Miscellaneous

Bullets If you needed confirmation that Olympic athletes are pigs, look no further [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/most_of_the_iWUNgznLeBhhff7VI9wlSP]: "no matter the host country, it's always a struggle keeping booze and condoms in strong supply." * * * * * * * I saw Spider Man yesterday. Very

Autobiographical Corner The weather is so hot, the thermometers have stopped working. My iGoogle homepage application said the temperature in my town would hit 108. That's what a local radio station announced, too. My friend's car thermometer said it hit 107. Another friend's car

Garden pic from yesterday: peppers in the foreground, then The Verdant Pathway, then watermelons (next to trellis), brussels sprout, tomatoes to the right, grapes further back. This is about 40% of my garden. Garden Stuff Whatta hard year to garden. The Spring was hot, then cool, then hot again . . . and

Two Things Whew, things are a whirlwind at the office. Not much today. I just have a few quick things: 1. This piece from the current issue of The Atlantic about John F. Kennedy [http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/jackie-and-the-girls/9000/]. Man, I knew the guy was

The Return Monday I've returned from vacation. Same as every year: Houghton Lake (Michigan's largest inland lake) for a week with Marie, seven kids, and 40 in-laws. It's a pleasant time, and it leaves a ton of time for reading. It's the

"[Y]our very prayers against the angry feelings that trouble you should be gentle, calm, and without vehemence." St. Francis de Sales

A family in Colorado was reunited with their lost bulldog, after it was found 500 miles away. In response, the bulldog was like, “Jeez, can't these people take a hint?” A new study found that pigeons can actually recognize human faces. So I guess my pigeon friend was

Over the weekend, a man in Tennessee was kicked out of a Kenny Chesney concert because he looked too much like Kenny Chesney. That actually happens a lot – in fact, my grandma was kicked out of an Aerosmith concert for looking too much like Steven Tyler.

From the current issue of New York Magazine: In Hell's Kitchen recently, two overweight tourists caused a pedicab to tip over backward. TDE comment: It's a phenomenon slated to increase. A study released this week says that 33% of all Americans are now obese. In Central