I second that El Yucatan green is good.  For hot/med-hot flavor I like  Key Lime Habanero hot sauce.

For mild heat, especially on eggs, I like \"the Pepper Plant\" hot sauce (any variety).

zanzibar, I see that you list Fundamental Christianity along with racism and illiteracy.  I\'m not sure I\'d have the courage to make that parallel.  I\'m not sure that anti-intellectualism confines itself to red states; I\'d guess it\'s about equal.  One thing you are missing is divorce in your stats.  Nine of the top ten divorce states are red states.

ThomPhoenix,  Here are some sites that are non-vegetarian from which you can estimate the relative value of soy vs. beef.  I particularly like the first link, which tells us days of protein requirements per acre of use. 2224 soy vs. 77 beef.
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:V7wuAuizsZ0J:www.spcouncil.org/ecofutur.html+protein+per+acre+soy+vs+wheat&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/ansci/beef/eb74w.htm
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/agec2/mf2123.pdf

I am no longer a vegetarian, but I cannot defend my meat eating ways from an environmental or moral perspective.

Eating meat may be natural in the context of a hunter-gatherer society, but in a post-agricultural society it is somewhat ridiculous.  Very few of us exert enough energy on a day to day basis to justify our extreme caloric intake.  This applies not just to meat, but also to processed foods loaded with high-fructose corn syrup.

Of particular interest to me when I was a vegetarian was the fact that mushrooms have a higher density of protein by weight than beef.

I did find this really nice smelling plant once, while walking in the woods, collected a few, boiled some water, and shoved some leaves in.

Please look plants up before doing this.  I\'d like you to live to a ripe old age.

I\'m American, and it is difficult but not impossible to find un-bagged tea here.  Also, people here tend to think orange pekoe is a flavor rather than a grade of tea.  On the west coast where I live it seems like it\'s easier to get green bulk tea than black bulk.  I wouldn\'t know much about tea myself, but I worked at a very good cafe in college that taught me a lot about tea, coffee and restaurant sanitation (both owners were PhD.s in microbiology).

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3550/argue.htm

On America:  

Yes, we are a violent gun obsessed culture.  I don\'t particularly see this as all that bad.  Statistically it\'s a drop in the bucket compared to the fact that we\'re a car obsessed culture.   Dying in a car accident, or being hit as a pedestrian is what you should be worrying about statistically speaking.  This applies no matter where you live.

Please don\'t confuse ignorance with stupidity.  The first is ostensibly easier to correct.

On pole-arms:

Technically, a spear is a subset of pole arms.  I would probably consider there to be four different pole-arm fighting skills depending on whether it was optimized to being used for stabbing, swinging blade, swinging hammer, or pulling to dismount riders.  Also, tactically most of the longer pole arms require formations to use effectively, which is another seperate skill from fighting out of formation

On vegetarianism:

I was a vegetarian for two years, and while I agree that it would probably be environmentally, and economically beneficial for everyone to switch over.  I found it to be incompatible with being a Type I diabetic and controlling my blood sugars.  

There are environmental niches where meat raising is possible where crop farming probably wouldn\'t be without a lot more cheap labor ( hillsides where terrace farming is not easy ).

I never really got into the issue from a moral standpoint.  I mean, I don\'t think about swatting flies or eradicating cockroaches.  Life is cruel sometimes.  Should we care about every life equally?

On things I hate:

Polemicism, fanatacism, and zealotry.

Ultra-nationalism.  Anti-ecumenicalism.

I think it\'d be cool if all monsters attacked you when you came within range if they felt like they could take you.  Less artificial than just standing there till you whack at them.  Also, the combat initiator should not automatically get the first blow in.

Cool, I agree with this, and was thinking of posting something similar myself (less well thought out though).  However, I think that this should wait in the priority cue until after weapon repair or some other \'economic drain\' is implemented in PS.  

The only problem with P2P training is it keeps trias in player hands, which results in inflationary pressure unless you have some other kind of economic outflow like crafting or raw material purchases, or house rental.