A close look at several tips on many things

A good tip is so hard to get these days. Ask any Madoff ex-investor. By the way, wish me luck this evening because the lottery draw will be on then - I bought two tickets in Lotto Nigeria for a jackpot equivalent of $400 Grand. That said, some interesting items were seen on the Web recently...

Do you like cooking, especially making cookies? Well, here is a cookie baking tip for you: keep the butter cold to the touch in order to prevent breaking up the emulsion and freeze the cookies before baking to preserve the emulsion that makes the cookies oh so deliciously sharp edged and tasty!

That reminds me of a cooking tip that I got from the legendary Ms. Julia Childs: to keep your tomato red, never cover the pot completely - the color goes away and the fruit or paste darkens just by cutting off the oxygen supply.

Is America's political 'nobility' undemocratic because Caroline Kennedy wants to use her last name to muscle into reckoning to replace Senator Hillary Clinton, against a field of alternatives with better exposure and deeper political experience?

In one word, yes... I am reminded of the Nigerian case of 'Colleagracy', in which colleagues of politicians and civil servants from the 1960's secretly appoint or maintain each other's brother, relative or children to fill posts just solely by name recognition, whether they are qualified or not, whether performing on the job or not.

Lumigan just got reformulated as Latisse, thus getting FDA approval to turn the glaucoma medication into an eyelash enhancer!

Hmmmm...I was just wondering what would happen if some of that Latisse got spilled on a balding head or a hairless chest....

Would there be a vigorous rejuvenation of the bald batch in four months or a hasty mop up of an overstimulated pate in ten seconds? Ha-ha...

Let's all pray for Evander Holyfield as he goes for the WBA boxing belt today against Nikolai Valuev.

For crying out loud, even when he was mad enough at the unique and classy Lennox Lewis for a personal insult about his rolling stone kind of fatherhood, he could only manage a draw as a relatively young man.

Not a pretty sight at all: what would he look like after this fight at 46? Where would he be and what would he have achieved, apart from getting a highly likely whooping from a thumping giant and $600 Grand - even though he totally demystified Mike Tyson's invisibility for the record?

Anyway, was that not what they said about David and Goliath? The only problem, of course, being that Holyfield is no young David and Valuev is definitely as gigantic as Goliath, red meat craving and all...

But then again, $500,000 per annum in child support payments would be quite a huge motivation not to quit for any veteran athlete, let alone the prospect of a historic fifth world boxing title at an epic age, I think...


UPDATE - Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 3:00 PM:

Holyfield lost on points narrowly to Valuev. There will be a post on the fight later on.