:EDUCATED IN THE WEST

I’ve always wondered what happens to people’s bodies when they lose a lot of weight. The person in the link below is one such individual. “A lot” probably doesn’t do justice to the amount he really shed, which was on the order of 400lbs. (in four years) and all without any abdominal surgery [...]

Given that we’re in the thick of the presidential primary season, one can hardly be surprised by the army of network and cable news talking heads that have been deployed throughout the fifty states to discuss and over-analyze every little detail of the campaigns. The pages of every paper are filled with op-eds, endorsements [...]

Wow, Mitt, wow. (Safe for work)
“Who let the dogs out?” and “bling-bling”? Just wow.
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Here are three very recent news stories that caught my eye:
1.  Nobel laureate James Watson
2.  Pope John Paul II 
3.  Super Jumbo to Singapore (View the slide show, too.)

Since the second ever two Koreas summit is making news right now, I think this entry is appropriate.

Not long ago, I was flipping through former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s autobiography, Madam Secretary. Albright writes of her visit to North Korea made at the very end of President Clinton’s tenure in the White [...]

I’m certain that by now most of you have heard of Azia Kim, the imposter undergraduate that was asked to leave the campus of Stanford University. It seems that Ms. Kim had managed to live and “work” as a Stanford student over the last eight months despite not ever having been accepted to the [...]

RBL, Babs and Commander Plaza were in West L.A. this past weekend and we all ended up at a local Persian restaurant talking politics over some lamb shanks, sabzi polo and wine.
Not surprisingly, the topic of the presidential race came up. Now, I’m politically neutral on this blog, but let’s for a moment say [...]

Well, there you have it, folks. I guess that being gay is all about state of mind. Why, after some intense counseling sessions, jam-packed into three weeks, Rev. Ted Haggard, the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, has declared himself to be cured “completely heterosexual.” You’ll recall that Haggard was the mega-church [...]

Well, as I feared, the solution to the intractable Iraq situation is far more complex than most people realize it to be. Moreover, it seems that the plan proposed by the particular pundit linked above is quite similar to my own personal solution for ending world hunger, preventing nuclear annihilation, and saving the global [...]

Hey, does anyone know that Sam Cooke song Wonderful World? It’s a favorite of mine.  Anyway, I was watching a video on YouTube today and was reminded of some of the lyrics.
#Don’t know much about geography
Don’t know much trigonometry
Don’t know much about algebra
Don’t know what a slide rule is for.#
Pay attention to that first [...]

These are perhaps the three worst pictures ever taken of President Bill Clinton. Once again, I ask that the readers place their trust in me. Remember Nick Nolte, Eva Mendes, Linda Cardellini and the phonecam images I took of them? Or should I say, “Remember the blurred, tiny images that I assured [...]

As most of you can imagine, I’ve been pretty obsessed with Tuesday’s coup d’etat in Thailand. It has temporarily taken over my life as I’ve been thinking and reading about it for the past two days. For those around me, life goes on, but for me, it’s like I’m in a different [...]

Last week I mentioned that the Royal Thai Police had managed to collar the man suspected in the much publicized murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The suspect, 41 year-old John Mark Karr, was taken by United States immigration officers in Thailand and landed at Los Angeles International Airport tonight aboard a Thai Airways jet– TG794, [...]

Well, it was a long shot, you have to admit. Today, primary elections in Nevada were held and, quite unfortunately, EITW-backed GOP candidate for Governor Melody Damayo (aka Mimi Miyagi) failed to secure her party’s nomination.  As regular readers know, Damayo has spent much of her career as an adult film star and because [...]

Those of you who read HuffPo may have seen a link to a Newsweek article about the “new Ivies.” This is the lead-in to the article:
A generation ago, elite schools were a clearly defined group: the eight schools in the Ivy League, along with such academic powerhouses as Stanford, the University of Chicago, MIT [...]

Whoa! Looks like the secret is out. I popped into my WCU office and discovered an interesting article pinned to a colleague’s door. This month’s issue of Money Magazine features the fifty best jobs in America. Surprisingly, “college professor” was listed at an eye-popping number two–the second best job to have [...]

In case you were wondering, she was on the Late Late Show again tonight. No, I didn’t go. After the fiasco last time (four hours for four minutes), I’ll just pass. Although, I still have those VIP tickets, which may go unused now. Anyway, no big news, except that I learned [...]