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Sugar: Does It Make You Dumb?
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree “Sugar in the morning/Sugar in the evening/Sugar at suppertime…” My late father would often burst into those lyrics from the 1958 McGuire Sisters hit “Sugartime.” Little did he know it was a recipe for asking, “Morning — that’s the one where the sun is RISING, right?” Yes, a new UCLA study (published in the May 15 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology) is the first to show how a diet ...
Should College Football Be Abolished?
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Does Buzz Bissinger score a touchdown with you, or do you find him personally foul? The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (author of the 1988 bestseller and cautionary tale “Friday Night Lights”) has stirred up quite a firestorm with a recent Wall Street Journal article declaring “Why College Football Should Be Banned.” Yes, he advocates a “scorched earth, cold turkey” approach, rather than attempts to rein in abuses and nudge athletics into the ...
Mother’s Day: No Ifs, Ands Or Buts
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree “Mom, I love you, BUT…” I wonder how many times a day that phrase (more ominous than heartwarming) is uttered in this great land. Certainly there is a lot to be said for putting things in perspective, softening the blow of unsolicited advice and practicing diplomacy — but in too many families the love and the “but” seem inextricably entwined, always leaving the mother feeling “buttered up” and anxiously waiting for ...
Older Drivers: Should They Be Tested?
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Some call it profiling. Some call it discrimination. Some call it stereotyping. Some call it “Grandma, you can’t keep ripping off my metropolitan phonebook in order to see over the steering wheel!” Whatever one’s gut reaction to the issue of older drivers, the aging of the vast Baby Boom generation demands that the subject be discussed, in order to achieve a balance between road safety and harmonious, productive “golden years.” Sadly, ...
Rethinking “Rethinking Heaven”
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree The cover story in the April 16 Time magazine (“Rethinking Heaven”) reveals that the 85 percent of Americans who believe in an afterlife are not one monolithic entity. And their differing perspectives affect their lifestyles. Some take a “traditional” view and see this ol’ sinful world as something to tolerate, pending the reward of a far-away ethereal eternity. Their focus is on the future. The extreme members of this group can ...
A Naked Face In The Crowd
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
A concerned mother makes an emergency trip to her child’s school without applying lipstick or mascara. A conscientious junior executive misses her manicure and hairstyling appointments to meet a grueling deadline. Sadly, these are among the women whom polite society views with amusement, scorn or disgust. These are the sort of women championed by Molly Barker and Caitlin Boyle, two ladies from Charlotte, North Carolina, who brainstormed The Naked Face Project. For two months these ...
Titanic: 100 Years And Still Fascinating
By Danny Tyree on Friday, March 30th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree My fascination with the RMS Titanic began on September 9, 1966. That’s when the premiere of the short-lived ABC science fiction series “The Time Tunnel” plunged its heroes into the middle of that maritime disaster. “The Time Tunnel” has long since slid into obscurity; but the public’s fascination with the sinking of the luxury vessel continues, buoyed by the fact that the 100th anniversary of the event is coming up April ...
Home Alone: The Trend, Not The Movie
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Paradox of the week: if you live alone, you’re not alone. According to “Going Solo: The Extraordinary And Surprising Appeal of Living Alone,” by Eric Klineberg, PhD, more than 50 percent of American adults are single (up from 22 percent in 1950), and one in seven adults lives alone. Granted, the statistics are muddied by the fact that some survey respondents think they’re living alone when they’re really not. Take your ...
Doonesbury, Abortion And Stuff Like That
By Danny Tyree on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Sometimes something said in passing by a person-on-the-street interviewee sticks in my mind. Such is the case of a so-called “economic conservative” who said he wasn’t really concerned about abortion “and stuff like that” in the GOP primaries. Okay, I know that he meant to say “and other hot button social issues,” but his choice of phrasing says a lot about the indifference and seared consciences in our society. What other ...
Museum of Government Waste
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree The legendary $435 Pentagon hammer may soon have a new home. According to The Daily Caller, filmmakers Ellen and Jim Hubbard have devoted five years to working on a documentary in which they facetiously try to navigate the byzantine procedures of Congress and obtain “earmark” funding for a proposed Museum of Government Waste. The success or failure of that secret-camera endeavor will be revealed when the film is released; but either ...