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Rub your burger to block cancer

As long as you rub it with rosemary or rosemary extract, that is. To Block The Carcinogens, Add A Touch Of Rosemary When Grilling Meats ScienceDaily (May 24, 2008) — Rosemary, a member of the mint family and a popular seasoning on its own, also has benefits as a cancer prevention agent. Apply it to [...]

For the Hammer Man

Ben has been on a bit of a G.K. Chesterton binge of late, so this is for him, via The Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of the novelist and essayist G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, (books by this author) born in London, England (1874). He’s remembered today for his detective novels about the bumbling, crime-solving priest [...]

Bill Clinton seeing vast left-wing conspiracy?

Bill Clinton: ‘Coverup’ hiding Hillary Clinton’s chances bookmark to:

For Memorial Day

Here’s something I wrote and posted a couple of years ago, but it’s an appropriate time to re-run it. June 6th I’ve felt like this before. The nausea, simultaneously sweating and shivering, knowing that something was about to happen and it wouldn’t be good. Then it was being crammed into the landing craft, Pressing toward [...]

News Flash

New photographic evidence of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s chickens coming home to roost: HT: KingDavid (now at his new blogging address). bookmark to:

Keegan’s Thursday night

Uncle Ben has finished his gruesome semester, the Mall Diva has the WHOLE weekend off of work, and my brain could stand to dwell on more trivial matters for at least one night so you can expect the three of us at Keegan’s for the Thursday Night Pub Quiz. Rumor is that the patio is [...]

Signs of the apocalypse

Q: What do these three events have in common: Golf on April 28. Golf on May 13. Softball on May 19. A: At each event I wore three layers of clothing and gloves that had nothing to do with the sport at hand — and I still froze. Also, this past weekend I went into [...]

Prickly City has a point

The Prickly City strip has been running in my local paper while Gary Trudeau is on vacation. I hope it “sticks” around after he returns! bookmark to:

55 mpg and 120 mph top speed

OK, this is more of a Jroosh post even though he’s into movies more than automobiles lately, but I have too much integrity to claim to be a real motorhead. Nevertheless, these new VWs will catch your eye. And they’re not electric – they’re turbo-diesel. One thing you can’t question is the unbeatable fuel economy [...]

Be there, be square

I found the link to Square America, described as “A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography”, while browsing commenter Charlie’s blog, Virile Lit: I’ve been loving Square America for some time now and want to urge you to check it out. It’s a web site wherein the curator chronicles the history of the U.S. [...]

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