Your commute

Study: Driving Longer Means Larger Waists

This story is one of many that really help to hammer home the message that your employment has a tremendous impact upon your quality of life and not just from a financial perspective.

It impacts your mental and physical health in dramatic fashion. Just think, if you hate your job not only does it make you crazy but now we see that in addition to the stress if you are commuting long distances it can make you fat. How about a Big Mac, or do you want to be a dope.

Not very surprising to read this, but it does assist in reminding us that when we evaluate potential employment we should consider quite seriously things like the commute as well as money/benefits/advancement.

Islam and the Modern World

There a ton of experts who have written about this, but I happen to like Daniel Pipes and Bernard Lewis. I thought that these two pieces by Lewis were interesting

The Roots of Muslim Rage

And

What Went Wrong

Special thanks go out to Dallas for passing this story along:

Bernard Lewis

Death is indiscriminate

There's a reason I'm alive - I just don't know what it is

I thought that the article was very interesting for a multitude of reasons. Bombs and bullets do not discriminate. If you get in the way you will be hurt. It is a tragic part of war.

And tied into that tragedy is the reality is that sometimes the only way to stop bloodshed is with more bloodshed. The absurdity is just unreal. Do we ever grow up?


And then speaking of absurd

Man Commits Suicide After Sex with Hen

How does this happen, it is foul to shtup a fowl. How do you look at the bird and think "I have got to have it..." I just don't understand it at all.

Perspective

Life is not always a bowl of cherries, but I'd lay odds that most people that have their own Blog have a better life than they realize. Does that mean that they do not have problems? No, they most certainly do.

But if you can take a deep breath and maintain some perspective you might find that things are pretty good. You could be the one out of the 75.

Report: 1 of Every 75 U.S. Men in Prison

In reference to an earlier comment about politics and leaders I came across this story today. Which just gives more support to my position about politicians just being people. This of course does not do much to mitigate my displeasure at coming across things like this, but it is all perspective now isn't it.

Fortuneteller Told Peru's Fujimori to Flee-Video

Have you ever fallen in love with someone you don't know?

Does this happen to people or is it just something that you see in the movies. They say that all movies and sitcoms are based upon real life. Does that mean that aliens are coming to take over. Will they say "nanoo-nanoo" and fly in eggs.

Whatever does it mean?

Bad movies

I just lost 2 hours of my life to "The Hulk." It was a horrible movie. Special effects were just so-so and the plot was weak. Thankfully it was on Starz so I cannot say that I wasted tons of dollars on it.

Although I did enjoy it more than "As Good as it Gets" which just got worse and worse. Bleah!

Group Unearths Part of Ancient University

What do you want to bet they found gum stuck beneath the desks.

Group Unearths Part of Ancient University

When I was younger I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I spent the Summer of '85 in Israel. During my time there I purchased a leather bullwhip that I found in the Shuk in Jerusalem. It was probably my second week there. We entered through Jaffa gate and hadn't gone too far when I found it.

I only managed to smack myself with it twice before I got the hang of it. Just slightly embarrassing to whip yourself, but we'll save that for a later date. Hard to believe that it is almost 20 years since this grand adventure.

And speaking of embarrassing incidents

Researcher Dies After Accidental Ebola Jab

Can you imagine the eulogy: If he hadn't been such a prick....