An interactive map published by the NY Times allows you to find the immigrants, all the way back to 1880, just before my own ancestors came over from various parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The data is broken down into ten-year intervals and various countries and regions. Now that the presiden...

With all the news about banks getting bailed out or bought out, due to the crisis in the lending industry, this bit of news comes as a pleasant surprise. Two football players, one active and one retired, have each been helping to create a new bank. Vincent “Bo” Jackson, who played profes...

I’m in Maine, sitting next to a very cold, very beautiful ocean. NH’s pissed off @ MA- for trying to force us to collect sales taxes. Non religious people like living in NH- where living free or dying is preferred. ANOTHER reason I love NH! Speaking of MA- where the money goes during the...

Ouch: the President acted to change the way we treat terrorists before fully informing himself on the consequences of that action. Obama made time for a special reception in honor of himself last week after he was coronated- how special… At this inauguration, even movers and shakers waited in ...

While the British paper The Sun jumps to the conclusion that there’s life on Mars, NASA is expected to confirm today that methane, which may be produced biologically, has been detected in the Martian atmosphere. Methane is also known to come from volcanos, but Mars has none that are active. NA...

The BIG holiday is over, for this year. My family celebrates it TODAY, because yesterday we helped families who had been without power get settled back into their freshly lit homes. It takes a village, they say, to do this. I believe that. One particular family had nothing; they had been staying at ...

Will President Bush pardon the Border Control Agents? Layaway Plans are making a comeback. Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey cautions Obama. Defensive medicine costs MA 1.4 BILLION a yr! And, 1/2 of our primary care doctors want to quit… Interesting. Friedman, whose most recent book is “Hot, Flat,...

This is the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar... So naturally, in Vietnam, this means hamsters are popular... No, I don't know why either... But they are... To make it even more interesting, the BBC (because they are the stylish news outlet of choice) says they are popular because of "a co...

Meet Bao Xishun, also known as Mr. Pipe Dick. All right, so this guy is 7 feet 9 inches tall. And then he marries a woman who is only 5 feet 6 inches tall. I saw this piece of news......