One of the more enduring selling points of travel is the promise of leaving much of our day-to-day routine at home. The part of it we too often leave behind, however, is our healthy diet. Did I lose you at “healthy” or “diet”? For the sake of argument, let’s say …
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Time to Start Reading Up on Global Warming
So, a U.N. document that’s part of another, upcoming climate change session has been obtained by FOX News and it’s a doozy. And by doozy, I mean doozy. The document lays out a huge reordering of the world economy, involving trillions in wealth transfer as well as dizzying outlays for …
Read More »This Can't Be the Same Country I Grew Up In
Zdorovo comrades! Normally I’d say “Hello America,” but here’s The One Thing: This can’t be the same country I grew up in, because in the America I grew up in the headlines would be a whole lot different today. • Is Beck right? Click here to join the debate Tuesday …
Read More »Afghan Headmaster Risks His Life to Give Girls an Education
KABUL, Afghanistan – Aziz Royesh opens the doors to Marefat High School every morning with one eye gazing toward his country’s future — and the other looking warily over his shoulder. One morning three months ago, he says, he was greeted at the school in West Kabul not by students …
Read More »Worst Celebrity Death Hoaxes
Rest assured pop fans, Britney Spears is NOT dead; she’s just the latest celebrity named in a death hoax. The same day that Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died, Internet rumors were flying that Jeff Goldblum fell to his death during an on-set accident in New Zealand (the same rumor …
Read More »Media Eventually Covers Fringe Causes to Cover Their Butt
Nancy Pelosi couldn’t be more clear. These tea party protests couldn’t have been more a waste of time. Rich folks whining so she wouldn’t be obliging. So she wouldn’t. She didn’t. She came not to a one in her native California. I went across the country to see what the …
Read More »Halle Berry Was on 'Knots'? The Cast of 'Knots Landing' Then and Now
“Knots Landing,” the ’80s’ version of Wisteria Lane, is the second-longest-running series in TV history (right behind “Gunsmoke”), lasting 14 years and 344 episodes. This past weekend, the “Dallas” spin-off was honored at the TV Land Awards as it celebrated its 30th anniversary. Most of its stars were in attendance, …
Read More »Every Administration Has Its Villains
I think every administration has its villains. Ronald Reagan had his evil Soviet empire. President Bush his own Axis of Evil. This president? In a word, business. Not all businesses, but it seems most big businesses. The ones who make money — or try to. So creditors who’ve lost billions …
Read More »Energy Secretary's White-Paint Proposal Puzzles Climate-Change Experts
Energy Secretary Steven Chu stunned the audience at a London scientific conference Tuesday with a radical but simple proposal to combat global warming: Paint all the roofs of all the buildings in the world white. If we did so, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, and if we also made sure …
Read More »American Idol' Finales: From Sensational to Snoozefests
Season 8 of “American Idol” has come down to a faceoff on Tuesday night between two very different performers: Kris Allen, the heartthrob with the boy-band looks and John Mayer vibe, and Adam Lambert, the highly dramatic belter with the androgynous sex appeal. Almost every season finale of “Idol” has …
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