All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe

Since quitting cigarettes 2 weeks ago yesterday, I am noticing profound improvements in lung function, olfactory capabilities, and extra money in my pockets.
The other day I rode my exercise bicycle for 40 minutes at an average speed of 18 miles an hour. My heart rate did not go over 100 the entire time.
Yesterday I rode [...]

A Dearth of Blogging

I haven’t written much lately, mostly because I have been readjusting to life as a non-smoker. Not ex-smoker. See, I have not been without nicotine since high school-  I’m 50 now- so most of my life I have been a smoker. I now wish that I had not, and wonder what my life might have [...]

Quit Smoking Now

Tomorrow will be seven days since my last cigarette. I have been able to stop fairly easily, with no cravings or mood swings or irritability. And I was a daily smoker- a pack a day or better- since 1974.
Richard Nixon was President when I started smoking. My first pack of Kools cost 50¢ from a [...]

Out West

Senator Ted Kennedy To Be Knighted

Some honors have been so diluted as to be meaningless. The Hill reports:
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) will be awarded an honorary knighthood, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to announce during his speech to both houses of Congress on Wednesday.
Kennedy, who is suffering from a malignant brain tumor, is receiving the honor because of his [...]

The destruction of the US economy continues apace

From the Wall Street Journal:
The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy. Health-care stocks have dived on fears of new government mandates and price controls. Private lenders to students have been told [...]

What are you some kinda Einstein or somethin’?

Rookie Politician’s Assault On US Economy Continues

Where’s the bottom?
The amateur politician currently holding the office of President intends to impose a carbon cap and trade scheme that in his own words would make electricity prices rise, hurting every American who flips a light switch:
“Under my plan, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
But back to cap and trade, the costs of which [...]