I overheard a discussion about how television news is covering the Swine Flu.  There are those who automatically believe that television is intentionally trying to blow it up bigger than it is.  There are others who feel that the word definitely needs to get out because it is still spreading.
And there are people who work in television news on both …

You’ve probably already received this in your inbox at some point.  Here’s the whole thing:
Dear Mr. President:
Please find below my suggestion for fixing America ’s economy.
Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander
The money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 40 million people over …

Did you know you can learn a lot about people from their email address?  Maybe, maybe not.
But just for fun, since my primary address is a gmail account, here’s what it’s supposed to reveal about me:
When Gmail rolled out in 2004, you thought you were pretty darn special because someone had invited you to use the free service and you …

For the first time, a major television network has denied President Barack Obama’s request for prime time coverage of a press conference.
Tonight’s 8pm newser on Obama’s first 100 days in office is being carried on ABC, CBS and NBC, but Fox will stick with its regular programming, Lie to Me.  Wonder if they’re trying to make a political statement there!
In …

I wish I could take credit for the headline.  It’s actually from Newsday in Long Island; the headline on the New York Post was my second favorite.
President Obama was said to be furious after learning that a fly-over of the plane that is retitled Air Force One when he is aboard caused a 9/11-esque panic in the Big Apple.  The …

Rush Limbaugh strikes again.  Making a joke about how everything Barack Obama touches seems to fail, he pointed out that following the president’s visit to Mexico, they got Swine Flu.  If it were true that everything Obama touches seems to fail, or if Obama’s approval rating had gotten anywhere near the abyssmal rating of his Republican predecessor, it might have …

The newest Patrick’s Place Poll is asking you which TV game show you think you’d be best at playing for real.
My favorite game show is, as most of you know, The Price is Right.  I liked it a lot better when Bob Barker was host; the new version with Drew Carey doesn’t feel quite the same.  Still, it’s a game …

Harland Sanders really knew how to fry chicken. He was the man who opened the very first Kentucky Fried Chicken way back in 1929 in, appropriately enough, Kentucky.
Back in the early 1990s, the restaurant most of us grew up with suddenly was rebranded as KFC. The speculation was that this was a way to de-ephasize the Fried in …

An Idaho man says a rock formation in his backyard looks like the hand of God, and he’s willing to part with it on eBay to the highest bidder.
Sort of.  Well, not really.
This bizarre story began back in March during Lent, when a rockfall happened in the guy’s backyard.  When the dust settled, a 9-foot-high, 4-feet-wide formation of vertical lines …

If this economy has you thinking about ways to pick up a little extra cash, have I got a Sunday Seven for you!
Here’s a list of 50 side businesses you can start on your own. You’ll have to use this list to answer this week’s question.

First to play last week: Allison of Ruminating Reflections.
(According to the rules, “First to …

I hope you’re having a fun-filled adventure this weekend. Or, a restful weekend with no responsibilities or chores waiting for you.
But I’m glad you stopped by to play the Saturday Six and I hope you have a great day!

First to play last week: Perpstu of Popping Bubbles. Congratulations!
(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the …

Last week, I mentioned the loss of a dear friend. It was a man who I had come to consider a “second dad.”  After his death, his wife, Linda, a columnist, political writer and novelist, whom I’ve quoted many times in the past, wrote the following column as a tribute to her husband, and after reading it, I asked her …

Today, April 22nd, is Earth Day.  Earth Day is a big deal for a lot of people, and I’m glad that there are so many people who claim to give a darn about the environment at least one day a year.
One of the most unlikely ways one might expect to celebrate the annual event would be to watch a game …

Blogs are dead.  They’re on the way out.
At least, that’s what some people are saying now that services like Twitter are all the rage.  The creator of the Wordpress blogging software, the system that powers this blog, has a different thought:
“Blogs will become aggregation points.  They will become our personal hub. Places where we store all our personal media content …

While scanning headlines, I found a story that’s disturbing for two reasons.
The first reason is the headline:
Researcher use brain interface to post to Twitter

Subject/verb agreement, anyone? It should have read, “Researchers use…” or “Researcher uses…” to be correct. And when we’re dealing with a science story, if the most basic rules of grammar seem beyond the writer’s grasp, …

I’ve gotten a few emails recently — I assumed they were spam — alerting me that someone wanted to friend me on some service called MyLife.com.
Funny thing is, I’m not a member on MyLife.com.  I had never even heard of it.
So I visited the site, and discover that it’s apparently an aggregator of profile information from other social networking sites …

When I first heard about the newly-released 17 Again, I couldn’t help thinking that the concept of age swapping has long been done to death.
Back in 1986, Kathleen Turner starred in Peggy Sue Got Married, in which an adult finds herself reliving her high school days.  The following year, there was Like Father, Like Son, in which Dudley Moore and …

Ever have a favorite television show just disappear from the lineup? This is the time of year where that process begins, as networks plan what they will be airing in the fall. And this week, you get the chance to make some of the decisions they’re making!
Here’s the status of the network schedules for the fall, in terms …