Predictable?  Yes.
Cheesy?  Yes.
But as I watch “The Sound of Music” –courtesy of our local ABC affiliate– I can’t help but smile and blink back a couple of tears: how is it possible that there are things that just seem to align so perfectly and so happily and just produce a timeless piece of popular music […]

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We are all witnesses to history. OK, it’s just sports history; nobody died, world leaders were not deposed, the dominant paradigm has not been subverted. Regardless, the victory of the 2007 New England Patriots (for henceforth forever shall they be referred) over the Giants this past Saturday night is a literal once-in-a-lifetime event for NFL […]

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Last week, when a laptop computer was stolen from the election commission, it contained the addresses and FULL social security numbers of ALL registered voters in Davidson County. That’s 337 thousand of us.
Make sure and call your credit card companies and put them on a potential fraud alert.
That being said, while I’d like to believe […]

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From Fox News:
PHOENIX — Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then, she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night.
“I use night-vision goggles, and you could see them very clearly” — caravans of men with guns and huge backpacks full of drugs, trudging through […]

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Before Erica Chevillar surfaced as Jim Leyritz’s birthday buddy, she was the “Bikini Teacher” of Boca Raton, Fla. The stunning blond made news last year when she was forced out of her teaching job over sexy shots that surfaced on the Internet.

Source: Jim Leyritz pal was ‘bikini teacher’

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According to this post, the account of Egyptian anti-torture activist Wael Abbas is removed by YouTube again. The previous closure of the account and removal of the clips showing police violence in Egypt caused an uproar and as a result YouTube backed off and restored the account and the video clips. You can see more […]

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Advanced biofuels, more-efficient vehicles, and solar power top the most notable energy stories of 2007.
By Kevin Bullis/ Technology Review
The Rise of BiofuelsCorn ethanol production has
grown so fast, driving up corn prices and driving down the price of
ethanol, that some producers are having trouble breaking even. But an
energy bill signed into law last week that requires […]

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As we all know, the Browns blew their opportunity to clinch a playoff spot last Sunday. Their fate now sits in the hands of Tennessee and Indianapolis. Tennessee loses and we are in. I originally heard that Dungy was going to rest his starters, but the players were angry because they wanted to play. Latest […]

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Ed Stefanski has made his first deal as the Sixers’ GM and I’m left with mixed feelings about it. The Sixers sent Kyle Korver to the Utah Jazz for a first-round draft pick and the disgruntled Gordan Giricek.
I suppose this means Stefanski didn’t see Korver as one of the building blocks for the future. […]

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Just a day after the Utah Jazz reinstated Gordon Giricek for an argument with coach Jerry Sloan, the team traded the Croatian shooting guard to the Philadelphia Sixers for Kyle Korver. The Jazz also threw in a protected first-rounder for Korver.
On Thursday, Giricek, Sloan and Jazz GM Kevin O’Connor met to discuss the situation. The […]

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