By now, most Americans are intimately familiar with the “credit crisis” that’s affected our lives in a myriad of ways, from losses on the stock market to difficulty in getting a loan. Lately I’ve been passively listening to the Clark Howard Show on local radio, a talk show about money management, consumer protection and [...]

Headline on CNN just now: “What if a hurricane hits… gas skyrockets to $10 a gallon and everything collapses? CNN investigates tonight, 8 ET.” I dunno…I’ll shoot myself? The media in this country is enough to inspire suicide as it is.

“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper. Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that [...]

(Although maybe it should.)
Detroit Mayor Charged in Sex Affair
Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit, and his mistress former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty have been charged this morning with a combined 12 counts of felony perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. They both have until 7 a.m. tomorrow to turn themselves in or they [...]

Patti Davis, special commentator to Newsweek magazine, has a darkly humorous rant available on MSNBC today about the TSA’s latest invention to combat terrorists in airports: “Behavior Detection Officers.” These specially-trained security guards’ sole duty will be to scrutinize the facial expressions of airport patrons, looking for tiny outward signs that passengers may be [...]

Some 40 percent of Americans would curb their driving habits if retail gasoline prices shot up to $3.50 a gallon, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Reuters
Did Reuters go back in time to 1997 so they could write this story? In case you’ve forgotten, America, gas already costs that much in some states [...]

I awoke today to discover another grim reminder in the local newspaper — a reminder of just how inexplicably dangerous it is to get behind the wheel in Florida.
Stephen Curtis Pierce, age 54, was backing out of his driveway on Anton Court, when he exited his Toyota Avalon while it was still in reverse around [...]

Apparently there have been some “hijinks” at the local EB Games store where I usually shop — the manager of the store embezzled between $50,000 and $70,000 from the company back in 2005. Tasked with making the nightly cash deposits for the store, he routinely went to Kinko’s instead, where he used pink paper [...]

Okay, so I manufactured the so-called “study” sent up by the title of this post. But it’s the natural conclusion for one to draw after reading this article on my most-loathed cable news website, MSNBC.com.
The headline reads “TV can be bad for diabetic children.” The tagline? “Snacking, less exercise linked to increases [...]

Read this, then come back. I’ll be waiting.
School Board Ponders Student’s Counter-Strike Map of His School
Finished? Okay.
I remember back in the day, both Chief Oddball and Reaper made maps of our high school in Duke Nukem 3D’s Build level editor. Back then, we thought it was cool to be able to play a game we [...]