I just pee, shake it once and zip up. I know I probably have some dribble in there(in fact I know I do).

Shake once and zip. That's how young boys are taught to pee.

My very young granddaughter was a little OCD about wiping every last bit. We told her that catching those microscopic drips was the job of underpants.

So, yes, your concern is from the OCD. You are wise to let it go.

then it becomes a theory (or scientific "truth") that remains true until it is refuted by another verified hypothesis".

Example: The big bang theory is true, unless it is disproven.

And to make is more clear, replace the word true with accepted by [name the authority] as true.

Therefore, various "authorities" may have various "truths." Kinda like the string theory of reality.

I don't hear many scientists using the "R" word (reality). I hear words like theory and hypothesis. When a reader starts quoting these theories and hypotheses as reality, you can't blame the scientist, who is just observing and theorizing.

True, religions and governments might adopt an official position, but that's different.

I have to go out of my way, drive out, to buy all of those things. (high quality imported cheese, french red wine, high quality chocolates, high quality nuts)

I don't buy regular candy or chocolate for my grandchildren, but I do have two incredible recipes with raw cacao powder and other raw ingredients. One is chocolate ice cream (with butter, coconut oil, egg yolks), the other is a chocolate bar (with coconut oil and "stiffened" with raw potato starch powder). I use a secret sweetener (LOL, it's not paleo, but it's not sugar). The grandkids usually ask for nuts when they come over.

Talking only about rawpaleo matters is quite boring...

Pardon me for snipping your sentence, but if you are looking for the cure for boredom on the internet, you are barking up the wrong tree.

Go make a caveman exercise video or write that raw paleo book or learn how to make obsidian arrowheads or ....

Besides Triclosan, many people use alcohol hand sanitizer frequently.  At the very least, over cleaning the skin with harsh chemicals completely disrupts the skin's microbiome. The old saying, "You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die," reminds us that a little dirt is not to be avoided; it isn't harmful.

Triclosan is added to many shower gel products, too. Bad, bad, bad!

I have been on the paleo diet for about 2 weeks, but I still feel crappy... so I do believe these food allergies are the root problem. Any help would be appreciated!

From this forum, you can get a good idea about how to start a RAW paleo diet. Raw makes a big difference in the toxic load that you put in your body with cooked meats.

For allergies, I find that an elimination diet has helped me identify foods that were inflammatory to my body. I used Dr. Coca's heart-rate variability method http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020108.coca.pdf to test for food and environmental allergies that I didn't even know I had, because the allergic response was inflammation, not a runny nose or skin rash. I also get good ideas about reducing inflammation from Dave Asprey's website and podcasts https://www.bulletproofexec.com/. Almost everything that Asprey suggests can be done 100% raw or very gently cooked.

If you are eating a paleo diet already, it should be easy to pinpoint your allergic foods. Try each animal food that you eat, including egg whites and yolks separately. Then check out oranges, tomatoes and all nightshades. Test nuts, if you eat them, and a positive reaction will point to mold more likely than not. If you react strongly to molds, clean out your house of all molds, even if you have to rip out carpets! Or move for a while and see if you start to improve. There are companies that can test your house for you. You sound sick enough to be looking that deeply for a cause of your inflammation.

Thanks. The hind quarter is very lean, but a little tougher to chaw, I found. Do you spit out the tough tendon?

The hind quarter has a lot of large muscles with a minimum of tendon and connective tissue. Names of beef cuts vary from place to place, but here in California the cuts have names like round or rump in the name, such as rump roast or round roast. Also from this area are cuts like eye of round and London broil, but the latter can also mean flank steak, depending on your regional names for beef.

If you are encountering tendons, then you are probably on the lower leg. You can gnaw that area, but table-manners do not apply.

A beef-anatomy chart can help you learn the cuts of beef. Just buy something you can afford and then learn where it comes from for future reference. Youtube has some good instructional butcher videos that can help you communicate better with your butcher.

How and about what was the article derogatory? Besides President Mugabe's regime, that is.

... but  you americans certainly do not possess all, or even most, of the necessary freedoms. Not even the most important freedom of all, the freedom of association.

From where I'm sitting, Americans can and do associate freely in all aspects of our lives. Groups may clash with other groups, but for the very large part, we are pretty unrestricted.

What I'm curious about is where your views come from. Perhaps international opinion skews the news in the direction of sensationalism (because it sells). The US is not all Ferguson and Florida. It's all just me and roughly one-third of a billion people just like me, but different.

"They" always said to keep animal scraps out of the compost, but that was just to prevent scavenging, carnivores from digging up the garden. So keep that in mind.

Have you ever grown dry-bed tomatoes? You can google the method. They grow more tasty, and no worries about watering and rainfall.

It's one of those "who knew?" things. MacDonald's was just an American meal (burger, fries, milk shake) that would feed your family of four with change back from a dollar. Ray Kroc was a great operations manager who knew how to keep the cost of dining down. His franchises were duplicatable. His management training let a lot of earnest kids make a white-collar career. The lure of agricultural science was that it make robust-looking field products such as unblemished potatoes.

The moral dilemma came when the science revealed its dark side. The nice, smooth potato was clearly destructive to its own fields and the people who ate it.

It's a US corporation's character test. To be sure, there are people like the tobacco barons that walk away from the family evil-doing, but that doesn't kill the corporation. Why? Because the corporation is owned by a bazillion shareholders (it has almost a billion shares), and its only aim is to keep the share price up. Any dissenter, no matter how valuable to the corporation, won't be needed once he blows the whistle; he'll fade into anonymity and the shareholders will be happy again.

"Better living through chemistry," was chemical company DuPont's slogan and the motto of every American in the 20th Century. That attitude even convinced most American mothers to abandon breastfeeding her children. Our American Dream has clouded our judgment. No one company is to blame, but the US is an oligarchy, and the power brokers are the oligarchs, so it's hard to dethrone them.

I think the American Dream has to change. I think we don't know what our dream is anymore.