This just in from USA Today:
Study: More fast food means added weight
You may want to sit down for this one. According to the article:
People who eat several fast-food meals a week are significantly heavier than those who don’t eat fast food very often, according to a new study released Monday.
Amazing. Simply amazing what science can reveal these days. After all these years I guess this means my kindergarten teacher was right after all.
I haven’t done one of these in a while so I figured I’d join several together.
5ive things that rock:
5. Having my own Wiki to write about whatever I please
4. Scrubs starts back this week
3. NPR
2. Friends that let me borrow their truck while mine is in the shop
1. Watching candles burn in our new fireplace while my wife and I sit on the couch talking about what color to paint each room of the house
5ive things that suck:
5. The Iraq war
4. Amy and now Neal on The Biggest Loser
3. The Office is only 30 minutes long this week
2. Having my truck in the shop
1. AT&T Internet/DSL service
5ive songs I wish I’d written:
5. Almighty – Wayne Watson
4. One of These Mornings – Moby
3. Everything Glorious – David Crowder
2. Walk On – U2
1. Grace – U2
5ive TV shows I’d love to guest star on:
5. My Name is Earl
4. The Simpsons
3. The West Wing (might be hard since its no longer on TV)
2. Scrubs
1. The Office
5ive things I’d like to do this weekend:
5. Maybe look for a new truck
4. Frisbee Golf
3. Sleep in
2. BBQ with friends
1. Geocache somewhere new
5ive people I’m tagging to follow up with their own version of this list…
After serving as a journalist in Iraq on 21 different trips, what do you think you would have to say and report?
Tom Bullock reports:
My last view of Baghdad will be of the city by air. I will leave frustrated at that death of that golden era of pizza parlors and barber shops; frustrated with Iraqi’s I’ve talked to who proudly say “we are all brothers,” then take up arms against each other; frustrated with American military and civilian officials who stand up and say everything in Iraq is working, then when they leave write books about how everything in Iraq has failed and its not their fault.
And I’m pained by the number of people I’ve personally known who’ve been killed here: journalists, Iraqis and American soldiers.
This is a must listen. Take a few minutes and listen to what Bullock reports.
Recently announced presidential candidate, and host of The Colbert Report, Steven Colbert, appeared on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” this weekend.
His segment of the show starts at 17:56 into the show.
Colbert is running as a Republican and Democrat in South Carolina only.
As always, good stuff.
Colbert says he was “genetically engineered for The Daily Show” and he owned his own suit so he was well fitted for the job.
Baby Jessica, aka Jessica McClure, is now 21 years old and raising her son with husband Daniel Morales in Midland.
From the DMN:
There was no fanfare here Tuesday to mark the day in 1987 when 18-month-old Jessica McClure was lifted to safety after falling into the open backyard well.
The young wife and mother is living quietly in this West Texas oil patch city.
“Jessica’s just been a wonderful, wonderful mother,” said her father, Chip McClure. “That’s always been Jessica’s dream, to be a stay-at-home mom.”
In 3 1/2 years, however, her quiet existence might change when all the tributes that were sent to her while the nation waited anxiously for her rescue matures into a payment of $1 million or more.
Many of the sympathetic strangers worldwide who remained glued to television coverage until Jessica was freed from 22 feet below the ground showered the family with teddy bears, homemade gifts, cards and cash.
The cash sits in a trust fund waiting for the 21-year-old to turn 25.
20 years doesn’t seem like that long of a time – but it does make me feel old.
If you haven’t subscribed to the SoundCorps podcast you’re really missing out.
The stories are so personal and touching and I’m sure they probably mean even more to the family members who get to do the interviews and hear the stories.
This week’s podcast is another great one:
During World War II, the U-S military ran prisoner-of-war camps across the country. Jean Thackeray grew up near one of these camps. She came to StoryCorps to tell her daughter-in-law, Susan, about a POW who came to work on her father’s farm.