I need a new back today. Despite the sit up and other exertions of unbelievable dedication, the back still goes. And it is quite prepared to go before just before the summer holiday begins. Such is life. Good thing I plan to do nothing.  •  Nevermind those who 3% of folk who think George W. Bush …

What is the bird that wakes up by making a call that consists of one cheep followed over a few seconds by seven to ten evenly spaced double cheeps in which the second double cheep is slightly highest in pitch, the rest following slightly lower and quieter? That is the one that made me realize I …

At supper time last night, the headline read "If stressed, men more likely to crave alcohol than women: study" but not any more. I think the first draft was more honest. It seems to be tough news all around for stressed men as they also suffer from significantly higher heart attack rates …

Either not having my coffee yet or lacking basic elements of an understanding of medicine is getting in my way of understanding this good news:  •  “Children who attend daycare or playgroups cut their risk of the most common type of childhood leukaemia by around 30%, a study estimates. Researchers …

That's what happens when you get up at 7:40 am. People think you work at blogging! Hah!  •  Years from now, we'll all laugh about political blogging as a flaky exercise and none will be laughed at as this sort of flake. I have this little idea: before you adhere to another's point of view, think …

I've been a big guy most of my life, though when I look back now at pictures of me from when I thought I was too heavy makes me shake my head. You do what you can, put down the seventh Ring-a-Ding Junior, do an insane number of sit-up yet still you get to wake up to news like this:  •  “While New …

Sit ups. In 115 days. Still have a gut bit there is a six pack there under all those six packs.

I hear there is a purple pill that will fix all this but I have to figure out the right question to ask. Until then sputter, hack, wheeze.  •  Technology apparently hates Santa and ruined at least one little child's Christmas forever. What next - anti-Santa beer? Santa and beer???  •  Via Ben the …

Having a horking fit every 37 minutes that would rival any hork expelled by hork-master Pete Vuckovich, it is still amazing to me, here in the depths of a winter that has yet to begin on the calendar, that baseball is so fully immersive. But this news is too good to be true:  •  “The Red Sox and …