World leaders shun George W. Bush

What does it mean when people all around are shaking each others' hands but not yours?  I know that this video is widely available (I saw it on Huffpo), but it is a potent non-verbal message that bears on the foreign policy damage done by President Bush. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y_ncOVlDw&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/[/youtube]

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94 is the new 50? Jack Lalanne is still working out

I remember watching a physical fitness workout expert named Jack Lalanne when I was about 6 years old (this was back in 1962).  I stumbled across LaLanne's name today and wondered whether he was still alive.  Indeed he is.  Now 94, Lalanne has lived long enough to transform his media…

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The enemy of my enemy

I see lots of upside to Al-Qaeda's use of a racial slur to demean President-elect Barack Obama.  Perhaps these racial slurs will wake up some of those rabid Palinites who thought that Barack Obama was doing the bidding of Al-Qaeda all along. Consider, also, that many conservatives are xenophobically patriotic.  …

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