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How To Shave Like Your Grandpa

By Lee • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: Recent Entries
How To Shave Like Your Grandpa

Proper shaving has become a lost art. Today’s average male has no clue about the fine art of the traditional wet shave that their grandfathers and some of their fathers used to take part in. Instead, they’re only accustomed to the cheap and disposable shaving products that companies market. I’m not sure when or why [...]



Yahoo to Microsoft: talk to the hand, we say Nohoo!

By Lee • Feb 9th, 2008 • Category: Current Events, Technology
Yahoo to Microsoft: talk to the hand, we say Nohoo!

The Yahoo Board has mulled it over, and its answer for Microsoft is a simple “no.” The “hostile” $44.6 billion bid was rejected by the board, as largely expected. The question now is, why?



Is term ‘Canadian’ used as racist word?

By Carol Ann • Jan 26th, 2008 • Category: Current Events
Is term ‘Canadian’ used as racist word?

Is “Canadian” the new black? Perhaps – that is if you’re a racist speaking in code.
Recent revelations that the term “Canadian” is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in [...]



Easy on the Eyes

By Lee • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: Current Events
Easy on the Eyes

James Joyce wrote Ulysses, his most popular and critically acclaimed work, during his battle against glaucoma. The year was 1922, and Joyce received the cutting-edge treatment of the time: leeching. Alas, the little bloodsuckers failed to cure his condition. So his doctors decided to go the surgical route, which, in the early part of the [...]



Marines Size Up New Fitness Test

By Lee • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Military
Marines Size Up New Fitness Test

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marines from Headquarters Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, tested multiple events from the Marine Corps’ new Combat Fitness Test, Jan. 11, at the CLR-27 Regimental Physical Training field here.
The Marines tested three events scheduled to be implemented into the CFT during summer 2008. [...]