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Obama can't afford to look like Dukakis on a bike

2:08 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

Which guy would get your vote? AP Photos Some people are chastising President Obama because he went for a bicycle ride on Martha's Vineyard without wearing a helmet, but those critics, including my colleague Pam Cotter in the Projo Fitness......

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 Tags  Martha's Vineyard   Obama  

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Vineyarders find it hard to keep cool with Barack on The Rock

5:18 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

If you follow the coverage of President Obama's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, you're likely to learn that Vineyarders claim they aren't so impressed by the presence of celebrities. While the rest of us plebeians might shriek and fumble for our......

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 Tags  Martha's Vineyard   Obama  

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The golf gods miss torturing me

3:07 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

The golf gods are devious and cruel. Last week I golfed for the first time this summer, and I played my usual mixed bag of snap hooks, chunked chip shots and underpowered or overpowered putts. But then there were the......

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 Tags  golf  

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Report claims men spend just a year of their lives staring at women

3:00 PM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Jack Perry    Email

New research concludes that men spend a year of their lives checking out women, according to a story published by Telegraph.co.uk. But I say that estimate is way too low. Basing its conclusion on a poll of 3,000 people in......

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 Tags  checking out women  

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Bank robber hands over ID then demands money

9:27 AM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

It's been a while, but we've come across a worthy entry for the Dumb Criminal File. Before robbing an Anchorage bank last week, a robber gave a bank teller his account number and picture ID, according to the Anchorage Daily......

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Cracking the case of the Cape Cod beach sand smugglers

2:43 PM Thu, Aug 06, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

Environmental and tourism officials say they've discovered the real reason Cape Cod's beaches are eroding, and they're taking drastic measures to stop it. Investigators equipped with high-powered vacuums will stop every car leaving Cape Cod via the Bourne and Sagamore......

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 Tags  beach   Cape Cod  

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Growing trend: Popularity of plant hats blossoming

3:12 PM Tue, Aug 04, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

See? It's catching on. In a May post titled "These models prove that a tomato plant hat would offer healthy advantages," we first told you about the growing popularity of hats that can double as a family garden or......

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