Tweet This week in Schadenfreude… From German Schadenfreude, from Schaden (“‘damage, harm’”) + Freude (“‘joy’”) Noun.  A mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others. It is expected that sometime Monday, New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress will turn himself into the NYPD.  Why is Mr. Burress turning himself in?  He is up on possible [...]

Tweet Crimewatch: The Sad and the Pathetic Martin County, Florida Other than having three pro football teams and Disney World do we really need Florida as a state of the union? It just seems that state has more knuckleheads per capita than any other. We have a two-fer from Martin County. On November 4th a [...]

Tweet Well I already had one Thanksgiving related post, that seemed to stay in the news long past the point of being amusing. This one is just about food in a place you don’t really think about food being served– the Death Star. Its one of Eddie Izzard’s brilliant bits, done with Lego visuals. Enjoy [...]

Tweet You wouldn’t know it from scanning your TV Guide, but the FCC mandates that local televisions stations air three hours a week of what is called E/I programming.  The E/I stands for Educational and Informational programming.  The E/I mandate stems from the Children’s Television Act of 1990.  Congress figured that if broadcasters were using [...]

Tweet Ok, you were kind enough to suffer through the bad stuff last week.  I’ll admit the list of good stuff is a mix of comic book inspired characters and sci-fi shows.  Here’s a short list of the stuff I enjoyed in the 1970s and early 1980s: Wonder Woman played by Lynda Carter – Nuff [...]

Tweet Governor Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving.  Her crusade to retain relevance for a possible run in 2012 continued last week as she gave “exclusive” interviews to FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren, Today’s Matt Lauer, and CNN’s Larry King.  Then some killjoy in her state filed an ethics complaint against her [...]

Tweet Cigarettes seem to be in the news again, NPR is doing a three part story this week. So now I have a good reason to post this old ad I found.  Now put aside the horrors of lung cancer and emphysema —yes they are real and then try to take the ad at face [...]

Tweet In the world of criminal enterprise some people think big and others think small. Case in point…take 23 year old David Mlynick of Florida. This wanna be Tony Montana stole a can of TAG body spray from a grocery store. When pursued by the store manager, he “became belligerent” and pulled out a BB [...]

Tweet Continuing on the thoughts from last week’s Watchmen post… I know that a big factor in the improved quality and quantity of superhero films and TV programs has been (1) the advances in CGI effects and (2) the presence of top name talent in front of and behind the camera.  As impressive as Nicholas [...]