• Hot Off The Presses

    Cramer Vs Stewart In the Sun-Times

    Jon Stewart puts spotlight on CNBC and meltdown :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Television NEW YORK — The feud between Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Jim Cramer has been good for laughs — and ratings — but has also raised the serious question of whether the experts at TV’s No. 1 financial news network should have seen the meltdown coming and warned the public.

  • Hot Off The Presses - Twitter

    U.S. ship sprays Chinese with fire hose (Chinese strip to skivvies)

    Why in the world did the Trib (and also the Sun-Times) bury the lede on the story about the Chinese naval and merchant vessels harassing a US Navy ship? U.S. ship sprays Chinese with fire hose :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World The USNS Impeccable sprayed one ship with water from fire hoses to force it away. Despite the force of the water, Chinese crew members stripped to their underwear and continued closing within 25 feet, the Defense Department said. A somewhat Pythonesque scenario suggested itself to me.

  • Second Life

    Reclaiming The Color Pink

    March 7, 2009 (#87)- The Girls vs. Boys Show Originally aired March 22, 2008 Pink Meghan Vigeant – Independent producer, USA There’s no color more polarizing than pink. Some girls love it, some girls hate it. Some boys outwardly despise it, while secretly wishing they could wear it. There’s nothing lukewarm about pink. – Ibid I’m of the opinion that pink stinks. I’ve always hated the color, but many women (and Second Life female avatars) are really into pink. I’ve collected a fairly large wardrobe on Second Life, mostly by picking up free items in online treasure hunts, and recently…

  • Dear Mom - Home Improvement - Today

    Time and Doing Things

    March 7 March is the homeowner’s month. It is time to put away the snow shovel, but not yet time to get out the lawnmower. For the first time in… probably a year or more, the dining room table is cleared off as a friend is coming over so David can take a look at his laptop. The stuff that was on there was a mish-mosh of things that Timmy sent me from Mom’s house; I’ve successfully ignored them all this time because I’d unpacked them with the vague idea of organizing, sorting, and tossing junk and only got 3/4…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah...

    Utah Set to Boost Porn Ranking Naturally

    The Utah Legislature, after Viagrousvigorous debate, passed a bill enabling naturopaths to prescribe testosterone. Not only is Utah #1 in the nation for paying for porn that Internets-savvy libruls get for free, they’s gonna be naturally manly, tremendously organic men. Must report this to the General… Male-hormone bill clears Senate – Salt Lake Tribune A bill allowing naturopathic physicians to prescribe testosterone to their male patients cleared its last legislative hurdle Thursday. After a vigorous debate, HB108 — sponsored by Rep. Douglas Aagard, R-Kaysville, and Sen. Dennis Stowell, R-Parowan — passed the Senate 19-6. Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, led the…

  • Radio - The Life of Riley

    Sunday: Radio Daze

    We returned home from Kona to Chicago yesterday, taking an overnight flight so that we arrived yesterday morning at about 530AM. The last time I took a red-eye, I went straight to bed and was wide awake all night, so David advised me to stay up all day and not even nap until 9PM. Well, I made it to about noon, kept sliding sideways on the couch, and finally gave up and went upstairs. I did turn on the radio, though, thinking that I’d only “nap” for a couple of hours and “listen” to WBEZ’s Sunday programming. Hah. Well, I…