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“There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.” – Alex Jones How bad was Alex Jones’s week in court? It was bad. He was caught lying under oath about his previous lies …
In February of 1972 when I ran 2:25:35 [for third] at the Trail’s End Marathon in Seaside, Oregon, I passed Gerry Lindgren with 2.5 miles to go. I said, “Hang tough” and got a “Hi” in return. Now, beating Gerry was cool, but I’m savvy enough to know that beating Gerry Lindgren [fifth in 2:27:47]…
“I do not recommend that any athlete copy the training procedure of another… Just as no two athletes have identical form, so no two athletes need have the same training program. Literally as well as figuratively, there is more than one road to Rome.” Like to claim I invented running outdoors the winter of ’72….
Winning the bid to host the most important international running event in the world and being listed among some of the best host cities in the world, speaks volumes to the vision of the Board of County Commissioners and our team who continue to dream big. – Director of Tourism, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. Still…
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. – Konrad Lorenz Ragnar Brutha Gonzo turns four years old today. That’s twenty-eight in dog years. Practically a career. All dog. He will chase a cat, he will dig a hole in your yard. One hole, to…
“He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he…
“In 1837, a racist mob in Alton, Illinois broke into the offices of an abolitionist newspaper and killed its editor, Elijah Lovejoy. [President Abraham] Lincoln wrote a speech in which he said that no transatlantic military giant could ever crush us as a nation, even with all of the fortunes in the world. “But if…
“After 187 minutes wrestling with a 300-pound two-year-old, the White House staff was drained.” – Anonymous White House staffer Brain fog is no joking matter. So, anyway, imagine we squeeze into something slinky, climb aboard stiletto heels, wrap ourselves in a feather boa and don a bright wig like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Here is a synopsis…
Feel like I just climbed a mountain and dodged a bullet at the same time. – Barker Ajax So, anyway, can’t explain why I was reading an eight-year-old New Yorker. Still pretty sick. But dealable after a week or so. No worse than going cold turkey on a good addiction, like weed or speed. I…
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife. – Malcolm X Clarence Thomas roots his…