Category Archives: Health

Unwashing of Hands

Washing Of Hands

Baseball season is in full swing. The Yankees and Mets are disappointing their fans and the Red Sox are going nowhere, but these teams’ mediocrity will not interfere with baseball’s greatest tradition of men never washing their hands after going to the toilets. A 2008 survey conducted at the Atlanta Braves stadium revealed that while [...]

Reckless # 3. That’s Me

I’ve changed to position # 1. It’s a coming of age thing, although it took me three attempts to get the spindle in the right sockets.

No Rest For The Wicked

Upon my return from Thailand in April of 2008 my finances were in ruins. My savings had been wiped out an individual sub-prime melt-down minus the many zeros. I went up to Boston to see my sister. She commiserated with my situation to find an experiment on sleep-deprivation at the Beth Israel Hospital. The experiment [...]

Most Dangerous Drivers in Pattaya

I’ve been traveling in Asia over 16 years and have survived a head-on motorcycle crash along the Burma border, a mudslide in Sulawesi, and the chaos of Bangkok traffic. My scariest drive in Thailand was during a blinding rainstorm through the Khao Yai Mountains. Insects smashed into the windscreen and the wipers smeared their bodies [...]