FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 2 #1 HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND NEWSBITS. There are medicines for every disease known and unknown being advertised on television these days and one wonders if the FDA is paying any attention. Most of the wonder drugs we allegedly need to be taking have side effects worse than the disease we’re hoping to cure. VO: Are you suffering from Normalitis? Many Americans are and the sad thing is, they don’t even know it. If you ever feel happy or sad, melancholy or ebullient; if you’ve ever been hungry or full, or sort of a little peckish and then kind of uninterested in food; if you’ve …
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Written by Steve Martin, Narrated by Campbell Scott -an audio book review- Jo Anna Perrin I have always been a Steve Martin fan, but like many, a Steve Martin Hollywood fan. I have to admit, I have a problem with the ease that celebrities seem to have, deservedly or not, in obtaining publishing contracts. Consequently it has taken me a while to dip my ambivalent toe into the Steve Martin as author category, regardless of how endearing I might find Steve Martin, the public icon. So it was with reservations that I picked up Martin’s An Object of Beauty as read by Campbell Scott. And now, you might ask? Well, …
FOR THE HELL OF IT #3 12/31/10 The last day of the year! The third blog of the year! Fortunately, like you, I can contain my excitement. It’s been pointed out to me that I missed some significant stories in my last blog so I shall return to the subject of peering at some of the stories that caught our attention in 2010. Understand that not all the musings here will be about the major stories – just the ones I feel like chatting about. So here goes. 1. Airport Security. Underwear bombs. Shoe bombs. Breast milk container bombs… We sure have a lot of terrorist nutters looking for inventive …
FOR THE HELL OF IT by Johnny Heller No.2; 12/24/2010 As we head to the end of another year (a year that stood out only because no other year has ever been named 2010 in my lifetime) I think it important that we take a look back and see just what we managed to live through. So without further ado here, in no particular order, is my take on some of the significant happenings of the past year. The end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the US Military has to be considered a top story regardless of your personal take on homosexuals, the military or on news stories. No …
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