Well, I guess I’m saying that the price of a particular good is generally priced lower in places with lower costs of living. If they sell that same product in NYC, they’ll hike the price accordingly. Of course, places like Amazon.com tend to make that strategy more complicated.

The cost of living in places like Louisiana is much lower than in Ontario, that’s for sure, so that would explain why they can sell it for cheaper.

Having lived on both sides of the border now, I find the issue to be a bit more complicated. I would agree that the U.S. is definitely and by far the worst of the two, thanks to the very powerful lobbying groups there. I’d also say that Canadians have mainstreamed junk food in a similar way to Americans, though.…

Highly-processed foods, by any name, are probably bad for you, even if they have a “diet” label attached to it. It’s just not sexy to market a “lean meat and vegetables” diet, not to mention it’s not exactly something corporations can commercialize and make obscene amounts of money with. Thus, they always create diet…

Isn’t this just calorie restriction by another name, though? Packaged foods are dense with nutrient-poor calories, whereas vegetables are nutrient-rich with far fewer calories. In fact, this is generally the appeal of eating healthy—it’s very hard to consume too many calories on a diet of lean meats and vegetables.

Oh, they’re quite aware of the global nature of the Internet, but you have to remember that they exist primarily to make money.

NBC (and every other U.S. network) makes more money licensing out content internationally than it would making it available to you directly, so NBC put in the block to satisfy the foreign networks that pay for the exclusive rights to its content.

The new demo definitely looks a bit rough around the edges. Oddly enough, the previous “Episode Duscae” demo looks a lot more polished, by comparison, and even that is supposed to be polished up further.

(I don’t really have any friends)

I was introduced to this article recently:

He’s been getting all that adulation, because of those stories about him helping, for lack of a better term, “the little guy.” Looking at his behavior in total, though, I think the best way to describe him would be as an “altruistic narcissist”—that is, any action he’d do was entirely in service of raising his profile…

The CBC already made a statement that they stand by their decision to fire him.

FYI, there was no jury in this trial.

I’ve read the U.S. Weekly article here, and it’s a diet that I’d probably jump on if I had the time/means. Gisele and Tom are rich, so they can afford a personal chef to make everything for them—obviously a luxury that only the very few can do.

Honestly? It’s quite possible to have an enjoyable diet with their kind of dietary restrictions. Although I don’t avoid it zealously, I’m at a point where I hate white flour—it’s basically non-nutritive filler—but between whole-wheat flour and other kinds of flours (spelt flour, buckwheat flour, etc.), I’m more than…

Joe Manganiello. You may know him from photos like these.

If you’re looking for bromance, you won’t be disappointed. ;)

We do a poor job of teaching people both “abnormal psychology” (to recognize disordered personality traits in ourselves and others) and proper interpersonal relationship boundaries. You’re right, she’s not being a good friend, and you would be right to distance yourself from someone who does not respect your…

As a city dwelling, manual transmission millennial car owner, I concur!

As someone once put it to me, unlike a lot of other countries, the U.S. likes to push policy initiatives through its tax code, so while we have these nominally high rates, we also have enough loopholes to ensure that few actually pay these rates. And there are enough very rich corporations that pay no taxes at all. To…