For a good chuckle, check out the 12 worst fitness inventions of all time, featuring such classics as The Dumbbell Cane, Prostate-Gland Warmer, and The Twister (“We’re stunned that a man named Chubby could even have inadvertently spawned an exercise craze”).
Bad news for Gulf Arabs, with a top cardiologist warning that they risk heart attacks in the Olympics. And that’s not even competing. A top cardiologist has warned television viewers in the United Arab Emirates to try to stay calm during the Olympics because they were particularly vulnerable to suffering heart attacks while watching sports. [...]
The more astute of my readers may have noticed the Twitter widget on my sidebar for the past week. Yes, I officially became a twit last week. Although I have clearly not discovered the potential of Twitter, I anticipate developing some Twitter mojo over time. It is for this reason that I encourage anyone interested [...]
Terrorists who participated in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre, led by Palestinian Arab heroine Dalal Mughrabi, were interviewed on Al-Manar TV: Fatah terrorist Hussein Fayadh: We spent two days in the dinghy, with all the [bad] weather. Before that, we spent two days aboard the ship. For four day, we didn’t eat, drink, or sleep. [...]
