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The US is going through the worst drought in half a century. Since we feed the world, this could lead to a global crisis as crop shortages push food prices up. The US supplies half the world’s corn exports and a large amount of its soybeans and wheat. We even sell Texas-grown rice to Asian countries.

In the July 20th edition of the Financial Times, Jack Farchy and Gregory Meyer quote senior commodities trader David Nelson as saying, "I’ve been in the business more than 30 years and this is by far and away the most serious weather issue and supply and demand problem that I have seen by a mile."
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Spying is not only going on at the Olympics (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), it’s RAMPANT.

France is using the internet to check out the competition. Someone from the US cycling team secretly rode the competition course in London for this summer’s Olympic Games with a three-dimensional mapping device so the Americans could build and train on a replica of it.

The US sailing team has bought property near the Olympic competition site in Weymouth, UK in order to study the weather and current conditions before the games.
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I’ve been hobbling around in what I call "das boot" after a recent operation to correct my "Greek foot."

If you’ve ever seen images of Greek statues (or the real thing), your eyes start at the head, then travel down to those fig leaves supplied by the Vatican, then further down to the feet, where you notice that, for some reason, there is always a gap between the big toe and the rest of the toes on the statue’s foot.

I was looking in the full-length mirror on my closet door a few months ago, when I suddenly exclaimed, "I have a Greek foot!" Sure enough, there was a gap between the big toe on my right foot and the rest of the toes.

It wasn’t painful–just weird.
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