Just a Guy Who Reads the Papers

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Egg recall enormous — sensible consumers are best solution

I’m sure you’ve read or heard something in the news about the humongous egg recall that took place last week. The latest numbers I’ve heard are that about 500 million eggs were recalled for fear they might be tainted with salmonella. (I don’t know that I’ve ever had salmonella, but I’ve heard it is incredibly awful.) That’s an incredible number of eggs. Us egg lovers are saddened by such a waste.

Nut-wing media, politicians know no shame about Muslim Center furor

If it were even remotely possible for those lambasting our eyes and ears from the nut-wing media — especially Fox News and most conservative talk radio — to feel any sense of shame, they ought to be ashamed about the way they’ve misled, distorted, and all around demonized plans by a Muslim community in New York to build a Muslim Center near “Ground Zero,” the former site of the World Trade Center.

How about we all try getting by with less ‘stuff’ in our lives?

OK, so this is my little “sermonette” (or just a rant?) for today: Maybe our nation and our world would be in better shape all around if we just all tried to get through life with less “stuff,” i.e., material possessions in general and luxury items specifically.

‘Stupid crooks’ should be a legitimate criminal classification

I read something in this morning’s local paper (yes, I DO still read newspapers) that convinced me that “stupid crooks” should be a bona fide classification under the law.

Three women, showing signs of being seriously drunk throughout the incident, ran up a $39 tab at a local Waffle House restaurant (if you don’t have a Waffle House where you live, you can still figure out from the name what sort of restaurant it is, right?). When it came time to pay, they simply fled the restaurant, jumped in a car and took off.

Election follies moving into full mode — they never really ended

I have taken my “election year” vows again — I hope to be equally hostile to ALL major political parties as the politicians ramp up full-speed toward the political abyss we call elections.

Be mindful of Internet credibility gaps and traps

When you’re browsing to and fro throughout the Internet, you should always be mindful of some real “credibility gaps” inherent in what you find. Not everything on the Internet is actually true — some of it (to swipe Stephen Colbert’s term) isn’t even very “truthy.”

TV show prompts me to look more critcally at self-help industry

Given the fact that the so-called “self-help industry,” or “self-help movement” is a multibillion dollar industry, I wonder that I’ve lived so many years without paying it much attention.

I saw a television special on ABC a few days ago — “Mind Games” I think it was — which recounted the horrific death of some people devoted to one of the contemporary “self-help” gurus in a sweat lodge gone wrong a couple of years ago.

Fitness may be overrated as predictor of long life

I know this may sound like something I’m writing to excuse my own laziness and poor health habits, but I’m serious (at least sort of serious) about this: Fitness may be somewhat overrated as a predictor of whether you’ll live a long life.

If lovely calves aren’t your best feature, how are your abs?

I recently posted a confession that my calves may not be the fittest or best-looking part of my anatomy. Then I ran onto an article at the Huffington Post blog about a freshman Republican Congressman from Illinois, Aaron Schock, who’s stirring up controversy and causing hearts (of men and women) to flutter over his attractive abs.

Fitness includes good looking legs, I guess

I’m not so naive to think that I’ll win any Handsome Hunk of the Year Honors, at my age, no matter how much I improve my currently poor level of physical fitness. (I’ve hinted to my wife that she should think of me as a real “hunk” in the making. She seems to think the word “chunk” is more appropriate.)

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