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Warm Thanksgiving greetings from the ST blog

Posted by: ST on November 22, 2012 at 10:02 am » 11 Comments

Hey gang! Hope everyone is enjoying your Thanksgiving morning so far. Yours truly woke up with a sore throat – on THANKSGIVING DAY. Sigh. I have been coughing and sneezing this week but it’s been a dry cough and the sneezing hasn’t felt like anything to do with congestion, so I didn’t think too much [...]

 

Is chivalry dead? No, but …

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2009 at 9:50 pm » 28 Comments

… there are times I’d love to jerk a flippin’ knot in some people! I am flat-out worn out tonight. As I noted over the weekend, I was wrapped up in rearranging/reorganizing my home office for a good bit of Saturday and Sunday. It had gotten too cramped and a couple of pieces of storage [...]

 

Shock study: A year of the average man’s life is spent ogling women

Posted by: ST on August 3, 2009 at 10:30 pm » 26 Comments

Via the UK Sun: MEN ogle up to TEN women every day, researchers have revealed. They spend an average of 43 minutes admiring girls – which adds up to A YEAR in a lifetime. The study shows celebs like David Beckham, Barack Obama and Bruce Willis were only doing what comes naturally when they were [...]

 

Yes, ladies and gents – size really does matter

Posted by: ST on June 24, 2009 at 9:42 pm » 12 Comments

And the bigger the better. Oh – did I mention I was talking about flat panel televisions? What did you think I was talking about? I’m in the middle of taking a brief break from the work I brought home with me to brag – sorta – about the fact that I’m finally “getting with [...]

 

Indictment in MySpace teen suicide case

Posted by: ST on May 15, 2008 at 9:51 pm » 3 Comments

Via AP: LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis allegedly helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact Megan Meier, who thought [...]

 

Fruit basket arrangement for a fruitcake

Posted by: ST on February 13, 2008 at 8:30 pm » 5 Comments

This has been one of those weeks where I’ve had a lot of trouble getting to sleep, and you know how you feel when you don’t get enough rest: tired, sluggish, irritable – not at your best. You sure don’t want to get up in the morning. Add to that, the after-effects of suffering from [...]

 

When wanting to be accepted becomes overwhelming

Posted by: ST on November 14, 2007 at 1:00 am » 10 Comments

Tuesday morning, I woke up, got ready for work, and quickly logged online to check my Newsgator feeds before leaving, as I always do, and read this post from Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom, who linked up to commentary by Ace of Spades blogger Jack M. on a disturbing story about a 13 y/o girl [...]

 

The endurance of love in the face of Alzheimer’s disease

Posted by: ST on November 13, 2007 at 8:16 pm » 1 Comment

Many of us learned a lot more about Alzheimer’s through the great President Reagan, after it was announced via a handwritten letter he wrote in 1994, at the age of 83, that he had been diagnosed with the disease. The more we have learned over the years and continue to learn about the disease, whether [...]

 

Big news: Study finds sex ‘always’ on men’s minds

Posted by: ST on October 24, 2006 at 8:50 pm » 17 Comments

Via UPI: NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (UPI) — Researchers at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University say most men are always thinking of sex. A study released Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists found 54 percent of men and 19 percent of women [...]