Pummeled by Sheets of Rain

I’ve been waiting for this day since warm(er) weather arrived in Minneapolis a few weeks ago.
This morning at dawn the skies were cloudy and the air a bit heavy with humidity. I ran my normal 5.5 mile route and needed a lot of water to replenish my system at the end of the run. [...]

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Day 7 of 30 Days – Save the Polar Bears

It’s official. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior has placed the polar bear on the list of threatened species list under the Endangered Species Act. Apparently, global warming (as previously discovered by Al Gore) has created a massive loss of sea ice, which has and will continue to threaten current polar bear habitat.  This loss [...]

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Day 6 of 30 Days – Moore’s Law

Back in 1965, the year I was born, a computer geek named Gordon Moore predicted a trend that soon became fact. He said then (and remember, this was more than 40 years ago) that the information and processing speed of computer chips would double approximately every two years. This prognosticator and co-founder of Intel was [...]

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Day 5 of 30 Days – R. Kelly

Is there any reason why this guy (who, years ago, married a 15-year-old whose parents then had to have the marriage annulled) gets the courtesy of a court trial to resolve a case first brought against him more than five years ago? He allegedly made a video of himself engaging in sex acts with another [...]

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Day 4 of 30 Days – Curing Cancer

It’s the “c” word: Cancer.
With the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Mother’s Day Race for the Cure at the Mall of America, coupled with other fine foundations like Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong organization, visibility and awareness about cancer and the continuing need for ALL kinds of cancer research is at an all-time high. Yet cures seem to [...]

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Day 3 of 30 Days – Respect

Somewhere in a small town in Minnesota, recently, three eight-grade nose pickers decided it’s be fun to piss off their teacher by staying seated during the Pledge of Allegiance. You see, even in junior high schools around the country, kids stand once a week and recite the Pledge. They don’t HAVE to say the words, [...]

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Day 2 of 30 Days – Polygamy? Give Me a Break!

There’s so much crazy going on that I struggled with what to choose to publish on this, Day 2 of my “30 Days of Crazy.” So let’s get after the issue of a certain faith that feels it’s cool to have multiple wives, and in many cases, marry teenagers who then themselves have babies before [...]

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Day 1 of 30 Days – The Obesity Epidemic

True or false: A recent National Institutes of Health study estimated the annual medical spending due to obesity (BMI >25) in the United States to be as much as $92.6 billion in 2002 dollars – or roughly 9.1 percent of total U.S. health care expenditures.
Scary isn’t it?
So what are we doing about obesity? Not everyone [...]

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Making a Little Sense Out of Crazy – “30 Days Project”

As the Obama/Clinton chest thumping drags on (and on, and on), and the world continues to implode with natural disasters (i.e., Myanmar, at which last I read up to 100,000 could be dead or homeless), and man-made disasters (aka the mortgage crisis and the economy…stupid), I’m taking it upon myself to try to make a [...]

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Birthday Log

5:50 a.m.: Wake up to the alarm – today I’m 43
5:55 a.m.: Make coffee
5:58 a.m.: Check voice mail. Listen to birthday greeting, complete with “Happy Birthday” song, from my best friend in the world
6 a.m.: Iron shirt for work
6:10 a.m.: Get coffee, shower, shave and all that stuff
6:30 a.m.: Dress for work – it’s a [...]

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