In the May 2008, AARP Bulletin, is a story by Blair S. Walker that caught our eye. In this story about Debbie and James Shank are a lot of twists and turns. It seems Debbie, a former Wal-Mart employee, who is now brain-damaged and in a wheelchair after a wreck, was being sued by Wal-Mart for $417,000. In ...

By Matt Veto, mveto@qconline.com     The Cubs have lost five of their last seven contests and there hasn’t been many good things to discuss. With that, I think I’ll take it easy on this blog to collect any random thoughts you might have on the season.   In the meantime, I’ll start a ...

When I first graduated from high school I worked with a guy that was fairly eccentric and always making statements that I considered bizarre. One time the conversation managed to swing towards the idea of funerals and burial vs. cremation! A rather morbid and odd conversation for an eighteen year ...

Have you ever had squirrels in your garage?

Don't have squirrels in your garage.

I finally got a chance to get out and mow the yard today. A fine day, cool, sunny, and with a bit of a breeze. I'd been dreading it, but now I looked forward to it.

First I should mention that my mower has never failed to start

The comedy stylings of Senator Mike Jacobs: From the Dispatch concerning a proposed 12% pay raise for Illinois lawmakers: “I don’t want to say I’m underpaid, but I’m not paid what I’m worth to my district…” Or, as translated by the QCTimes: “I ...

Hello again, idle time!

God, how I've missed you.

For the past two weeks, I've been mired. A couple weekends back, Friend Jason and I made a daytrip to the Maharishi University in Fairfield, IA.

Why? To perform my sworn duty as a journalist, of course, and cover the important, groundbreaking, and

Now that the votes have been counted in Indiana and North Carolina it seems clear that very few voters who otherwise would have voted for Barack Obama were persuaded not to by the controversial views of Obama's former pastor, Rev. Wright. In exit polls a higher percentage of people who said the ...

Don't watch this video if you're squeamish. It displays the worst behavior I've ever seen at a martial arts tournament. Apparently the referee, a 7th degree karate black belt, didn't like the behavior of a 17-year old who was sparring....

I joked to a friend that I could just post the images of the river rising in reverse order instead of taking new pictures as the floodwaters recede, but that wouldn't really fool anyone.Judging simply by the fact that this coffee cup stayed on the serving counter of the Levee Inn through the whole ...