The hero of the Hudson Plane Ditch was seen today as just a passenger on a plane. But NOT on his employer's airline, US Airways. No, the villain was flying Virgin America!: Spotted: Capt Sully on Virgin America Flight 11 from JFK to SFO this morning. Was sitting in seat 13F until he got bumped to fi...

As US Air Captain Chesley Sullenberger III makes the media rounds, New York magazine wonders if the hero of Flight 1549 is "The Last of His Kind"--the experienced, unflappable pilot who can get handle any situation, including a ditching in the Hudson River. Over the course of 2,500 words, writer Rob...

newVideoPlayer("/lauer_obamadiss_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Matt Lauer is supposed to interview Barack Obama for the Superbowl pre-game show any minute now. He could use a good chat following his terrible week of endless dissing. First hero pilot Chesley Sullenberg dumped the NBC Today show host for...

Today we continue our series on heroes. Last time we talked about what makes a hero a hero. ___ ___ Captain Chesley Sullenberger (Sully as we’ve come to know him) inspired this series. He is, of course, the pilot who landed his plane in the Hudson River to ultimately save over 150 lives. But w...

Yeah, you read the headline right According to the British paper the Telegraph,  an entire Al Qaeda  cell in Algeria was killed  by the plague. If this is true this is scary as hell and this comes on the heels of us closing  Guantanamo Bay (which I favor) and the discussions we’re having ...

Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, America's most popular man, was all set to make his big national television debut on the Today show this morning. Then he pulled out. Stop restraining our Sully!: Sullenberger had been scheduled to give his first public interview on Monday morning to NBC "Tod...