On January 28th, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano was in the East Room at the White House taking part in the stimulus show. Standing shoulder to shoulder with President Obama and an all-star cast of CEOs representing entities such as Xerox, Kodak, Google, Motorola, and Applied Materials. (Applied is a supplier to the semiconductor industry.) All [...]

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A man millions of Americans consider no better than an unrepentant and un-indicted war criminal, ex-vice President Richard Cheney, is ranting from retirement. According to Mr. Cheney there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it [...]

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Juicy Campus is Leaving the Building! Well, good news travels fast I must say. I just caught word over on facebook that the college site Juicy Campus will be shutting down in the near future. They are taking the site down and leaving cyberspace and for good lets hope. I, for one, am rejoicing. This [...]

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Magic is hip.  A lonely English boy wizard changed the way that children’s literature will forever be viewed.  There was a teenage witch a while back and every male in this country must have eagerly studied the Power of Three.  Now even the Disney Channel is getting in on the act and it’s available on [...]

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I rarely watched Disney movies as a child because my mother was a big fan of the fundamentalist boycott of the company.  She loosened up over time, so I saw most of the Disney movies every child is expected to know.  Yet those early movies I saw over the holidays or on television have always [...]

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I haven’t traveled extensively in my lifetime, but I have been around a little bit, especially in the continental United States.  One of my least favorite places has been all of the Plain States.  The Black Hills were okay and it was fun to finally get out of Kansas, but they are mostly just depressing [...]

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Sharon tells Nick she never meant for him to read that letter. She explains she only wrote it while trying to deal with her feelings so she could move on. She says she should have thrown it into the fire. Nick tells her he had no idea she felt this way. She says to pretend [...]

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As a book reviewer I can honestly admit that I read very few top ten authors. Generally when someone makes it to the lofty NYT list they have lost their edge. Oh, the books are fine, they are quite readable, but lack the needy urgency of a hungry author. In 1974 the relatively unknown John [...]

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Although there is a record population of endangered whooping cranes at their wintering grounds at Aransas NWR in Texas, it has been a “frustrating winter.” The known population of 270 wild cranes – 232 adults and 38 juveniles – is a record number, according to Tom Stehn, the whooping crane coordinator with the U.S. Fish [...]

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An inspector from the Health and Safety Executive in the UK has expressed concern and outrage over a fine of eight thousand GBP, equivalent to nearly eleven thousand dollars, that was meted out to a heating firm that exposed three workers to the potentially deadly substance, asbestos. The inspector said that Lothian Heating Services put [...]

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