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Monday, May 30, 2011

Parlay that body

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It is ridiculous that athletic ability plays such a large role in college acceptances. Institutes of higher learning are supposed to be ab...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Who would you rather be?

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I've broached the subject before of people whose lives I wouldn't have minded trading my own for. Right now, on paper at least, th...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

It stays with you

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When I was a senior in college, I was ready to do a fast 100 fly. But at my conference championship I blew all three turns very badly (this ...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Live for today

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I'm about a week late with this, but just wanted to register an impressionistic impression of Harold Camping. Back in the 1970's a...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Blofeld Jr.

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Serbian authorities announced today that they had arrested war criminal Ratko Mladic, who was responsible for the siege of Sarajevo which k...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Poor Richard

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's preference for plainer women because they were more grateful is reminiscent of what another famous womanizer onc...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

A narcissist, but probably not a sociopath

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As more and more evidence surfaces about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, it becomes increasingly evident that he is what is called a sex addict. ...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Lance

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A friend wrote last night, "I t is hard to imagine that three people who were all very close to him [Lance Armstrong] are all lying....
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Gender Differences, Part X: Food

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For men, food is basically nutrition.  For women, it is an all encompassing obsession with which they have an extremely complicated love/hat...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Confessions of a Beta Male, Part II

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Back in December I wrote about how I had come to that most unwelcome of conclusions, that I am a beta male . Further reflection has only r...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

May 21st

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(Harold Camping) Yesterday I drove by one of those billboards which announced the end of the world this coming Saturday. Upon doing a litt...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Sammy Wanjiru, 1986 - 2011

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You may remember Samuel Wanjiru from the 2008 Olympics, where he won the marathon in 2:06:32, an amazing time given the 80 degrees plus te...

The Catholic church

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An article on the front page of the NY Times this morning detailed a report the Catholic church had put out as to the causes of all the rece...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Vanity, and vanity

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The following article appeared in today's NY Post: 'Gorgeous' guilty, could be executed Flamboyant Bonanno crime boss Vincen...

Tom Jones

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In the late 60's, Tom Jones wasn't considered cool like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. He was a little too much old-fashioned c...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

"The Great Seducer"

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As you've undoubtedly heard by now, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund and the leading candidate to ru...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

A new job for the FBI profilers

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The previous post about Coral Watts got me to thinking about the job of FBI profilers, and how hard it must have been to track down a serial...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Sociopath alert: Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich, who declared that he was running for President yesterday, is someone whose sociopathy I've always been unsure about. Ther...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Where are all the death penalty opponents?

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It has become increasingly apparent that Osama bin Laden was executed, rather than killed while "reaching for a gun," as the Obama...

A belated movie review (from my son)

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Johnny, with extra time on his hands before he leaves for Afghanistan, has been watching a lot of movies on his computer. Although I warne...
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Virtually everyone who knows John finds him completely tactless and insufferably opinionated. He sees himself as refreshingly honest. That said, this blog is still an excellent way to kill time while putting off work. If you're a newcomer, you might find browsing through the older posts an amusing waste of time as well.
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