Category: Bits and Pieces

I just learned that my cholesterol is slightly elevated.  It’s still in the normal zone, but on the high end of normal.  I’ve already cut a lot of fat out of my diet, so I was casting around for another way to control my numbers.  I know that people take

If you’re doing Yoga, be sure to bring the disinfectant: In the last two years, Dr. Cohen said, he has seen a 50 percent spike in patients with athlete’s foot and plantar warts. The likely culprit? Unclean exercise mats, he said. Gyms have long been hothouses for unwanted viruses, fungi

For several of my posts, there’s been a very vigorous exchange about American foreign policy. Just recently, one of my readers, who espouses what I would call a conservative viewpoint, commented about “fundamental truths” common to all people.  Another reader who, on foreign policy, is I think hostile to current

After crowing about the cheese-eating surrender monkeys losing against to an American in the Tour de France, I find very depressing the report that Floyd Landis flunked a drug test.  If a repeat drug test — with both samples drawn on the day of his extraordinary come-back — also test

Here’s an example of the fact that people with too much time on their hands sometimes create amusing things. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw]

Today, more than any other day since I’ve been blogging, the comments sections to several of my posts have just been buzzing.  I appreciate all of you who are taking the time to share your thoughts and ideas here.  I learn a lot, whether you’re defending or attacking what I

Although war rages because of them, we don’t hear the voices of the three kidnapped Israeli soldiers — Gilad Shalit, age 19; Eldad Regev, age 26; and Ehud Goldwasser, age 31. Lest they be forgotten StandWithUs.com (which is generally a good source for information about Israel in this time of

The wonderful editor at Webloggin has done something amazing for me.  He’s set up a site at www.bookwormroom.com (no mention of WordPress in that address), which will nevertheless take you right to me.  I don’t know how he’s pulled this one off, but I’m just thrilled.  It’s not that I

I have a ridiculously short work day today, and lots of work to do in that time.  Since I’m not going to be blogging, I urge you to visit the Blogfriends in my sidebar.  Not the Big Blogs — you know all about them — but the Blogfriends who consistently

As a favor, I’m watching someone’s toddler.  It’s 90 degrees, we have no air conditioning, my home is not childproof, and my own kids are intermittently “helping” with the toddler.  All I have to say is shoot me now and put me out of my misery….

In fact, the cheese-eating surrender monkeys weren’t anywhere near the winners’ podium: Floyd Landis won the Tour de France on Sunday, keeping cycling’s most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year. The 30-year-old Landis cruised to victory on the Champs-Elysees, a day after regaining the leader’s yellow