I have to say, I feel sorry for Martha Stewart – – I also have to say that the media is just way too excited about her going behind bars today. Somehow, she snuck in underneath the media’s nose this morning, and I think that is great. They’ve been camped out there all week like a bunch of rubberneckers. The news has been full of women who have been to that prison, where only 5% of the population are awhite collar criminals. The rest of them are narcotics and violent crimes. Yea, Martha broke the law. Yea, she needs to […]

It’s debate night. I’ve been looking forward to this throughout this entire election process — they are as exciting to me as the Super Bowl, believe it or not. Hmm…unless the Packers are in the Super Bowl, then the debates would run a VERY close second . . but indeed, second. Go ahead, play it – you know you wanna I was finally able to get my coffee fix yesterday – oh! the panic! I wonder if this is how heroin addicts feel? UG called me after reading my post . . worried that perhaps I needed hospitilization because of […]

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After a night of truly enjoying myself watching the President’s remarks at the Convention (Right Voices has the transcript of the speech) – and while my excitement is building to astronomic proportions over the anticipation of seeing him speak tomorrow — in person – – front row seats!!! . . . . On a more serious and impending note – – my thoughts tonight are with the people of Florida. I saw the picture of Frances on Drudge: … and my first thought was – – Holy hell! That thing is going to swallow Florida! My hope tonight is that […]

Always thought this case was a little bit flimsy. Apparently it was: Prosecutors will file a motion this afternoon to dismiss the sexual assault charge against Kobe Bryant, according to sources familiar with the case. Motion to Dismiss

Man Dodges Suicide Pact With Bride An Iranian man who struck a suicide pact with his new bride over their guilt for having pre-marital sex is being held by police after he backed out on his side of the bargain, judiciary officials said on Sunday. The couple, who were not named, had been married for just two days when, “due to their guilty consciences for having illicit sexual relations, they decided to kill each other at the same time,” the official said. The man helped to hang his wife but then changed his mind about killing himself and handed himself […]

Want a new face? Researchers are studying antirejection drugs as a recent interest in hand transplants increases the possibility that a face transplant could be conducted soon. If only they’d come up with a drug that would stop people from rejecting their current face – so that the face transplant wouldn’t be necessary to begin with! I would really hope that face transplants would be used in the extreme event of severe burns, disfigurement, birth defects, etc. Not that someday I wake up and want to look like Selma Hayek. I wonder if she’d consent to me having her face? […]

Got AOL? Getting TONS of spam? Here’s why: US Charges AOL Worker Sold Customer List for Spam U.S. investigators said on Wednesday they had arrested an America Online employee and a Las Vegas marketer for stealing the Internet provider’s customer list and selling it to a purveyor of “spam” e-mail. AOL members were flooded with millions of unwanted messages because of the scheme, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. district court in New York. Although – upon first reading of the title of the article (above)…they make it sound like the AOL worker sold the customer list for […]

Very exciting developments for space travel enthusiasts. Today, out in the Mohave Desert, a company called Scaled Composites, Inc. is launching what is being billed as the first “Private Manned Space Program”. The built a passenger-carrying sub-orbital hybrid space ship that will carry up to three people into space and return them safely to Earth. This approach would allow lofting a three-person single-stage fully reusable spaceship up to 112 miles (180 kilometers), giving those onboard some five minutes of microgravity. In addition, two-stage expendable boosters could be lobbed skyward from the aircraft, placing micro-satellite payloads of up to 80 pounds […]

Google files for $2.7 billion IPO Google, the world’s number one Web search provider, has filed with U.S. regulators to become a publicly listed company and sell as much as $2.7 billion (1.5 billion pounds) in stock in a widely expected initial public offering. Mountain View, California-based Google said it would seek to list on either the Nasdaq market or the New York Stock Exchange. Hey – I’m all for capitalism and all that. But I do hope that the Google that I know and love doesn’t change whichever wind the stockholders happen to be blowing. *sigh*