To: Rep. Vern Buchanan [...]

Five months ago I weighed 246 pounds. This morning I weighed in at 218. My weight loss has been in fits and starts, going up a few pounds some days, down a few on others. I’ve obviously had more down days than up days, and today was a neutral day, with neither a gain [...]

Herald-Tribune story: “SARASOTA - SNN News 6, the Herald-Tribune’s pioneering 24-hour television news station, will go dark tonight at midnight as managers seek additional investors.”

Washington Post headline: To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults. It seems the hard-core Muslim fundies aren’t fooled by the hard-core American nut-cases who portray the man they often call “B. Hussein Obama” as a Muslim sympathizer. Al Qaeda knows better. They see Obama as a sympathetic figure to people of color — including [...]

This National Geographic video is about brain changes in London cabbies, who famously must pass an extensive test about their city knowledge before getting their licenses. However, most better professional cab drivers in less-stringent jurisdictions also end up accumulating vast quantities of knowledge about their environments, so the same concept undoubtedly applies. I also expect [...]

Obviously, cleaning up the Bush mess is going to be one heck of a job. But let’s forget the work side of the presidency for a moment and talk about Barack Obama as husband, father, and regular guy, because no matter how hard the Republicans try to portray Obama as an out-of-touch elitist, he is [...]

I totally love both mountains and snow. On postcards, where they belong.
I believe God intended me to live somewhere I can pick oranges from my own tree and eat them immediately, while they’re still fresh; where I can go sailing on a “wet” boat (like a kayak, canoe or Sunfish), wearing nothing but swim trunks, [...]

As a true conservative, I’m not as worried about men who prefer men or women who prefer women as I am about this newfangled “one man, one woman” nonsense.

From Reuters: “Dozens of Iranians burnt posters of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in Tehran on Tuesday and waved Palestinian flags in support of Gaza, according to a witness and photographs.”
So much for the “Obama’s not really an American” and the “He’s a secret Muslim” cranks. The Iranians know better. They don’t see Obama as black [...]

“Most of America’s largest publicly traded corporations — including several that are receiving billions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers to finance their recovery — have set up offshore operations that could help them avoid paying U.S. taxes on their profits, a government study released yesterday found.”
That’s the first sentence in a Washington Post article published [...]