Archive for January, 2008

OK, GUYS, FESS UP!

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

AS A PROFESSOR OF AN INTRODUCTORY SOC OF SPORT COURSE AT QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, I AM INTERESTED IN THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH MEN AND WOMEN VIEW THEIR BODIES. I’VE LONG HELD THAT MEN HAVE SIMILAR PROBLEMS AS THE MORE PUBLICIZED FEMALE PROBLEMATIC–”I AM TOO FAT!!” SO HERE IS EVIDENCE OF SHARED ANGST, AND COMMENTS ARE [...]

POLITICAL ANALYSIS COMING UP…..

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

CHECK THE WHIG-STANDARD EDITORIAL PAGE ON MONDAY FOR THE LATEST VIEWS OF YOURS TRULY ON THE AMERICAN ELECTION PRIMARIES…….YOUR COMMENTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME, ESPECIALLY COMMENTS FROM DISGRUNTLED REPUBLICANS……

GOOD OLD JAZZ DAYZ STILL HERE

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

WHENEVER I GET TO OAKLAND, I HEAD DOWN TO COLLEGE AND TO CLAREMONT AND FIND STORES THAT ARE REAL….CARRYING STUFF THAT ONE CAN ONLY DREAM OF IN KINGSTON…FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO THIS ONE…….. Groove Yard: Rockridge shop sustains LP life even after MP3 success David Rubien, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, January 19, 2008 [...]

SUB-PRIME LOAN COLLATERAL DAMAGE?

Friday, January 18th, 2008

IT’S ABSOLUTELY SAD HOW GREED DRIVES PEOPLE TO DO THINGS THAT IN CLEAR LIGHT THEY WOULD NOT DO. THEN, THE CONSEQUENCES. COLLATERAL DAMAGE OF THE SUB-PRIME BUBBLE? Mortgage Company Exec Jumps to Death Friday, January 18, 2008 (01-18) 17:20 PST Marlton, N.J. (AP) – An executive of a collapsed subprime mortgage lender jumped to his [...]

THE MUHAMMAD ALI, THE MICHAEL JORDAN OF CHESS

Friday, January 18th, 2008

BOBBY FISCHER, KNOWN TO CHESS _AFICIANADOS_ AS PERHAPS THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED MASTER’S COMPETITOR IN HISTORY, AND AS ONE OF THE STRANGEST SPORTSMEN EVER, HAS LEFT US. COMMENTS FROM CHESS PLAYERS AND NON-CHESS PLAYERS WELCOME…. Former chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at 64 From the Associated Press 9:45 AM PST, January 18, 2008 REYKJAVIK, Iceland [...]

BRINGING DEMOCRACY TO IRAQ?????

Friday, January 18th, 2008

THESE ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN FIGHTING IN THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, TO BRING TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE TO THE MIDDLE EAST…..OR, OH THOSE UNITED STATES MARINES…… COMMENTS WELCOME….. updated 7:13 p.m. EST, Thu January 17, 2008 Affidavit: Suspect’s wife at party the night of Marine’s death JACKSONVILLE, North [...]

REFLECTIONS ON A CLOUDY, COOL, DAMP AFTERNOON….

Monday, January 14th, 2008

SO, IT’S JANUARY IN KINGSTON, MID-JANUARY, WITH ONLY SIX MORE WEEKS OR SO OF REAL WINTER. REAL WINTER HAS MADE AN APPEARANCE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, BUT THE SPECTRE OF GLOBAL WARMING ALSO HOVERS, MAKING US NERVOUS, LOOKING INWARDS LIKE SPECTATORS AT THE EDGE OF AN ABYSS. ARE WE MOVING TOWARD A TIME IN THE NEAR [...]