A new study (a couple of them, actually) finds that walking can block dementia in the elderly. The article also mentions that Europeans in their 70s, 80s, and 90s had a 65% lower mortality risk if they ate a "Mediterranean" diet, exercised moderately (again with the walking), didn't smoke, and drink alcohol moderately. That doesn't sound so bad, does it?
Here's a "translation" of John Kerry's positions on Iraq from Slate. A sample: "Bush says Kerry habitually contradicts himself. Kerry's answer is that Bush habitually contradicts the facts. In his speech, Kerry cites Bush's claims about Iraq's WMD (contradicted by Bush's chief inspector), its links to al-Qaida (contradicted by the 9/11 commission), the trustworthiness of Ahmad Chalabi (contradicted by recent intelligence), and a host of postwar conditions—Iraqis' embrace of their liberators; the adequacy of the current number of troops; the size and readiness of postwar Iraqi security forces, and the trend of postwar fighting—all of which are contradicted by data and independent reporting on the ground."
A column in the Miami Herald which warns that "Any day on the calendar could be the next 9/11. Anyone who thinks that impossible or even unlikely because the president has ''taken the fight to the terrorists' is risking a nasty shock."
The RNC/GOP mailer that's been making the rounds in the South. The design is just about as ugly as the message.
I rarely watch television and I don't live in a swing state, so I don't get to see a lot of campaign ads. This may make up for it.
Zogby International says that the presidential race is a dead heat (which may make 2000 look like a walk in the park), Americans are overwhelmingly unhappy about outsourcing jobs overseas, and Muslims are flocking to back Kerry.
And that's the way it is.
