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Ha! From Rasmussen – But also, in a case of true blind faith, 19% say Congress can make things better … This level of skepticism is shared by a majority of just about every partisan and demographic group, including 53% of Democrats whose party currently controls both houses of Congress The only exception is the nation's…

I posted about the Vanity Fair piece here Vanity Fair gives Palin the once over. I still haven't read the full essay, but Imus, who doesn't like Palin, did. On the radio Tuesday he said it was a hatchet job. I guess this is further evidence. Writer Michael Joseph Gross acknowledged to the Associated Press that…

Hawking is the famous British scientist who has been in a wheelchair for decades with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Here he is in 2006. Considering his disability, he has lead an amazing and creative life. He had a 30 + year career at Cambridge, and he just retired . Back in 1988 he wrote a very popular book on…

Men have more regrets about having fewer children. A little surprising? Male scientists who said their careers kept them from having more children regretted their sparsely populated households more than their female counterparts.

Just got homae a few minutes ago from an overnight hike in the A.T. My friend Maria was a last minute scratch, so it was a threesome. Brigid drove us to the top of Bear Mountain yesterday and Jeanne Marie’s husband Damian picked us up at 3 o’clock today on Arden Valley Road, near Tiorati…

You may have heard of the protest, set off by the owner of the building refusing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s birthday by lightingthe building in blue and white. It’s quite sandard for groups and businesses to apply to the building to use a particular lighting arrangement at the top, to celebrate…

Let's here it for Thomas! WEST SAYVILLE, N.Y. — Without doubt, many more people line the sidewalks to see the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manhattan than to watch the St. Mary Malankara Indian Orthodox Church’s annual Assumption Day Parade, which began here on Sunday with the usual blowing of the kumbu horn and the…

The Louisville native has reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church after being away from it for more than 80 years. In the end, O'Bryan reconciled with the church because of the actions of a priest — the same reason he said he left in the first place. O'Bryan, now 89 and living in northern California,…

Yesterday I had a quick solo afternoon walk over Bear Mountain Bridge and into the Bear Mountain State Park, The Appalachian Trail literally goes through the picnic area of the Park, before turning up to the west and over Bear Mountain. If some of this seems familiar, well this was last November Walkin’ the Bear…

Yesterday I had my six month check-up at Sloan Kettering with Dr. Zelenetz. I didn't have a CAT scan, since I only have one/yr. now. Had no issues – blood work was fine, BP 111/68 and I weighed 164.7 lbs with my pants on.  That's up from the 151 I weighed when I left Sloan in January, '06 after…