I’m in the USA for the first time - just had my first american breakfast (burp) which also included sightings of Linda Gray and Larry Hagman - you know that you’re in Texas when… Before yesterday, I hadn’t been on a plane for more than 4 hours and never been on anything bigge...

New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, in his colorful article in Annals of Business, “Not Quite Cricket,� takes you inside the world of Robert Allen Stanford Antigua's Cricket Magnate and $8 billion Ponzi Scam artist - or as we like to call him, the answer to the question, What would the difference ...

Our beloved Chuck Norris who you might know as the karate fighting, cowboy hat wearing, roundhouse kicking, orange hairing and all around bad ass mother is 69 today! On behalf of everyone at Giz,......

Holy Cow! If we were to bestow our "Ignorant Dolt of the Week" , on Chuck Norris, Glenn Beck, and the gang at Restore The Republic , we would have to retire it. Or, otherwise, endure crippled fingers, being fed intraveniously, while writing a never-ending post. Norris, in his "I may run for presiden...

There may be no better man to target for cheap swipes than Houston’s Michael Bourn, right. Welcome back to the 2009 RotoRob MLB Draft Kit. Over the next few weeks, we will be rolling out cheat sheets with analysis, essays and the classic Top 10 Lists that Fantasy Owners Always Wanted But Were ...

A few nights ago, while rotting with a watery Bombay and tonic in the crypt-like back corner of the dreadfully skeevy Lit Lounge, a musician friend went on a small tirade about hearing a feature on M. Ward on public radio that day. Much to my amusement — as this friend doesn't follow "indie" m...

From The Chicago Tribune's Howard Witt: Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, carsSuit says cops force motorists, largely black, to forfeit cash and cars—or be charged with trumped-up crimesBy Howard Witt Tribune correspondentMarch 10, 2009 TENAHA, Texas— You can drive into ...

Is there an Evan Longoria in the 2009 Rookie Class? The 2009 RotoRob MLB Draft Kit continues today as we kick off the RotoRob Top 10 Lists of Lists that Fantasy Owners always Wanted, but were Afraid to Ask For with the RotoRob debut of our newest voice, Todd Habiger, who brings us the Top 10 rookies...

Just as you believe that maybe, perhaps, the tide is turning and the government that is charged with the responsibility and care of those most in need — the severely mentally ill who are hospitalized — actually “gets” it, you read a story like this one. Raquel Padilla was dis...

From the ‘and you thought he was a little off ‘ department, Chuck Norris seems to have started believing he is Walker, Texas Ranger. No, Conan O’Brian is not in on the joke – there appears to be no joke. from WorldNetDaily I may run for president of Texas On Glenn Beck’s ra...