February 28th, 2008
The New York Times revealed a big breakthrough in the 2008 presidential election on its Op-Ed pages last evening. The paper began reporting around 9:30 last evening that New York City’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, will not try to leave New York City, unlike his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani.
February 24th, 2008
So much for a Cuban cigar in this lifetime.
February 21st, 2008
Ultra-sensitive technology developed for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), one of several U.S. ultra-secret spy agencies, has been released to the world for all to see.
The NRO, an agency shrouded in secrecy, with less publicly-available information about the organization, its missions, and funding than the National Security Agency (NSA), is often involved in mapping, satellite spying, and other high-tech areas.
February 20th, 2008
Toshiba yesterday surrendered, saying it willingly giving up future sales and profits in the lucrative high-definition DVD market.
In giving up its fight for the HD DVD format as the next-generation HD DVD, Toshiba has conceded that Blu-ray will be the standard format. Blu-ray is backed by Sony, Matsushita Electric (which makes Panasonic-brand products), and five Hollywood studios.
February 20th, 2008
Poor Ted Kennedy, always looking for the next opportunity, but also ways to prove himself loyal to the party.
February 18th, 2008
Words. Nothing but words is what it comes down to from U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) who is cheering about the U.S. Senate passing an apology, tacked on to the Indian Health Bill, that was approved last week.
Mere words, nothing else, yet Brownback thinks the forked tongue the White Man, let alone politicians, are known to have, is going to help restore the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. Don’t make me laugh.
February 12th, 2008
A news alert from The New York Times came in two minutes ago announcing the U.S. Senate had just approved expansion of the federal government’s spy…
February 9th, 2008
There’s a story out of Canada that has me cringing — not for myself, but for the women of the world whom I admire: those with big breasts. The scary thing though, is that women who wear a D cup were three times more likely than women who wear a B or C cup, of actually developing diabetes in later life.
A report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says a Canadian study shows younger women with big breasts run a 68 percent greater chance of acquiring diabetes by middle age than their smaller-breasted peers.
February 6th, 2008
Barack Obama has one of those names that just doesn’t roll off my tongue. No amount of practice will make that happen, it seems. In an effort to try to make his name one of those one the tip of my tongue names, I even tried using the tune from Louie Louie, a classic rock and roll song, written in 1955 by Chuck Berry, singing, Obama, Obama, but what happened next, most likely predictable, especially in this day and age, things changed.
As I sang the self-created lyrics in an effort to get Obama’s name a familiar roll on my tongue, the words, Obama, Obama … yeah, Obama, Obama became, eerily enough, Obama, Obama … Osama, Obama.
February 1st, 2008
Dr. Alex Karev, of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy TV show, is seeking help from real doctors in real life, according to his publicist.
It seems Justin Chambers, the actor who plays Dr. Alex Karev, has checked himself into the UCLA Medical Center “to get help with a pre-existed sleeping disorder,” according to his publicist, Danica Smith.
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