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“With decades of experience, if running, triathlons or endurance is your game, Lee is your go-to. He is also well equipped to help you get started on any fitness program, with special consideration to injury prevention and longevity.” – LIV Fitness Good to hear from you, Jack. I am well and running an hour every…
Must admit I was a big fan of Lance. Stayed true to Alberto until I don’t want to talk about it. Still think the Tainted Burrito Incident should be a Lifetime movie. I come from an era, well, my idea of performance-enhancing drugs was pasta carbonara and Foster’s Lager. No telling how fast I might’ve…
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their…
Hey, the same guy who thought that the 9/11 attack was a 7-Eleven attack. [Donald]’s talkin’ about dementia? All I can say to the American people is watch me, is see what I’ve done, is see what I’m gonna do. Look at me. Compare our physical and mental acuity. I’m happy to have that comparison….
Two deaths from the storm, Florida officials said, were men in their 70s who shot themselves after seeing the destruction to their property. Steve Mitchell moved around in the dark. The 80-year-old sipped vodka from a paper cup inside apartment 206 at the Venetian Bayview condominiums on Friday night, only the light of a phone…
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. – Friedrich Nietzsche What a Conservative Therapist Thinks About Politics and Mental Health By Meghan Daum. Ms. Daum is a podcast host and a writer. October 4, 2022. Partisanship and polarization are everywhere in America these days, from classrooms to board rooms. Americans…
“Basically, everything I said as a zealot in 1970 is now commonplace.” When Donna Scaff shared the news, I was about to take a nap. Couldn’t sleep. I could think about nothing else, all the fun and laughter every single time the two Jacks got together. Funny I don’t remember meeting Dr. Scaff. Must’ve been because…
“Words are the cars that drive things up.” I am sitting directly across the room from Sharon Doubiago. Blonde. Out the window rolling I can see sparkling Pacific Ocean waves. Blue. I sing a silent secret prayer to a giggling God for my eyes. Clear. So, anyway, I was at this event – late late…
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have? — Michael Leunig When the Crazy Prospector…
Was in a department store waiting for my wife and I saw this grizzly-looking old dude giving me the stink eye and before I decided to start a fight, realized I’d seen that guy before. A mirror. Take a moment and ask yourself, why don’t they want us to know our history? Why don’t they want…