Beef Jerky NewsRemember last year, when a professor at Wellesley College discovered that the U.S. government had secretly infected scores of Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases medical experiments during the 1940s? among other things, that scandalous revelation prompted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to issue a formal apology to [...]
So I woke up this morning and checked my Mega Millions numbers to see if I had won the $172 million jackpot. Alas, I did not (if I had won, do you think I’d be writing this post?). Darn. I had already planned what I was going to do with my winnings: I was going [...]
Under the auspices of FBI Director Jack Finkler, played by Emmy-award winning actor Richard Schiff, Cooper’s team operates as yet another FBI Behaviour Analysis Unit, while inconspicuously identifying both human and systemic vulnerabilities from the criminal perspective. With an embedded Threat Assessment Task Force Agent Beth Griffith (Janeane Garofalo), an ex-British Special Forces Agent Mick [...]
The first two months of the 2011 “Sunday MLB on TBS” broadcast schedule was announced Monday, starting with a big April 3 day game featuring Josh Hamilton and the defending American League champion Rangers at home against Carl Crawford and a Red Sox team picked by many as their possible pennant successor. The first nine [...]
By Joel Thorman – Editor The latest NCAA basketball rankings are out and there’s no change in the top two spots with Ohio State and Kansas. Meanwhile, K-State joins the top 25 while Mizzou falls out. Mar 7, 2011 – The latest NCAA basketball rankings are out and the AP poll has Ohio State and [...]
National Public Radio is finding itself in the spotlight once again after a hidden camera video today emerged of former executive Ron Schiller blasting Republicans and the Tea Party in a meeting with two members of a fictitious Muslim group. Schiller, then-president of the NPR Foundation and senior vice president for development, calls the Tea [...]
Greenville-based development firm Magnolia Property Group Inc. is in the process of purchasing the site from Spartanburg-based Cobden Properties. Site plans filed with the city showed the 7,000-square-foot center will have 55 parking spaces. the center will be divided into three spaces, including a 3,000-square-foot end space that could be a dentist’s office, another end [...]
LITTLETON – Town Tax Collector Joseph a. Wiggett used his government e-mail account to forward a politically charged e-mail criticizing a proposal to cut federal funding to public broadcasting stations. Wiggett confirmed Monday that he sent the message, which condemns a proposal by Republicans in the House of Representatives to rescind funding for the rest [...]
RANGO Johnny Depp, who is rapidly approaching the level of overexposure, lends his voice to this oddball ’toon about a chameleon wandering into a woebegone Western town plagued by bandits and a mysterious water drought. Gore Verbinski, from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” flicks, directs. KABOOM Gregg Araki (“Mysterious Skin,” “the Doom Generation”) is easily [...]
Welcome to March Madness — the month in which you ski and ride like a mad mofo because the season is going to end soon. I know, Debbie Downer, right? But it’s reality. the ski season will end (at resorts). your powder days are numbered. Don’t worry, sad panda, we’ll celebrate corn-skiing season soon. But [...]
