The FCC is supposed to be the organization that protects us from abuses in the communications world. Yet for many years they have been little more than a ‘rubber stamp’ for whatever ‘Big Media’ want to do. From a consumers standpoint the FCC do for newspapers, radio, and television, what the RIAA do for the […]

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I have always been a country music fan as my husband freely tells everyone. I have been a fan of Shania Twain from the beginning. I have always admired her for her awesome personality. She has one that I find is rare in her business.
I was saddened for her when I heard the news that […]

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Here we go, another Indiana Jones movie premiering – and so of course, here is another collection of the previous Indiana Jones movie releases, all in a neat and tidy slipcase, almost exactly the size of a single VHS cassette in slipcase… Please, Grandma, what was VHS; I seem to hear my grandchildren of the […]

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David and Nikki are back. Nikki tells him she has no regrets for getting married like they did. She says she wouldn’t have wanted to miss the adventure it all was.
Jack and Sharon are at the office early when Phyllis and Nick show up early too. They are all so excited that they actually published […]

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Mike goes out to the farm and talks to Meg. He is all dressed up for a meeting. He tells her that he just needs Paul’s signature on the checks. Other than that they don’t need to be around each other.
Katie and Brad wake up and make love. Brad wants to spend the day in […]

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Kayla is going in labor and she is worried because it is too soon. She begs her doctor to stop the contractions. Her doctor tells her that she has to try and calm down but Kayla can’t. Steve is right there with her trying to help.
Hope tells Bo they need to call and tell Stephanie. […]

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Before receiving this album, I had about as much knowledge about the DragonLance series as the next guy on the street. So, in all fairness to those uninitiated I’ll give a brief rundown. After some quick quick researched, it appears that DragonLance is a huge fantasy adventure novel series that takes place in a Dungeons & Dragons type world. Recently […]

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The decision of the California Supreme Court to legalize same sex marriages is equivalent to the Surgeon General making an announcement that smoking cigarettes is beneficial to your health. The decision by the Golden State’s High Court is a blatant and outright offense against the traditional institution of the family. Same sex marriage is a […]

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The Megan Meier story was such a sad one. A poor 13 year old girl committed suicide following taunts online. While Megan thought she was chatting with a 16 year old boy, she was in fact chatting with Lori Drew. Drew used the persona of Josh Evans to first befriend the young teen, and then […]

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Citizens from the North end of Pawley’s Island have been expressing concerns over the possibility of asbestos exposure after a property in the area was demolished. Officials from the Georgetown County and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control responded to the concerns and have addressed the citizens.
According to one official the […]

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Sometimes you find out a marriage is over when you come home and your house is empty except for a note from your soon-to-be former wife. Sometimes it happens after a fight. Sometimes it happens when you find out about an affair.
I found out my marriage will soon be over in a different way–the Campaign […]

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“Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword”, written and drawn by Barry Deutsch, is an independently-produced 57-page comic book that tells the story of Mirka, an 11-year old girl living in the fictional ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Aherville. (”Hereville”, to the goyim.)
This is not a Marvel comic book filled with iron-jawed superheroes, though Mirka yearns […]

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From the Associated Press’ Sex Offender Banned from Son’s Graduation (5/10/08):
“School and law enforcement officials have told a St. Joseph man that he can’t attend his son’s eighth-grade graduation because he is a convicted sex offender and isn’t allowed on school property.
“James Jones, 36, said he may go anyway although the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department […]

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Yesterday, world famous chef  and restaurant owner Wolfgang Puck filed a trademark infringement and unfair competition suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the owners and operators of Wolfgang’s Steakhouse By Wolfgang Zweiner.
The dueling Wolfgang’s seem to have a bit of a checkered relationship. And up until 2005 they apparently had a business relationship involving […]

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Earlier this week the Vatican announced it modified its official website to include documentation of releases in Latin in addition to other languages. It appears there is a resurgence of use for Latin in the current administration of the Catholic Church. While, I have written on the subject multiple times before this, Latin really has […]

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A number of railway workers from the UK are awaiting a decision with regards to compensation payouts for a condition caused by exposure to asbestos, hoping that a ruling will see compensation payouts for pleural plaques revert back to previous payout levels. Around eighty people in the Swindon area are awaiting the results of […]

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A&E have decided to give Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman another chance. According to a press reports, starting on June 25th they will be airing re-runs with new shows appearing a few weeks later.
As you might recall Dog got dumped by the channel when recordings of him making racist statements surfaced. But apparently Chapman has been rehabilitated, […]

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Despite all the publicity that Lifelock continues to do well, a third class action has been filed against them for misleading advertising in West Virginia.
From the PR Newswire release:
Marks & Klein, LLP today filed its third class action lawsuit against LifeLock, Inc., a provider of identity theft protection services, and its CEO Richard “Todd” Davis. […]

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The Parliament building in the European city of Strasbourg has been hit with a health scare, after it was confirmed that there was asbestos present in a number of the technical facility rooms in two recently acquired buildings. This comes just a few years after the building was struck with an outbreak of Legionnaires […]

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Empaths,  Psychopaths — and Polar Bears?
[Having entered retirement after a long teaching career and with fading vision that steers me away from the books that I would enjoy reading and towards the computer and TV station for basic information, I am constantly struck by the casual and even smiling way that […]

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