A Catholic Marriage and a Badly Needed Viagra

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Last year, I had used a sexual reference for the relationship between Brussels and Ankara in a post, titled "Enlarge Your EU."

European Stability Initiative, a Berlin-based think tank, has recently published a study with a similar punchline.

Their report, which can be read here, suggests that the only possible special relationship between Turkey and the EU is the current open-ended negotiation process; hence, talking about concepts like privileged partnership is waste of breath. While Turkey and the EU have already tied knots with a Catholic marriage, the real question is whether the couple can be a happy one. The think tank also suggests that visa liberalization is the badly-needed Viagra for the accession process.

I agree, but I have a question:

Does viagra work even the guy is comatose, if not dead?

My Men's Health Magazine Top Picks

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Men's Health Magazine recently released their top picks in must have gadgets n gizmos for 2007. Here are a few of my favourites:


1)Belkini N1 Wireless Router
This is great for a new office upgrade! These routers can reach speeds of 150 Mbps

2) Samsung YP-K5
It's a 4GB portable mp3 player, 1.7 inch colour display screen, touch screen, Fm tuner with 30 hours of battrey life and 6 if the speakers are being used

3)Microsoft Zune MP3 player

A 30GB music and video player, it offers the advantage of being able to wirelessly fire tunes, videos and photos to similar devices. Legitimately downloaded music will disappear once you've played it 3 times, but you can purchase from Microsoft's online music store.The Zune has a smoochy 3-inch screen, is so easy to use (for everyone familiar with Windows) that it's almost psychic.

4) Nokia N95
The Nokia N95 is a 3G smartphone which comes is a clever two way slider opening mechanism. The user can use their Nokia N95 in landscape mode which is when the screen is moved to the down position which is ideal for all multimedia purposes & accessing the Internet. The screen is 2.6 Inches in size and provides a 240x320 pixel screen resolution on a 16 million colour TFT display. The phone comes with 160 megabytes of internal memory and the user can expand the phones memory capabilities by adding a MicroSD memory card up to 2 Gbytes. The phone comes with an integrated GPS navigation feature which supports maps for more than one hundred countries. The user can enjoy their phone world wide as the N95 works over a quad band network which includes GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900 and the Nokia N95 supports HSDPA which provides high speed data. Photos and video clips can be viewed on a compatible television thanks to the Nokia N95’s TV out feature and support for Universal Plug ‘n’ Play (UPnP) networks. The Nokia N95 comes with music features which include a stereo FM radio, visual radio and a music player which supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA music formats.

Fuzzy-Brain Medicine

Beliefnet.net conglomerates a series of public blogs that anyone can post to, on a variety of subjects. "Fresh Living is a natural health and holistic blog for people like you, who care about what you eat, how you feel, and how to be more alive, connected, and in-the-moment. We wade through the latest in mind-body-spirit wellness and plumb ancient wisdom to bring you tools, tips, ideas, and inspiration. Plus, you get to hang out with us as we journey on our paths, one breath at a time."

I care about how we eat and how we feel. As a historian I find it increasingly more urgent for us to know something about the context of our existence than on being "in-the-moment," but we can let that pass.

I put my foot down when it comes to placing history, purchase cialis, dairy, and holistic sludge into a blunder and sipping from the result.

As Holly Leibowitz Rossi does in her post, Fuzzy Brain--Is Dairy at Fault?

I'm wondering if this complete brain-fuzz attack (there have been others so far today, but none as visible as the first) has something to do with dairy. Yes, dairy. Yesterday my acupuncturist told me to stay away from the milky stuff for awhile--and I ignored her because my id wanted a chocolate ice cream sandwich last night. Bad id!

The result was a weird night's sleep, not to mention the complete fuzzy brain situation. Chinese cheap cialis practitioners would wag their needles at me because dairy in TCM is believed to cause "damp heat," which at this hot, humid time of year is bad news for chi flow, smooth thinking, and a well-behaved body.

I honestly don't know if TCM - Traditional Chinese Medicine - considers dairy to cause "damp heat." I do know, being a historian and having studied the subject, that the Chinese mix of cultures (except for the Mongolian) did not traditionally include dairy. This, as anthropologist Marvin Harris has shown, is largely due to the traditional farm unit in China not being friendly to large milkable domesticatable animals. Foods that are outside the norm in a culture are disposed to being cast either as exotic and luxurious, as dairy was for the privileged classes, or vile and injurious, as dairy became.

Who doesn't believe in dairy causing "damp heat," being bad for chi flow, and needing to be avoided? The Chinese, for a starter. They are adding huge quantities of milk to their diets, now that dairying herds have become common. Although most ethnic Chinese are genetically lactose intolerant, many can have small amounts of lactose without symptoms, as is true for most of the LI people in the world.

I'm sure some traditionalist Chinese still adhere to TCM beliefs about dairy. For a modern American to throw over all modern understanding of history, culture, medicine, and plain common sense to do so sends my senses to reeling. I now have a bad case of fuzzy brain as a result. But I won't be talking to acupuncturist to find out what to do about it.