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Universally Known Nike Campaign + Hot Chicks with Douchebags =

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Oh yeah, the Olympics are coming like the British. My Inner Doomsdayer's lovws it. I mean, really loves it. That up-and-coming China's staging the biggest, baddest mofo capitalism-drug-sports extravaganza in the history of humanity, but it's so going to go bust. If I wasn't so frugal I'd bet it's marred by terrorist bombings, minorities' protests, ( Read more... )

Mother and I enjoy the Tour de France as much for the athleticism of comely men as for the doping scandals that befall the most arrogant. While we agree to heckle and jeckle France, the capital of cycling, for not having any riders in the current top ten, we do not agree when it comes to Jon & Kate Plus 8. Once we agreed on the entertainment value ( Read more... )

Somehow I've gotten interested in the Vikings' Greenland settlements and The Year Without Summer [1816] so I've just had to read more and more about the Little Ice Age. Luckily, the latest book I read [The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850] isn't super Euro-centric since there's lots on volcano eruptions in the Southern Hemisphere ( Read more... )

I was waiting in line at the café next door to my work when the prepossessing young lady in front of me was asking the baristas questions like "What's espresso?" and "What's a caramocha?" This young lady was in her mid-twenties like me, but how in the universe was she ignorant of what are mochas, lattés, and frappuccinos? I was inclined to shout, " ( Read more... )

It was not long ago that my brain tuned out all the election humbug about how the candidates are branding themselves, therefore my only concern is their fashion sense. To me, not one candidate seems to have one iota of wardrobe daring even though they all spew something about being different from whoever is their nemesis that week. Really, if these ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, I've suckered into the diet crap and craze out there. I lost ten/twelve pounds early last year before my weight range plateaued, but I kept that flab off. Lucky me. I've started losing some more since I've upped the workout regiment, so of course I've got struck by the itch to check the latest in BMI charts that scare models scared of BMI ( Read more... )

World's Worst Swim Trunks Ad: To Be Work Safe or Not?

One of my cousins of some odd degree directed me to article story on the State of Kentucky Teeth. Of course the subject matter disturbed me because as much as one-fourth of my relatives reside there. No wonder my mother caused her daughters to be so dentally-obsessed since most of her maternal aunts and uncles had dentures by fifty due to the ( Read more... )