if I eat red meat on a regular basis, but I probably eat a lot more than I should so this is my next food to cut from my meal rotation.

The other two foods I've cut back on have seen mixed results so far. I still haven't had even a sniff of bacon since I stopped eating it more than two weeks ago, but I did break down this week and had some chocolate chip cookies. It's been a lot harder avoiding chocolate than I really expected, with Haloween less than a week ago and my birthday being today, but after today I should be able to keep away from chocolate for the rest of the year. Although, I still reserve the right while in DC to suspend the chocolate ban if need be.

It would be irresponsible of me not to say something about the election yesterday. I am happy to see that Obama did in fact win, as I was worried that our voters would somehow botch this election too. What I am happiest to see is that Prop 2 in Michigan (expanding stem cell research) looks to have passed. I was worried the terribly misleading ads being run by the religious right leading up to election day would dissuade many voters.

There are a ton of moral issues on state ballots across the country this year that I am interested in, and will be checking throughout the day to see which ones passed and which ones failed. It's amazing how cut and dry many of these things seem to me, yet how unlikely they are to be resolved in the way I think is right. Sometimes I feel as if our country is slipping back into the dark ages, hopefully some of these states can prove that false as I read the results today.