I almost marked the email below a spam. Coming from a tobacco media and sent to my work email address is not something common to see in my inbox. Regular emails that flood my office account usually come from research collaborators and professors whose email addresses end with dot edu. Had it not been for the subject line that had the words “Invitation to participate…”, I would have not opened nor read the contents.

There goes the stupidity of CNN’s Rick Sanchez again! I really dislike the foolish, dumb-acting stunts of Rick Sanchez on his show. Are Sanchez’s viewers kindergartens, that he had to ask questions like, what a 9-meter drop is? Or was his intention to embarrass his guests on live TV?

From just over 100 friends last year, my list of Facebook friends has now reached over 1000. It is amazing to know how everyone seems to own a Facebook account these days. Met someone in a bar? Ask for his/her FB account and you’d be on your way to knowing him or her more. Add all your friends from church. Find your long-lost high school friends and add them in. In a matter of days, you will have a number of followers who will sneak into your every wall post.

When you add someone you have not seen for many years, what do you usually do afterward – say, few seconds after adding?

Who says Pastors could not get a divorce? Huh! Even the most decorated of pastors, like Benny Hinn, can get one. What a slap on the face for Benny Hinn who preaches about the sacrament of marriage being a lifelong union, ending only with the death of one spouse!

Wow, the 2010 County Health Rankings report shows Brookings, South Dakota topping the list on “Health Outcomes” and third on “Health Factors”. This means the Brookings county rated high in most health specific categories:

1. Health Outcomes (how healthy a county is)
- Mortality (death proportions)
- Morbidity (health state)

Do you live in one of America’s happiest cities? The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index released the results from the interviews with more than 353,000 Americans during 2009, and the happiest city in the U.S. is Boulder, Colorado!

Yeah, not a single city from South Dakota!

Scores were based from these six indexes:

If you are the type of person who loves to survey the arena of politics, history, pop-culture, economics and technology coalesced as one, then the book Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes by William J. Bennett is for you. The book tackles the decades between 1988 and 2008 that America had gone through and the obstacles the country still has to face in the coming years.

Ex-Governor Sarah Palin needs to examine her mental capacity. Really. She used to be a governor, but how in the hell she does not even know the meaning of the word ‘retard’ or ‘retarded’?

So when Rush Limbaugh used the word ‘retarded’ it was okay for Sarah Palin, even if Limbaugh intended to hit someone.

When Rahm Emanuel used the word ‘retarded’, Sarah Palin was outraged and went facebooking, asking Obama to fire Rahm.