If you follow a strict diet for a few months, flaunting six packs abs is no big deal.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.