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‘Stupid crooks’ should be a legitimate criminal classification

Just a Guy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:50:20 +0000

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.

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‘Stupid crooks’ should be a legitimate criminal classification

Election follies moving into full mode — they never really ended

Just a Guy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:41:55 +0000

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.

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Be mindful of Internet credibility gaps and traps

Just a Guy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:47:52 +0000

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.”

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

Just a Guy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:56:09 +0000

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.

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Fitness may be overrated as predictor of long life

Just a Guy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:38:57 +0000

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.

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

Just a Guy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:57:38 +0000

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.

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Fitness includes good looking legs, I guess

Just a Guy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:45:55 +0000

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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New ‘diet plan’ works for me, my wife — diabetes diagnosis

Just a Guy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:12:06 +0000

I may have mentioned somewhere here a few months ago that my wife was hospitalized briefly for a heart flutter. (She’s doing very well now, thank you.) While she was hospitalized, she got another big surprise: She was diagnosed with diabetes. The diagnosis is that her blood glucose levels make her diabetic, but the good news is, she should be able to control it with a proper diet, regular exercise — and no need for medication.

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Gulf dodges first hurricane bullet of oil spill season

Just a Guy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:46:54 +0000

For a few days there it looked like the cry throughout the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent states was “batten down the hatches” for Hurricane Alex. Fortunately, the storm turned sharply to the west, away from the oil spill area, and averted a worse disaster.

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Heat spell makes me fantasize about travel plans from long ago

Just a Guy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:46:59 +0000

I’m sitting in the middle of a nasty stretch of hot, humid summer here in the Missouri Ozarks wishing I were someplace cooler. This early summer heat spell, I confess, is turning my fantasies back to some plans I had years ago. Actually, I’m on a “dual track” fantasy here, neither of which is likely to come true, but both of which look good today.

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