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I remember hearing about kids getting beaten up for their Pokemon cards back during the craze.

This puts Pokemon to shame.

You’ve probably heard the term "rabid fan" used to describe girls disturbingly obsessed with whatever hottie caught their fancy.  Twilight fangirls, however, take the cake.  Some unfortunate individuals who stated that they didn’t like the Twilight series, sometimes in a very calm and reasonable manner, have found themselves physically assaulted.

Quotes from TwilightSucks.com, emphasis mine.

At this point Kylie peered away from her book, and says "Do you like the Twilight series?" My high school friend/girl/person(Gail) looked away and answered "Oh it’s okay"

And just like every other story, Kylie freaked, at her ‘okay’ remark. Started making a scene at the back of the bus, saying "Twilight is awesome, how could you hate it… and so on…" At this point I was just watching, I wasn’t in the mood for a rant off. Then, Kylie closed her book and hit Gail across the head. Everyone in the back of the bus was in shock, honestly I was speechless.

Another student was burned with a cigarette for making her opinion known:

Today in english class I was bored so I wrote "Twilight Sucks" on my arm (yeah, mature I know.)

I’m walking to the cafeteria at lunch and I stop in the bathroom to fix my hair and there’s a girl smoking in there. She sees my arm, grabs it, and jabs her lit cigarette into my arm. It hurt like shit (and it still does). And yes, I did report her.

Fans broke this student’s arm:

The books were fucking stupid.

I told this to my friend, who agreed with me. But there was this girl in our class named Louisa who is a total twitard that overheard us talking. She argued with me and when she couldn’t force me to love the book, she stormed off.

When I was walking home from school, Louisa and her friends jumped me. Three of them held me down, while Louisa (whose heavy-set) jammed her knee into my arm and pulled on it until it snapped. They ran off when a woman came out of house yelling at them that she had called the cops.

They shattered my arm in two places. The doctor said it could take over a year before I get back full usage of my left arm.

Are you floored yet?  I was.  The full versions of these horror stories (and more) can be found here.

Fans, I hope you realize that isn’t right.  This madness has got to stop.  If things keep going this way, it’s only a matter of time before someone ends up dead for exercising their constitional right of free speech.

Today I was reading Treehugger when I found an article on incorporating more vegetables into one’s diet.  It looked interesting – and it was.  What I found blew me away… in a good way!  Here’s a summary of some of their advice:

-Try making tasty stir fries, curries, and vegetable soups.

-Make your salad more than lettuce.

-Don’t be afraid to try new vegetables or to re-try the ones you didn’t like as a child.

-Your protein should take up approximately 1/3rd of your plate.

This is exactly what I’ve been doing on Atkins, and what I would recommend to anyone starting a low-carb diet!  Many people freak out upon hearing the words "low carb," having been brainwashed by the media into thinking that it’s all about steak, bacon, cheese and butter.  It’s not!  Any healthy low-carb diet includes plenty of vegetables, low-sugar fruits, nuts, and legumes.  Sure, we don’t eat many of the sweeter or more starchy stuff, but let’s face it – humans spent millenia without much in the way of bread, potatoes, or bananas, and they did just fine.

It’s been my experience that most people who claim to dislike vegetables never had them prepared properly.  Sure, it’s unlikely that anyone will like every vegetable, but I suspect that many of you veggie-haters would be pleasantly surprised if you had them prepared properly.  I have a few salad-type recipes here, and there are many more to be found if you engage your Google-Fu.

Viva la veggies!