New Graffiti Highway art in Centralia PA

Just another ho-hum day of news.. Oh did we mention James Cameron is going to team with Google to mine asteroids? And lots more?

Just another ho-hum day of news.. Oh did we mention James Cameron is going to team with Google to mine asteroids? And lots more?

Parody photo. Real headline and news story: The Vatican is ordering a “crackdown” on “radical” nuns in the United States, you know, the type that have the audacity to not wear habits or challenge bishops. 

Wonder how the crackdown will go. And what exactly occurs during a 21st Century Catholic crackdown is anyone’s guess.. most likely won’t be the same as one that occurred to women in the 1st. Just a hunch.

Happenings from the most happnin' of happnin' planets in the Milky Way

AFP reporting: “Agricultural authorities in northwest China have culled about 95,000 chickens after an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus, state press reported Wednesday”.. Chinese government says “epidemic is now under control”..

Bishop implicated in sex scandal.. Philadelphia man told a jury Wednesday that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia priest who allegedly sexually abused him for years starting in the late 1970s had said a colleague who is now a bishop in West Virginia also had sex with teenage boys..

The hottest March in decades for the United States.. the coldest May coming for the UK? According to forecasters, the coldest in 100 years is coming to the UK, putting summer on hold, and introducing the possibility of biting winds, snow, and cold..

Cops take students’ DNA for murder case—without parental consent..

Neolithic acoustics of Stonehenge revealed by academics..

Marketing early: Kids grow up addicted to online porn sites..

Extreme Universe puzzle deepens..

Space Shuttle Discovery will have a new home: A museum..

Update: Volcanic activity recorded at mountain near Mexico City..

Giving credit where credit is due: Ryan Seacrest says AMERICAN IDOL would never have existed if it was not for Dick Clark..
Reaction from the entertainment world to “world’s oldest teenager’s” death..
Dick Clark: Smooth and unstoppable..
Clark’s fortune was worth millions..

Nurse who is accused of killing mother and kidnapping baby will begin court life..

The Secret Service scandal continues to emerge.. Now news that the prostitution party was pre-planned.. one of the women invovled with the scandal in Columbia speaks.. ABC reporting reports that the Presidential Advance Team did their own advance work for their own personal sexual needs.. They reserved a space large enough for 30 people before traveling to a club.. The woman involved said she has ‘nervous attacks’ and ‘this is really big’..
Indeed it is.

There is something oddly comforting about watching DEAL OR NO DEAL reruns

I wish there was a return to DEAL OR NO DEAL .. where are they now type of show. Where exactly did they spend that $5 grand that the banker gave them…

Reporting at its best..?

HOW UPSETTING. A VERY SERIOUS STORY ABOUT A POTENTIALLY DEADLY VOLCANO NEAR MEXICO CITY, AND ALL THE WASHINGTON POST CAN DO IS MOCK THE SITUATION..

The POST story seems to me aiming to attempt journalism when they write about the Popocatepetl volcano.. until the second sentence when the author writes, “not a good thing”..

The ‘reporting’ continues when the POST says, “It is also a little bit freaky, in a Krakatoa kind of way”.. It also said the “lava dome was growing in the volcano crater like a teenager’s pimple on the eve of prom night”.. 

Regarding how dangerous of a situation it is, the POST doesn’t let us down with yet another bad pun and reference to pop culture: “Authorities raised the alert level to high yellow, or 5 on a scale of 7 (with 7 presumably being something out of a Michael Bay film).”

And you say hardnose journalism is dead! You claim real news is a thing of the past. 
And you know what? You’re right. Apparently real reporting about very serious things is dead. 

Winds of change. The stench it is all the same all over again.

I noticed something tonight.. My area, for those who don’t know, really doesn’t change much. If you travel away for a while and come back you’ll feel like you are stuck in the same age.. which has benefits and negatives all in the same. You know what ground you stand on. But you also don’t reap in the glory that changing of scenery can offer.

Tonight, as the typical early spring breeze blew and the sun set, I noticed something. Maybe it was a revelation—one that I will botch up and not do justice by even typing it out in rambling thought. But the breeze blew, birds’ chirps resounded around me like a chorus of warmth, and the sun finally gave way to the night sky. And I thought: Is earth just a classroom in which people roll through now and then for a lesson? Or instead, are we constantly rolling through the same planet? Are we recycling over and over again on earth, trying to get this right? I don’t know. I don’t even know where my thoughts took me.. 

I think it was one of those moment in time split second glimpse of the thin veil that divides this realm and another. 

I mean, I looked at this sunset with birds singing and wondered if it is the first time this generation of birds were here? Maybe they were just recycled and came back again since they were so good at filling a spring evening with refreshing music. Maybe. And maybe I was here before. And saw that same sunset for centuries. Maybe? Getting a little weird yet?

Think of it.. if your each down into the water and grab a fish, what do you do the fish, besides let it gag and garble to death? You make it see a vision of a whole new world .. even if it is only for seconds. 

I think from time to time, when we have momentary lapses of reason, we chip away at the shroud that keeps us from understanding a higher purpose. Or power. Or … nothing?

Maybe there is nothing.
And maybe there is something.
And maybe there is reincarnation.
And maybe there is everything.

I just don’t know.

I bet you don’t either. Which makes my abhorrently un-understandable diatribe I just typed all the more ‘out there’..

Wanna take a ride!!!??

The voice of Coast to Coast AM since Art Bell in the 1990s through this year has been Ross Mitchell. His deep voice and sometimes frightening delivery during some of the best shows in the past made those best shows even better. But now, he isn’t working for Coast to Coast AM anymore. He now announces for competitor RED EYE RADIO.. 

The end of an era? 

Some already thought George Noory has taken the show to new lows over the past several years since Art Bell left full time and now altogether. And with the absence of Ross Mitchell, those voices have only become louder.

A dad in action! Ayden Morris’ newest ability to leap small couches with a single bound still isn’t injury proof. Thankfully I was there to capture.. Mom caught the image during a video take.. 

Internet freedom in the crosshairs of some very big people around the world

Google’s Sergey Brin says the threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’.. Excellent must read GUARDIAN article..

Internet freedom in the crosshairs of some very big people around the world

Here is how some schools discipline kids with special needs: They shock them 31 times for not taking off a coat.

This story should be untrue..it should be fake. But the tortuous treatment occurred while teachers chuckled at it all. But get this: The school uses shock therapy to “help” the kids..

These stories are not confined to the distant past .. there are now.

Here is how some schools discipline kids with special needs: They shock them 31 times for not taking off a coat.

Girls just wanna have fun.

A website gets a hold of some photos of Hillary Clinton downing a brew and rocking the dance floor. 

This can’t do anything but make you like her.

And it is not at all like the embarrassing situation that the Secret Service agents caused the nation..

What the hell was someone thinking part two: This whole Secret Service prostitution flap comes down to this: $47

What the hell was someone thinking part two: This whole Secret Service prostitution flap comes down to this: $47

Hold the spicy tuna roll.. More than 100 across the nation sick from salmonella linked to yellowfin tuna..

For all my friends and foes that enjoyed this year's mild winter--get ready.. Tick season is knocking on the door and it is going to be a very bad year

Hence: The reason I love cold and snow when it should snow with cold. 

For all my friends and foes that enjoyed this year's mild winter--get ready.. Tick season is knocking on the door and it is going to be a very bad year

STDs among senior citizens is skyrocketing (you heard that right) .. so a new ad campaign trying to convince seniors to use condoms features senior citizens simulating sex acts. Seriously.. I don’t know what disturbs me more.. the idea of the spike in STDs or the commercial itself.. 

Yep. This is where it happened.

Big embarrassment for United States as Secret Service agents charged with protecting President in Columbia end up in prostitution scandal.. the scandal this weekend has also spread to the military.. government in damage control.. More on the Secret Service sex bust and more on the military involvement with the matter.. Officials admitting it is an embarassment to the United States.. 

Obligatory question: What the hell were they thinking!? 

Who says you can't teach an old baboon new tricks

A new study shows they can learn the shape of letters. 

Interesting stuff, to say the least..

Who says you can't teach an old baboon new tricks

Sarah Silverman never is unable to think of a new way to shake up the world of shock comedy. She works it blue all the time… 

The latest: She tweeted photos of a before and after abortion photos—of course the joke was on people who believed it, since the actual photo of her “pregnant” was her bloated after eating a burrito..

Weather fans or watchers out there, you already probably know that yesterday was quite tragic for lots of people, including a hospital in Iowa where a tornado struck.. But what amazed me about this day is the number of storm chasers that were live streaming online and for big networks covering the matter. In one instance, the networks said “don’t risk your life,” bla bla bla.. and then in another instance they gave 15 minutes or so of fame to the said weather chaser who caught a glimpse of the massive storm of death. So what are you thoughts? Are we encouraging this activity to a detriment, or is it just the next phase of how events weatherwise will get covered?