By Cindy Adams New York Post
I once asked Tim Russert how he handles tough questions with what looks to be a friend or, at least, appears to be special access from DC's hotshots. He answered: "They're not friends. They're VIPs I'm interviewing. I do research and prepare my questions. Sometimes they don't answer. Sometimes they won't even come on, like the week I wanted Rumsfeld. He wouldn't do it. But the public knows when they're avoiding issues. And it's my job to confront that. I don't socialize with these people. I work hard. I get up early to do the 'Today' show. I write a book. I raise my kid. I don't party."
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
TODAY
Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.
Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.
Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.
-- Fran Anderson
Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.
Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.
-- Fran Anderson
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
THE WIFE AND BUD LIGHT
A husband and wife are shopping at the supermarket when he picks up a case of Bud Light and sticks it into the cart.
What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife
They're on sale, only $10 for 12 cans', he says.
Put them back. We can't afford it,' says the wife and they carry on shopping.
A few aisles later the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and sticks it into the cart.
What do you think you're doing?' asks the man.
It's my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,' she says.
The man replies... 'SO DOES 12 CANS OF BUD LIGHT AND IT'S HALF THE PRICE!'
What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife
They're on sale, only $10 for 12 cans', he says.
Put them back. We can't afford it,' says the wife and they carry on shopping.
A few aisles later the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and sticks it into the cart.
What do you think you're doing?' asks the man.
It's my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,' she says.
The man replies... 'SO DOES 12 CANS OF BUD LIGHT AND IT'S HALF THE PRICE!'
Thursday, June 12, 2008
TIPS TO INCREASE YOUR ENERGY TODAY
When you wake up, whiff some lemon. It’ll give your brain a swifter wake-up call than coffee. It also reduces stress.
If you’re starting to feel a brain drain around noon – just get outside. The sun gives off blue light which activates areas of the brain responsible for maintaining alertness. It also boosts levels of the happiness hormone serotonin.
So what can you do to fend off that afternoon slump at 3 o’clock? Look at something bright red. Within moments, a flood of arousing brain chemicals will increase your clarity and concentration so you can get your focus back. In a recent U of Texas study, employees who were surround by bright red objects outperformed those who were surrounded by blue or white.
On the way home from work at around 6 PM, if you want to keep your energy up, sing along with the radio. Belting out a tune helps you effortlessly take in more oxygen, and that in turn stimulates the flow of energizing nutrients to your brain.
If you don’t want to wind up glued to the couch at 8 PM when there’s plenty of time left to spend with friends and family -- eat some dark chocolate. It’s a natural stimulant and helps to fuel the nervous system and improve blood flow to the brain.
If you’re starting to feel a brain drain around noon – just get outside. The sun gives off blue light which activates areas of the brain responsible for maintaining alertness. It also boosts levels of the happiness hormone serotonin.
So what can you do to fend off that afternoon slump at 3 o’clock? Look at something bright red. Within moments, a flood of arousing brain chemicals will increase your clarity and concentration so you can get your focus back. In a recent U of Texas study, employees who were surround by bright red objects outperformed those who were surrounded by blue or white.
On the way home from work at around 6 PM, if you want to keep your energy up, sing along with the radio. Belting out a tune helps you effortlessly take in more oxygen, and that in turn stimulates the flow of energizing nutrients to your brain.
If you don’t want to wind up glued to the couch at 8 PM when there’s plenty of time left to spend with friends and family -- eat some dark chocolate. It’s a natural stimulant and helps to fuel the nervous system and improve blood flow to the brain.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
THE POWER OF FAILURE
A few days ago, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling gave a commencement speech at Harvard University, where she talked about failure -- and how powerful it can be:
The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure....
I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.
The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure....
I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.
Words to Live By..
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
Monday, June 9, 2008
WALKING ECONOMY
This guy is walking with his friend. He says to this friend, "I'm a walking economy."
The friend replies "How so?"
"My hair line is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, and both of these together are putting me into a deep depression!"
The friend replies "How so?"
"My hair line is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, and both of these together are putting me into a deep depression!"
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