Robert Irvine’s Resume Improbable?
Courtesy of longtime reader Chris L. comes a link to a story in the St. Petersburg Times about Food Network star Robert Irvine, who appears to have fabricated parts of his resume and whose plans for a...
View ArticleI don’t know the guy, but he needs a kidney and I have two, so…
Phil Sheridan: Phils should give Howard what he wants Sheridan’s entire argument is as follows: * The Phillies should lose their arbitration hearing with Ryan Howard on purpose, because… * Fans will...
View ArticleI weep for our language (part 5)…
CNN’s editing is so sloppy that in the link to an AP article on the problems posed by the apostrophe, they put the apostrophe in the wrong place: Curse ‘o the Irish: Apostrophes (link goes to a screen...
View ArticleRobert Irvine Redux.
Brian Montgomery of the St. Petersburg Times dropped me a note this morning to point me to the most recent twist in the Robert Irvine saga. They’ve got statements from FN and Irvine on their site; the...
View Article“What’s a rhubarb?”“It’s a plant.”
So Martha Stewart is making rhubarb desserts today – a fool (for April Fool’s Day, hah) and a grunt. But she said one thing that caught my attention: The leaves are deadly poisonous … They are toxic,...
View ArticleDef Leppard.
My wife has Dancing With the Stars on, and Def Leppard is performing “live” in their studios … except this is clearly the original recording of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” from Hysteria. I’m not shocked...
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I’m not sure who’s doing gymnastics announcing for NBC – Al Trautwig? – but he just dropped this doozy: Chen Yibing doing one of the most difficult things in sports: Winning when everyone thought you...
View ArticleI weep for our language (part 6)…
CNN’s Rob Marciano reports from hard-hit Galveston where some residents road out the storm. Seriously.
View ArticleI weep for our language, part 8.
From what is otherwise a very interesting article on NCAA recruiting rules as they are being applied to fan pages on Facebook: But dozens of Facebook groups are still up in plain site for current...
View ArticleGo Natinals!
So by now you’ve all seen the fact that the Washington franchise in the National League is saving money by only embroidering some letters on the fronts of their uniforms. I just showed my wife the...
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