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The zealotry of barefoot running

January 20, 2010 Podiatry

  We were born to run. We had to run to survive. We had to run to hunt. We had to run to get from camp to camp. All that changed eventually (we evolved), then concrete got invented. To protect us from concrete, the running shoe got invented. Now with the obesity epidemic we may [...]

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Pat Robertson and the Haiti Earthquake

January 14, 2010 News

We have the loony left, but the loony right is just as bad.  This fool, the TV evangelist Pat Robertson, has now decided that this weeks earthquake in Haiti which has speculated to have taken 100 000 lives was the result of a pact that the Haiti people made with the devil over 200 years [...]

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Google and China

January 14, 2010 On the Web

Google had an agreement with the Chinese government to filter or censor the search results that Google provide in China. If they did not do that, they would have no business in China. Just why Chinese officials are so paranoid about the rest of the world and what they actually think they are protecting their [...]

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The O’Reilly Factor

December 30, 2009 Politics

What do you think of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News? Me? Much to the dismay of a number of my US friends, I enjoy it! It is good entertainment and despite what the critics think of Bill O’Reilly, the O’Reilly Factor is the number one ranked show on cable news, by a long margin. [...]

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Tiger Woods

December 27, 2009 Sport

Everyone has had something to say on Tiger Wood’s indiscretions and the break down of his marriage. On one hand, it has ruined what appeared to be a happy family and on the other hand he is probably living the fantasy of a very large number of males. Spnosors have dumped him, so it will hurt [...]

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Racially motivated!

December 23, 2009 News

When I hear a news media report and a public outcry about a sentence or comments made by a judge I always err on the side of caution and assume that the judge is in possession of the complete information, so have a rationale for the decision and comments in the media may not have [...]

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