Today’s Boston Globe has a short editorial called “Aging Boomers: Hit the pavement slowly.” This sentence says it all, for guys like me, because I’ve been there and done that:
Training all-out to overcompensate for fading physical gifts often leads to injuries.
After decades of seeming to be immune to running injuries, the last few years have taught me that exercising smarter, not running more, is what I need to do.
Since the January inauguration, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have shown they aren’t just about knocking Bush. Did they have a choice?
For the midterm elections a few years ago, Colbert shared the cover of Rolling Stone with Stewart. But now Colbert, who is in the second of three weeks away, has the cover all to himself. But what happens when there are no more print editions of magazines? There won’t be any covers of anything anymore. BTW, this blog turns three years old on Saturday, and this is post #1700.
A tip o’ the DogRat toupee to Denro for the tip.
I’d never heard Laura Ingraham before today. I didn’t even know who it was on the radio when I came across her program, until she went to a break and said her name. I’m a liberal, and I think Keith Olbermann goes overboard sometimes, but Laura Ingraham is very scary. I’ve seen clips of Glen Beck on The Colbert Report, and he’s even scarier. And that’s why I think Keith Olbermann has to go overboard. Because being willing to compromise is seen as a sign of weakness, and Olbermann knows it, so he doesn’t compromise.
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Richard Egan, co-founder of data storage technology leader EMC2, was a Republican fundraiser and a friend of Dick Cheney. Diagnosed in May with advanced lung cancer, a couple of days ago Egan killed himself with a shotgun.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20608388/detail.html
Richard Egan, 73, was inside his Four Seasons condo on Boylston Street when he killed himself in a closet. His wife and visiting nurse were in the home at the time and heard the gunshot.
As a noted Republican, Richard Egan had a perfect opportunity to step forward and proclaim his right to die with dignity, and denounce the lies about the proposed health care legislation having a provision calling for “death panels.” He didn’t do that, but I think somebody should.
I met him only once, with a 20-minute one-on-one interview eight years after Chappaquiddick, three years before he lost the Democratic nomination to Jimmy Carter. No matter what you may have thought of him as a man, I have to stay that Ted Kennedy was very impressive in person. As a senator he knew his stuff.
P.S. Ted didn’t lose the nomination, of course, in 1980. He dropped out of the running.
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It was first reported that Henry Gates would drink Red Stripe at the White House beer summit, but he had Sam Adams Light.
Red Stripe is Jamaican beer, and that reminded me of “Dr. No”, which was partially filmed in Jamaica.
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“Dr. No” is from 1962, around the same time that Ska hit the music scene in Jamaica. After the movie came out there was a Jamaican version of the James Bond theme.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2009/AUG/JamesBond.mp3]Ska came after Calypso and evolved into Reggae, thanks in part to a record producer named Leslie Kong. In 1969, a few months before Woodstock, a Kong-produced record introduced America to Reggae and became a surprise hit on AM radio.
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