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Country singer Shania Twain carried the Olympic torch in arctic conditions in her childhood hometown on New Year’s Day, as the torch relay continued ahead of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver. Twain carried the torch for 400 meters and lit a cauldr...[Read on]

Daily Dose of Inspiration and Adventure!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~Mark Twai...[Read on]

Sarah Palin Invokes World’s Least Creative Excuse to Explain Tour Suspension

Writing on Facebook, Governor Sarah Palin (R-the Internet), argued that “reports of tour demise are greatly exaggerated,” referring to a Real Clear Politics scoop that Palin’s One Nation cross-country publicity stunt has been summarily truncated. We...[Read on]

Oprah Charmed by Homeless Man

• A homeless man in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District charmed Oprah into slipping him $100 cash through her limo window over the weekend. [NY Post] • General Motors reported its largest quarterly profit in 11 years at $2 billion, almost equal to its ...[Read on]

Tina Fey Accepts the Mark Twain Prize

It was a Tina Fey lovefest on PBS on Sunday night. If you missed it, here’s her acceptance speech. May Elizabeth Williams at Salon notes that her most cutting edge stuff was left out of the show. Two great lines from Tina: “Only in com...[Read on]

Mississippi River Project: Flow in flux

(Ed. Note: Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.) Leaving St. Louis was sort of hard: spending time with A...[Read on]

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