Jul 31 2009
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
By Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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So they had beers at the White House. Crowley came out of this thing as the sole winner.
What made me laugh is the [...]
Jul 30 2009
LONDON (Reuters) – Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market worth an estimated $48 billion [...]
Jul 30 2009
13 million unborn babies were aborted each year, that’s more than the entire population of Norway (4.8 m) and Denmark (5.5 m) combined. That’s some force and presence. Dare the active pro-lifers/abortion hellraisers go there to try their luck? Hey, listen, China Pledges Fewer Death Sentences. Nap, they won’t. It’s [...]
Jul 29 2009
A Catholic priest, an Indian doctor, a rich Chinese businessman and an Italian from New Jersey were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers in front of them.
The Italian from New Jersey fumed,
‘What’s with those jerks? We’re waiting fifteen minutes between shots!’
The Indian doctor chimed in, ‘I don’t know, but [...]
Jul 28 2009
Wolfberry- commercially called goji berry – is the common name for the fruit of two very closely related species: Lycium barbarum (Chinese: 寧夏枸杞; pinyin: Níngxià gǒuqǐ) and L. chinense (Chinese: 枸杞; pinyin: gǒuqǐ), two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae (which also includes the potato, tomato, eggplant, deadly nightshade, chili pepper, and tobacco). It [...]
Jul 28 2009
One night about 12 or 13 years ago Joseph Connelly came to dine.
Joe’s Gofer’s college buddy, and the publisher of the wildly popular magazine VegNews. When I first met him, he was a halfway vegetarian, still eating limited human friendly food, like creatures from the sea and land. This time around, he was completely a [...]
Jul 28 2009
Madam Michelle replied that her tattoos
are an expression of love for these gods that i wear on my skin, and keep in my heart..
She titled this shot the goddess tattoo. It was taken over 2 years ago at the Sunsport Gardens, South Florida’s most scenic family naturist resort.
Women began putting tattoos have become a [...]
Jul 27 2009
As I was driving Pumpkin to camp, we heard the news on the radio that a Harvard professor got arrested in his own home.
He came back from a trip, couldn’t open his door. So he broke into his own house.
One of his neighbors called 911 to report a break in.
Soon the cops arrived.
The prominent scholar [...]
Jul 27 2009
Like father like son ..
Joe’s son Nate is playing, as QB at Notre Dame, his Alma Mater. Very neat. Joe the senior had won four Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers but he never had the body of his son who stands at 6-foot-4, and weights 200 pounds. But Nate is tranferring to Pasadena [...]
Jul 27 2009
By Anjelah Johnson
Girls, I know you can all relate to this one.
Loved her accent
Jul 27 2009
By Calvin Trillin
The New Yorker 85.22 (July 27, 2009): p32. (4476 words)
Scott Johnson sees himself as one of those guys who never caught a break. “Seems like whatever I did was never enough,” he told the police in one interview. “It seems like whenever I was almost at the point of obtaining something or [...]
Jul 26 2009
The killing of an abortion doctor George R. Tiller outraged me, to say the least.
Long before I set foot on America, I once heard this advice from an Aunt who lives in San Francisco to my cousin in Hong Kong who’s coming to US for schooling:
“Learn Spanish.”
I thought my ears were malfunctioning at that moment.
Please [...]
Jul 25 2009
The famous Nik and Dick debate.
I first read about this kitchen debate during my early research. Don’t remember in Nixon’s bio or elsewhere. I’ve read about William Safire’s column On Language from time to time.
Here, he re-captured the scene of the day in Moscow exactly 50 years ago when he was young press [...]
Jul 25 2009
Reportedly those print dresses/skirts are all the rage in Japan.
I’m dumbfounded.
But again, what can I say, it’s Japs.
Go figure.
Reportedly, love in 2-D, with Nemutan.. is also a Phenomenon
Lonely?
Pick up a book, or sport, or participate in a worthy cause, volunteer in your community.
I dont have enough time in a day, to moan or wonder about [...]
Jul 25 2009
There are 7 or 8 million people in New York, yet finding a date seems impossible.
To meet the needs of singles, there are speed dating, It’s just lunch, JDate for particular race, .. .. the whole nine yard.
Helen Hong, a television producer and stand-up comedian of indeterminate age — “I could tell you 27, but [...]
Jul 24 2009
US Open Series. Men’s quarterfinal.
He wears his cap low. Picks on his shirt at shoulders. Touches his face and tapes at his cap. His shirt is on the large side so he has to consistently pulling it backward, and uses it wipe his sweats. His feet come close as his fires his booming serve. He [...]