As we all look around and agree that the “rapture” a silly old guy in the U.S. had predicted for today … has not happened, it strikes me that predicting the future is a perilous business.
Or maybe just a foolhardy one.
I just read the “Foundation” series for maybe the seventh or eighth time, and as […]

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Stumbled across this on the Vanity Fair site.
If you are following the Libya mess at all, this pretty much is required viewing.
It’s 15 photos of bizarre — are more bizarre — outfits the dictator has worn over the years.
Here is the list.
And what name comes to mind as you’re looking at these?

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It’s Saturday, and the metrics for this blog (and presumably every website on the planet) show that readership goes down on weekends.
What that means is … you guys are surfing the web, and reading me (shhh!), at work.
You are so naughty!
So as not to tax you on a day off, or when you catch up […]

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A handful of people made enormous impacts on American exercise habits in my lifetime. Jim Fixx was one of them, and he dropped dead after a jog at the age of 52. Yes, he had a family history of heart problems, and had been an overweight smoker into his 30s, but still … as I […]

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Got this in one of those “have you seen this?” e-mail chains, and the attribution here is to John Cleese. But I got it via e-mail, so he may not take credit/blame for it.
Cleese, of course, was a central figure in the British comedy troupe Monty Python. And still quite amusing.
This is entitled, “Alerts to […]

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Turns out, I already used the headline “Sandstorm” once before. So our minds do travel in the same ruts, probably even moreso as we get older. The same thoughts at about the same point in the process.
Anyway, at this moment we are having the most alarming weather of our limited meteorological options in this part […]

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Doesn’t it seem as if only about two regions in the world produce guys who can score? South America and Africa. The stray European, sure … but if you want a guy to put a ball in a goal, you want a Brazilian or an Argentine or an African, generally.
I did a piece today for […]

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Weather is boring when it’s not happening to you. Where you are. Right now.
But I have complained often enough about our seven-month summer here in the UAE that I feel as if I owe it to nature to mention that it was just amazingly fine on Friday. It would have been hard to order up […]

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The actor Tony Curtis died today. He was 85.
The man made scores of movies, but I remember him, really, for one: the 1960 epic “Spartacus.”
In it, Curtis played the soft “singer of songs” among Kirk Douglas’s army of slaves. Douglas was Spartacus,  of course,  and Spartacus was an historical figure and leader of a Roman […]

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Stumbled across this today, and I’m glad I did.
I was reading a story on Clint Dempsey in the New York Times and I followed a link to his clever goal for Fulham against Juventus … and off on the side of the youtube home page I noticed a clip that has all 17 of Dempsey’s […]

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