Ya know, I’ve been seeing SO MUCH coverage about the current crop of Toyota recalls that I have to wonder if there’s maybe an ulterior motive involved here. Like maybe the American press is using this as an opportunity to knock Toyota down a peg and help bolster sales of domestic vehicles from Ford [...]
Wow, I know teen pregnancy is on the rise again in this country, but wtf is up with preteen pregnancy??? I just read that an 11-year-old girl in the Northeast (nothing more specific than that was stated) gave birth to a baby boy last week. The child and her child are both doing fine. [...]
Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address will be tomorrow, and it’s a big one for him. The Democrats are in real trouble with mid-term elections coming up in the fall, so the prez has to find some way to get back on the people’s good side. Polls indicate that his job approval rating [...]
I know I’m a day late and a dollar short here, but I didn’t have a chance to post yesterday. Let me tell you, I was at the gym last night and just about fell off the nordictrac when I heard that the underdog Brown, a Republican, beat heavily favored Martha Coakley for the [...]
Wow, this is just stunning news. Urban Meyer, the wildly successful head coach of the University of Florida football team, announced that he will be stepping away from his duties because of health reasons! Yesterday the news out of Gainesville was that he was resigning his post. But today, the statement has been modified, [...]
The Heene family — the ones who orchestrated the “balloon boy hoax” in an attempt to get signed to a reality show — is in the news again today. The parents, Richard and Mayumi, have been sentenced to jail for their involvement in the scam from a couple months ago. Richard has to serve 90 [...]
Did you hear about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi being attacked by a man at a political rally yesterday? According to the NY Times, Berlusconi was signing autographs at the end of the rally when the attacker, a man with a “history of mental problems” smashed him in the face with a statuette. This left [...]
Why are people up in arms about Obama bowing to the Japanese Emperor on his recent trip to Japan? I am usually the last person to defend the president, but in this case, I don’t see what the big deal is. He was in Japan, so who cares? If he did it while the [...]