Brush your teeth: It’s good for your heart

I am obsessed about my dental hygiene. Add another reason. Heartwire: London, UK – Individuals who do not brush their teeth twice a day have an increased risk of heart disease, a new study shows. The study was published online May 27, 2010 in BMJ; the corresponding author is Prof Richard Watt (University College London, [...]

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Memorial Day

When I was a small child attending school in Honolulu, we had a tradition that each school child would make one plumeria lei, just the right length, and it, along with thousands of other leis made by thousands of other school children, would be placed on one of thousands of grave markers in Punchbowl, the National Cemetery of [...]

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Off to the warm

It’s been a busy day… On my way to work I noticed that the Highway Patrol was out in force this morning, and I thought to myself, I better keep an eye on my speed. It would really suck to get a ticket on my birthday. And my mind slipped quickly to that unhappy place [...]

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“A versatile killer”

WaPo: In nature, oil is a versatile killer. It smothers the tiny animals that make up a coral reef. It suffocates blades of marsh grass, cutting them off from air and sunlight. It clumps up a bird’s feathers, leaving it unable to fly. Then, trying to remove the oil, birds swallow it. For now, scientists [...]

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Holding my breath

Today’s the day. Or, maybe not. This will be the first stab at shutting down the well since the April 20 blowout and fire that killed 11 workers on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. BP chief executive Tony Hayward told CNN Wednesday morning that the company is still collecting data to determine whether to proceed [...]

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Teaspoons and Tidal Waves

In between arranging stuff for our upcoming vacay, work (I was there from 7am-6pm yesterday), and other obligations, I’ve barely had the energy to keep up with the world. But I scan the headlines, I read, I sigh . . . and I think, I need to blog on that.  And yet, I keep coming back [...]

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Ain’t it the truth?

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Monday Meanderings

Historiann: The jaw-dropping stupidity of opinion journalism today  Yes, Arthur:  even this Marxist feminist American historian–or anyone else with a copy of the U.S. Constitution and The Federalist Papers–can tell you that this is the original kulturkampf in these United States.  Brooks then goes back to quote Thomas Jefferson in 1801 to “prove” that the U.S. has [...]

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Breaking my own rule

That would be the one about never linking to DailyKos. Until now. Go. Read. (H/T Digby)

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Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Part II

Part I here. Aside from my little rant at the end of this post about Rand Paul the other day and a few other mentions here and there, the Tea Party hasn’t gotten much attention on this blog.  Why? Because I’ve been surrounded by this type of crazy-ass conservative in Nevada for quite some time.  Note, [...]

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