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Monday, January 2, 2012
Some predictions for 2012…
Here are my predictions for things that I think might happen this year:
Fidel Castro will pass away.
Mitt Romney will be the GOP presidential candidate.
At least one country in the Euro zone will stop using the Euro and revert back to their former currency.
Kentucky will win the NCAA basketball championship.
The Pope will pass away. (“Is there a heaven? I’d like to think so…”)
The Miami Heat will win the NBA championship.
The Chicago Cubs will continue their long history of failure.
More weird weather events. Ohio earthquakes. A volcanic eruption somewhere. Many windstorms and tornadoes. A plague of locusts (OK, I’m kidding about that one).
Barack Obama will be elected to a second term.
North Korea, Iran, and Iraq will be causing more worries (as usual).
The Mayan calendar will turn out to be incomplete…
(“In every dream home a heartache…”)
I’ll read a lot of good books and write reviews about them.
Check back at the end of the year and see how many of these predictions have panned out.
(with apologies to Roxy Music for borrowing some of their lyrics to “In every dream home a heartache…”)
Vick Mickunas
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TweetThe unhealthiest cookbooks of 2011
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is taking some heat for his recent cookbook,” Jamie Oliver’s Meals in Minutes.” According to an article in the New York Daily News it has been “criticized namely for its Meatball Sandwich recipe, which contains more fat than a Big Mac and more than double the calories, cholesterol, sodium and saturated fat, said the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
The recipe calls for ground beef, pancetta, Jarlsberg cheese and ciabatta loaves.
It’s a harsh blow for the British chef and TV personality, who has been at the forefront of several aggressive campaigns and public policy movements pushing families to eat healthier meals, including series like Jamie’s School Dinners in the UK and Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution in the US.”
Oliver isn’t the only celebrity cook getting grilled for unhealthy recipes. According to the article, Paula Deen seems to have caused some offense as well…
To read the article click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetFree market capitalism and Karl Marx
The on-line bookseller Abe Books recently published their list of the most expensive books sold through their site during 2011. It is quite an interesting and esoteric list. Here are their two most expensive book sales from last year:
“Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Oekonomie by Karl Marx - $51, 739 The first edition (in three volumes) with the first published in 1867 by Otto Meissner.”
and
“To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee - $25,000 First edition of Lee’s first and only, Pulitzer Prize-winning, novel; signed “with best wishes Harper Lee.”
To read the rest of their top ten click HERE:
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