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We would be remiss without acknowledging the passing of Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, last Tuesday, January 8, of liver cancer.
    Junk food made the news Sunday, January 13, when President George W Bush choked on a pretzel.  The commander in chief lost consciousness briefly, falling to the floor and injuring his face.  Tom Ridge, director of homeland security, confirms a background check on the pretzel is now underway.

“We’re number three!  We’re number three!”
    Men’s Fitness magazine has released their list of the top 25 “fattest cities”, with Detroit coming in third place.  As described by ABC News “The survey looks at 16 different categories, such as how well city residents fare in nutrition, exercise and sports participation, and to what extent they embrace poor health choices, such as smoking, drinking and excessive TV watching.”  The top twenty-five cities are:

Happy Birthday to me.  Looks like an amazingly busy week coming up too—almost enough to rival May.  But details will have to wait for later.
    I’m a bit bemused by CNN’s report on the FBI’s profile of the “anthrax terrorist”.  The handwriting of the threatening letters suggests the culprit is a loner, a male, and carries a grudge.  Gee, thank you.  That certainly narrows that down, and I would guess the guilty party is as good as captured.
    Actually, come to think of it, the above description pretty much matches me.  So it might be best that I’ll be out of town for a while!

Not much to add right now, since I’m once again glued to the TV, the radio, and the news sites.  Here are a few important links I’d like to share.  Please visit, please donate.

And one not so important link:

And now we are at war.  I don’t want this front page to turn political or to antagonize anyone if my views do not match yours, so the diatribe I began to write has instead been moved over to my Message Board.  Like most people I am still fixated on the events of last week; I can’t get them out of my mind.  The Internet has been a great resource, providing not only news but allowing for weblogs and photos of first-hand experience.  Here are a few of the most valuable: