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The 5 Most Ridiculously Over-Hyped Health Scares of All Time. These stories, along with the Cold War, are why my youth was so fatalistic.
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The credit crisis is moving beyond subprime mortgages. Next on the agenda: home equity loans.
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Seven Mysterious Disappearances. Read what we know happened, plus the wild speculations of what might have happened to these people who were never seen again.
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A look at some of the problems with a national service program. It may be a way to pay for college, but it may be more discriminatory than useful.
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How dead is dead enough? Modern medical advances have blurred the line between life and death, so the criteria for defining death is somewhat arbitrary.
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A cat is delighted to find he can walk on water! But the ice makes it hard to reach the fish.
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Ganvie, Benin: The Venice Of Africa. The town on the lake was settled to protect residents from slavery, as local religious tradition forbade attacking anyone on the water.
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Most of us carry tunes around in our heads at least part of the time. What’s your default song?
It changes with my mood. But most times when I’m bored or trying to ignore the “blah,blah, blah” of life my default song is The Banana Splits theme song…….”TRA LA LA, LA LA LA LA…
ONE BANANA, 2 BANANA, 3 BANANA 4….”
It will haunt you!
Also when I get a migraine there is always a loop that plays over and over and over…usually an “oldie”. Maybe that’s why I have the migraine!
posted by Marci on 3-28-2008 at 9:48 am
For me it’s almost always the cavalry charge from Rossini’s “William Tell Overture,” also known as the theme from the “Lone Ranger.”
And I usually sing appropriate lyrics to myself depending on what I’m doing:
“Feed the dog, feed the dog, feed the dog, dog, dog!”
“Drive the car, drive the car, drive the car, car, car!”
“Take a dump, take a dump, take a dump, dump, dump! Take a dump, take a dump, dump, dump!
Well, you get the idea…
posted by Ciao Bambina on 3-28-2008 at 11:47 am
Great post on Mysterios Dissapearances.
Cecilia Ahern, the auther of the book “P.S. I Love You”, just wrote a book called “There’s No Place Like Here” about a Private Investigator who herself goes missing and finds herself in a magical place where all things missing go. After locating all of her lost socks and all of the lost people she has made a career out of finding, she too is stuck trying to find her way back home.
I am only about half way through, but so far it is a great read.
posted by bethany on 3-28-2008 at 12:26 pm