Summertime Reading

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Summertime Reading
by Ralph Nader

Ah, summertime reading. Set aside the e-mails, close down the computer and pick up some good books. Here are some worthy suggestions ala non-fiction:
1. Harper's editor, Lewis H. Lapham, has written Gag Rule - On the Supppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy. What a sharp, concise pen, he has. "Dissent is Democracy. Democracy is in Trouble."

2. God's Politics, the bestseller by theologian Jim Wallis, believes in applying the prophetic religious traditions to social justice. He asks: "since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich and pro-Republican?" Bono, Bill Moyers and Archbishop Tutu praise the book on the back cover.

3. Steve Brouwer, grandfather, has written this super-readable, soft cover titled, Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gagna and the Mugging of America. Its large print layout, factual content and comparisons between haves and have-nots, punctuated by Matt Wuerker's searing cartoons, make this a tract that motivated from pure outrage.

4. National Security Advisor to four Senators, Winslow T. Wheeler turns on the Congress with his book The Wastrels of Defense. It is about the military budget and pork - pushed by the munitions industry marinating willing members of Congress with campaign money and wasteful projects that cost tens of billions out of your pockets.

5. My boyhood sports hero, Lou Gehrig, is the subject of Luckiest Man - a fine biography of the Iron Man for the New York Yankees. Lou Gehrig's disease, still without a cure, receives its best biographical treatment in this volume.

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1. Lou Gehrig's disease, still without a cure

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Updated: 5/24/2004

Introduction
Causes
Differential Diagnosis
Assessment
Treatment
Medications
Drug Research
Diet
Nutritional Supplements
Protect and Regenerate Neurons

Protection Against Glutamate Toxicity
Methylcobalamin and SAMe
Antioxidants
Glutathione
Superoxide Dismutase
Zinc and Copper
N-acetyl-cysteine
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Alpha-Lipoic Acid
Most of the research on nutritional supplements for ALS focuses on several areas:

Protection against glutamate toxicity with vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin) and S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe)
Antioxidants including N-acetyl-cysteine, vitamin C, vitamin E, tocotrienol (palm-oil derived), and alpha-lipoic acid
Protection and regeneration of neurons with methylcobalamin, the proper balance of omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids, acetyl-L-carnitine, pregnenolone, and DHEA
Improving mitochondrial function with coenzyme Q10 and creatine
Growth stimulation with human growth hormone and testosterone
Mineral deficiencies of magnesium, calcium, and vitamin D
Miscellaneous supplements including ginseng, branched-chain amino acids, Hydergine, vinpocetine, and trimethylglycine(TMG)

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3. "Lou Gehrig: A Quite Hero" (1969) is a great teen book about his life.

The book described the road trips by railroad. It told about how the Yankees were so good they actually talked about breaking up the team. The team faltered after their manager Joe McCarthy died.

If baseball had to choose one person to represent them on a list of great Americans, it would have to be Lou.

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2. My Summer Reading List (so far)

Tower of Babel, a book-length argument against "the new creationism" by a philosopher named Pennock. Recommended if you're interested in the subject.

The Ancestor's Tale, by Richard Dawkins. Extremely highly recommended (though very difficult in parts for nonscientists) journey back in time from homo sapiens sapiens to the earliest organism. A review of what we know about evolution in the early 21st century.

Victorian Sensation, about the effect a notorious book called Vetsiges of the Natural History of Creation by an anonymous author, published in 1844, had on the Victorian reading public. It was an early argument for evolution (though it didn't name it as such, and it made no statement about the mechanism driving evolution. This book is a fascinating case study of an early best seller, covering it in all aspects, from the paper used for the first edition, to the number of free copies handed out to reviewers, to various readers' reactions. I'm still reading this one, and if it doesn't sound interesting to you, I'm just not doing justice to it.

On deck: Philip Roth's most recent novel, The Plot Against America; and a book about censorship--self- and otherwise--in the US news media.

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4. Here is my summertime reading list

1. Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor
Funny book and a very easy read that reminded me of the good things about this country and how the Democratic Party truly are the ones that stand for those things.

2. The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
Interesting book about Peak Oil. The only fault would be that it is overly simplistic at times concering geopolitics and the history of oil throughout the world. Give a good introduction to effects Peak Oil will have on our society.

3. Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy Jr
This book made me very angry about the destruction of our environment by Corporate America and how Bu$h lets it slide and makes it EASIER for them to do it. Easy read and very informative. RFK Jr. needs to be the next head of the EPA.

4. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
I probably won't read the entire book cause it is pretty long, but it provides a very interesting take on history by looking at it through the eyes of the victims. It truly tells you the history that you never learned in school. I will never look at Columbus day the same again.