This morning, Today ran a segment out of the UK about an 8-year-old who weighs nearly 200 pounds. His parents feed him a snack every 20 minutes. Apparently there’s talk of making these kinds of situations legally punishable as a form of child abuse.
Then, Today teased a segment on women who were anorexic in their [...]
Filed under: Today Show Outrage on February 28th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
For some inexplicable reason, I keep watching the Today Show, despite the fact that it puts my panties in a bunch nearly every day. But I realized this might be the perfect outlet for my daily outrage over the “news” on Today.
Occasionally, I’ll turn on CNN out of frustration, but the last time I did [...]
Filed under: Today Show Outrage on February 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I felt I needed another cup of coffee for my Oscars hangover this morning after I read on the BBC that (supposedly) director James Cameron had found the tomb of Jesus.
Just couldn’t let Scorsese have his day in the sun, could he?
Jesus can sell a movie; Mel Gibson proved that. (So can Moses; Charlton Heston [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 26th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today we had good reminders of the third and fourth rules of cross-country skiing.
The third rule is temperature — you want it juuuuust right. If it’s too warm, you’ll slog along. Today, the forecast called for temps in the 20s (fine) with wind chills of -15F (not fine).
We are generally not wussies. A few weeks [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
The first rule of cross-country skiing is fitness — have it. If your heart is opposed to beating 180 times in one minute, then Nordic skiing might not be for you.
Every time we’ve gone to Nordic centers, with their seemingly gentle, rolling grounds that lack the fight-or-flight slopes the chair lifts climb at resorts, we [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This quiz on Beliefnet
is slightly less misguided than some of the flat-out gaffes I’ve seen about tantra in the popular media. But it’s another example of grabbing at the extremes of religion and eroticizing Eastern thought in a way that doesn’t really say anything about the core of Hinduism or Buddhism.
I don’t mean to single [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
People like to talk about what they’re going to give up for Lent. Some give up a certain food. Or TV. Or the mall.
I’d like to give up my ego.
My ego is what lends heavy importance to all of these things. I wouldn’t be tempted to buy things like new shoes if I took my [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My editor at the Missourian would occasionally have an Post-It stuck somewhere in her office (somewhere could include her shirt) asking the timeless question:
WWQLD?
That is, What Would Queen Latifah Do?
I happen to like Queen Latifah. I even watched that movie where she thinks she only has a few weeks to live. Of course, I was [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 15th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Carolina to
Wisconsin, eh? Gather a
sweater, scarf and your courage.
Filed under: Haiku on February 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of my friends — I won’t name her here — confessed to watching waaaaay too much of the Anna Nicole coverage last week. A report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism shows just how easy it was to sit back and be a media consumer of the Anna Nicole circus and the diaper-wearing [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 14th, 2007 | 2 Comments »