Saturday, January 19, 2008
You are programmed to crave fat!
How can this be? I’ll tell you how. Back in the caveman and even pre-caveman (oops, make that caveperson) days, the diet of the typical human being was pretty lacking in fats. That diet consisted mostly of grubs, nuts, berries, grains, wild game and things lying around that weren’t too gross to eat. There were no candies, ice creams, chips, pies or Filet Mignons to gird one’s middle. As you can see, right from the start, our cells are merely acting on instructions handed down from their...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Writer’s strike cripples industry
Hollywood is oozing ratings. Male writers have donned women’s garb as the strike drags on. Heh, heh. Somehow the commercials are keeping up their onslaught, whoever writes those things is still at work, maybe even putting in some overtime, it seems. Not only that, but the plausibility and intent of many of those spots is lost on me. Scene: A vehicle blissfully traverses a snow field that looks to be the birthplace of the mother of all avalanches. Razor sharp rocks whiz by on either side as the...
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Hilarity in the headlines
Amputee Sprinter barred from Olympics. Now that’s headline made for a punchline. I haven’t read the story so I am imagining it must go something like this: Amputee sprinter, Sprint Plop was barred from the Olympics today. Olympics officials explained, “we think he’s just not in step with our program.” The sprinter sought legal representation but no lawyers were willing to take the case since as one barrister put it on condition of anonymity, “he just doesn’t have a leg to stand on. I am...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Free fall free for all
Dip a toe into the dizzying pool of politics and you will find it’s an icy-hot situation. When it comes time for the convention, will Hillary and Obama be able to kiss and make up to be running mates or will it devolve into KMA and running make up? Maybe McCain will prove to be a pain over which there is no gain. Edwards might be out already, felled be rumors of Rogaine. Mitt? Huckabee? Surely these are not names presidential, but we will have to wait and see. Capitol Hillary says Barak’s no MLK...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Hair scare
Like seeing yourself on video? For a lot of us it’s like coming face-to-face with our own mortality. Recently I was watching a video and some old fart was rambling on about the old days. I listened to his thin reedy voice and noticed he had a lot of gray in his beard, I hope mine isn’t that bad. Then I observed he had obviously shopped at Costco because he had a shirt on just like the one I bought there recently. His hair was stylishly over his collar but severely limited when it came to the top...
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Thoughts on getting old(er)
What was I saying? As one’s age advances things change from being artificially hip to having artificial hips. My hips, thankfully, are still original equipment, but they have more than a few miles on them. Likewise my knees let me know they have wear, mostly in the mornings. When you find conversations among friends turn to medical maladies, you’ve hit the “golden age” I’m here to tell you. Does the debate turn to the efficiency of ED drugs? Ed: Say, how does that Viagra work anyway? Fred:...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Sitting pretty
Some things just don’t set too well with me. For instance the sit and set syndrome. At first blush they seem interchangeable, but I sat out to search the dictionary and found this at sit “to rest ones self upon the buttocks”, well that would seem to set the story straight. Well until you look at set, whereupon you will find, “to cause to sit.” Oh really? If someone offers you a chair, it seems you must set before you can sit, but sitting isn’t setting, that’s the locale where you are resting...
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Groping the news
Headlines swirl as the race to the Whitehouse heats up. Now it’s Obama and McCain. The USA Today website has a photo of the two, interestingly, McCain is to the right and Obama to the left. If you look at their eyes, Obama is looking to the left and McCain is looking to the right. I wonder if someone set that up intentionally? I know I would have. Of course the political swirl will mix things up as candidates drop by the course of this race. Of course the news story is about a poll. How accurate...
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Saturday, January 5, 2008
Thoughts on the universe.
Science is a funny thing. Astronomers will tell you “we don’t really know what the Milky Way Galaxy looks like”, then they will spend hours telling you what it looks like. Humans have always been fascinated by the stars. That probably began when they didn’t have any televisions, internet or video games to steal their attention once the sun went down. All there was to do was stare at the sky and marvel at the vast array of twinkling lights up there. Imagine, if you will, our two cave persons Zog...
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Obama, Huckabee and Britney, OH MY!
This just in, as in like, we’re all, whatever! Who cares about some dudes with weird names like Barak and Huckabee, what we want to know is - how is Britney faring with her latest break down? Did the paparazzi get any good shots of her nether regions without sufficient coverage? There never seems to be a lack of coverage about her uncoverage, if you get my drift. Never mind that a far right Christian and a black man won the first sparring match of the 2008 race to the Whitehouse, what we really...
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