ID Series Profiles Mafia Hit Men

NOTHING PERSONAL, from Investigation Discovery, is a six-part series profiling hit men debuting Wednesday, March 9 at 10 PM ET on Investigat...

Iconic Nazi Song Yanked From iTunes as Apple Turns Red

Apple needed to "edit" its iTunes assortment--quickly. Executives at  Apple --yes, the American multinational corporation that des...

Hundreds of Rabbis: Fox Needs to Tune Down Nazi Talk

By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service, from Huffingtonpost.com : Rabbis call for "sanctioning" of Fox's Glenn Beck, other...

Goolsbee: 99ers Need Help ASAP

From the Atom Stack Tribune , By Debra Wilson on January 28, 2011, 11:44 am Note to President: There are 5 million 99ers now. “I don’t think...

A Little Housekeeping Note

Had an email conversation with a reader who didn't realize that most of my posts are continued. You have to click the "read more&qu...

Ebert Gives Hopkins' Demon Priest Three-Star Review

COMING TOMORROW! The Rite BY ROGER EBERT /  January 26, 2011 "The Rite" takes exorcism more seriously than I expected it to. It be...

Michigan's Falling Unemployment: 'The Shrinking Denominator Effect'

Here are the 10 states with the fastest falling unemployment rates, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (via  WSJ ). What's ...

Richard II, Act 3, scene ii, by William Shakespeare

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, So...

Junior Gotti Biopic Moves Forward

Fiore Films, LLC  is trying to keep the publicity machine running for its yet-unnamed John Gotti project by reporting that it has signed wit...

Welcome to America 2011: The 'Forgotten' Jobless

Interesting article that sums up a sobering predicament for the unemployed (of which there are millions and millions): The Forgotten Jobless...

Largest LCN Sweep in Years Occurred Today

And y ou thought getting up this morning for work was tough...just imagine if your alarm clock was beaten by a few hours by the pounding fis...

Greg Scarpa: Mob Informer Who Played Key Role in Historical Civil Rights Case

Readers of this blog know that the Mafia is of major interest to me. I enjoy bringing to light interesting mobsters who did unbelievable thi...

From the Jersey Shore: Spotlight on Snooki

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (born November 23, 1987) is an American reality television personality who appeared on the MTV reality sho...

FDA: Darvocet Recall Due To 'Potentially Fatal Heart Abnormalities'

I do know that this drug is, or was, commonly prescribed. From U.S. Recall News : Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is cooperating with the FDA...

A 99er Rants, Raves

This is not well written, but it gets its message across, loud and clear (by  Pastory Dinary  for Rant Rave: Published Opinion ): Medicine ...

A Tale of Two Mobsters

One is 44 years old and dead after attempting suicide. Craig DePalma died last month after spending eight years in a coma following a faile...

Madoff's Shadow: Even Celebrities Get Screwed Sometimes

The one headshot that doesn't need a caption. An article on the torontosun.com concerns how even the great thespian John Malkovich wa...

Department Of, If Only It Were True: Accelerated Economic Growth "Starting"

There is a bible quote that goes, "of the making of books, there is no end," or something like that. The same could be said about ...